Usage Note
Quoi is the stressed, standalone 'what' — used after prepositions, as a blunt quoi ? when you didn't catch something, and at sentence-end as the very French verbal shrug ..., quoi. It anchors the casual greeting quoi de neuf ? (what's new?) and the reply il n'y a pas de quoi (don't mention it).
Examples
"À quoi tu penses ?"
Natural Translation
What are you thinking about?
Literal Translation
At what you think
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