Exclamations With wat

1. Wat + noun
The shortest form has no verb. Use e, en or eng before the noun, often with an adjective:

• Wat en Dag! (What a day!)
• Wat e prächtegt Wieder! (What gorgeous weather!)
• Wat eng ëmständlech Prozedur! (What a complicated procedure!)

The article and adjective take their usual endings: e prächtegt Wieder is neuter, see adjective endings neuter -t.

2. Wat + verb + subject
For a full sentence, the verb comes right after wat and the subject follows, like in a question:

• Wat ass hatt eng schéi Fra! (What a beautiful woman she is!)
• Wat hues du en décken Auto! (What a big car you have!)
• Wat hues du vill Bicher! (You have so many books!)

With an adjective or an adverb, wat means how: Wat ass äre Bouf awer séier gewuess! (How fast your boy has grown!) Small words like awer make it sound warmer; see modal particles.

3. Wat ... fir en
You can also split wat fir en: Wat ass dat fir en Artist! (What an artist!) With a question mark, the same words ask a real question: Wat ass dat fir en Artist? (What kind of artist is that?)

4. Exclamation or question?
Both use the same word order as wat/wien questions. In speech, an exclamation has falling intonation. In writing, it ends with an exclamation mark.

5. With a datt clause
After wat + noun, a datt clause can say what happened: Wat e Pech, datt mir de Bus verpasst hunn!