what's new

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

what's new (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) The latest developments in a particular situation or a person's life.

   We send out a newsletter to our clients every week to tell them what's new in the company.

Translations

the latest developments in a particular situation or a person's life

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kuulumiset (fi) pl
• French: nouveautés (fr) f pl
• Galician: novidades f pl
• Hungarian: újdonság (hu), (…hogy) mi újság (van)
• Macedonian: што има ново (što ima novo), што е ново (što e novo)
• Portuguese: novidades (pt) f, o que há de novo
• Spanish: novedades (es) f pl

Phrase

what's new?

1. (informal) An informal greeting asking the other person what has recently happened in their life. A typical response might be "Not much; you?". The greeting is not always literal and may just be used to say hello.

   Synonyms: hello, hi, what's up

2. (rhetorical question, idiomatic) A rhetorical request for some real news, on hearing a report that was not news because it represents a continuing predictable and unsatisfactory situation.

   Synonym: what else is new

   You're still having problems with that idiot you employed last year? So, what's new?

Translations

informal greeting asking what has happened recently

• Abkhaz: иҟеи (iqʼej)
• Azerbaijani: nə var, nə yox
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最近怎麼樣？／最近怎么样？ (zuìjìn zěnmeyàng?)

• Danish: noget nyt?
• Finnish: mitä uutta?, mitä kuuluu? (fi)
• French: quoi de neuf? (fr)
• Galician: que hai de novo?
• German: was gibt's Neues?
• Greek: τι νέα; (ti néa?)
• Hungarian: mi újság? (hu), mi újság van?, mi a helyzet?
• Irish: cén scéal?
• Italian: novita?
• Japanese: お変わりありませんか？ (o-kawari arimasen ka?), (informal) 最近、何かあった？ (saikin, nani-ka atta?)
• Korean: 별일없이 지내세요? (byeorireopsi jinaeseyo?) (polite), 별일 없니? (byeoril eomni?) (casual)
• Lithuanian: kas naujo?
• Macanese: qui nova?
• Persian: چه خبر؟
• Polish: co nowego?
• Portuguese: quais as novas?, quais as novidades?
• Russian: что но́вого? (što nóvovo?)
• Spanish: ¿qué pasa?, ¿qué te cuentas?, ¿qué es de tu vida?, ¿quihubo?

implies that the situation is and always has been unsatisfactory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: onko mitään uutta
• Portuguese: qual a novidade?, qual é a novidade?, qual que é a novidade?

Further reading

• “what*new”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.