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- IPA(key): [ˈʂto zə] (phonetic respelling: што́ за)
что́ за • (štó za)
- what, what kind of, what sort of
- what a/an [insert noun]
- Что́ за is one of only two environments in Russian in which a preposition can take a nominative argument; the other is в.