No. 32 in Armenian
ինչ
"Ինչ" means "what" in English.
In a sentence
Ինչ ես անում հիմա։
What are you doing now?
The word 'ինչ' is used as an interrogative pronoun to ask a question about an action or object.
Ես չեմ հասկանա, թե ինչու դա արեց։
I don't understand why they did that.
The word 'ինչու' is derived from 'ինչ' and is used to ask questions concerning reasons or causes.
Նա ասաց ինձ, թե ինչ էր գրել։
They told me what they had written.
Here, 'ինչ' is acting as a content interrogative to introduce the nature of a subject in indirect speech.
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