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[vocal hinge]

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[feral lodge]

"who's that, me?"

[tropic wagon]

ahh makes perfect sense thank you lemons

also does "avoir une tête à faire qch" mean to look like u do something

i saw "j'ai une tête à tuer n'importe qui?" so i was wandering if im understanding that right

[feral lodge]

That's how I'd interpret that. Tête in that context is like face

[tropic wagon]

thank you

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Qui ça, comment ça, où ça, pourquoi ça, are emphatic variants of the interrogatives used in isolation (eg not in a sentence). They are pronounced as one word (the stress falls on the ça). Note that *quoi ça does not exist: we just say quoi, or sometimes quoi donc

où ça is especially common, as saying "ou" on its own can sound unclear

comment ça has a similar tone to "what do you mean"

[dry ember]

"quoi ça" definitely exists too, I've heard it many a time

Commonly used where I'm from if you didn't hear what someone said. If you've never heard of it it could be regional

[exotic widget]

Interesting. Could you locate an example of it?
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about things like "C'est quoi ça" where quoi and ça are separate phonetic words and stressed differently.

[dry ember]

https://www.servicevolontaire.org/mission-volontariat/fr/parler-belge-comment-survivre-en-belgique-quand-tu-es-francais-e/

A quick search didn't turn up anything for Canada but I recognize a handful of the terms in the table in this article, including "quoi ça", and the French community in Manitoba definitely has some Belgian roots

[tall fractal]

Can confirm here we use all question words with « ça », including « quoi ça ? »