You may have learned the extremely common greeting Are you OK? (“How are you?”) in Italian, but what if you want to ask what someone is doing? In this case you can use the following expression:
what are you going to do?
what are you going to do?
what are you doing…? Mutations what are you doing…? and the more formal What do you do…? Depending on the context, can mean one of two things:
- What do you do (usually, in general)
- what are you doing? (at this particular moment)
This is because Italians often use the present tense where English speakers use the present continuous (-ing). For this week’s phrase, what are you doing? best translated as what are you doing? or what are you going to do? Because the speaker wants to know what the other person is doing now or in the near future.
what are you doing?
what are you doing? / what are you going to do? (immediately)
What are you going to do this summer?
What are you going to do this summer? (in the near future)
Note that consecutive What are you doing (pretty)? (ignite. What are you doing?) can also be used, but only in the moment.
beautiful is a common expression that literally means “…that’s nice/interesting”. We don’t really have an exact equivalent in English, but it’s often used in Italian to add a friendly tone to questions.Here are some other example phrases where beautiful Appear:
- So what? = How is this going? (ignite. what good thing are you going to tell me?)
- Where are you going? = Where are you going? / Where are you going? (Literally. Where are you doing this well?)
- What’s so good about TV shows? = Are they showing anything good on TV? (Light up. What good thing are they showing on TV?)
- what did you do today? = Did you do anything interesting today? (Light on. What good did you do today?)
can change belo with various adjectives, including ugly (bad), interesting (interesting), new (new), different (different) and many more.
I don’t do anything interesting.
I don’t do anything interesting.
