作啥

Chinese

		to regard as; to take (somebody) for; to do to regard as; to take (somebody) for; to do; to make	(dialect) what
simp. and trad. (作啥)		作	啥

Etymology

Checked variant of 做啥 (zuòshá).

Pronunciation

• Wu (Suzhou, Wugniu): ⁷tsoq ⁵sa

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• Wu
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁷tsoq ⁵sa
    • MiniDict: tsoh^入 sa^去
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡soʔ⁴³ sɑ⁵²³/

Verb

作啥

1. (Suzhounese) what is [someone] doing; what is going on

Adverb

作啥

1. (Suzhounese) why; what for

   • 倷到上海去作啥？ [Suzhounese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 20

     ⁶ne ⁵tau ⁶zaon-he₃ ⁵chi ⁷tsoq ⁵sa [Wugniu]

     Why are you going to Shanghai?

Synonyms

• 幹嗎／干吗 (gànmá)