some people who i talk to say that, like my russian friends
The correct sentence is “what does it mean?”
As far as I know, Russian doesn’t use the auxillary verb “do/does”.
In many languages, the “do” is often a included in the case itself, meaning that it will be part of the word “mean”, as also suggested by the usage of “means” instead of “does mean”.
I suppose another construction could be “It means what?”
H1jAcK@lemm.ee 2 days ago
As in asking for the meaning of something? It would be more correct to phrase it as, “What does that mean?” But especially if English clearly isn’t your first language, “What it means?” will probably get the point across well enough
s0larfl4re@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
that makes sense, thank you!!
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The technical term you’re looking for is this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-support
English is somewhat weird in how to form questions and negations, most other languages don’t do this kind of thing.