You are running together small sentences of Japanese.
In Japanese, there are 5 vowels. A, I, U, E, O.
- A as in Apple
- I as in tEEth,
- U as in bOOth
- E as in bAY
- O as in bOAt
Nani desu ka. (where the i of nani is silent, and the u of desu is not pronounced.)
Nani = what
Desu = is a to be verb. The sentence structure is such and such IS
Ka = is a question marker.
Nan desu ka = Is that so?
Oh, is that so? - Cool, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the explanation! :)
Thanks for this info @builderofcastles; are you Japanese, or did you study it? :-)
Cg
I studied it.