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How to say what's up in Spanish

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updated Jan 11, 2014
posted by Sequoiaj65
By the way, what do you understand when someone says "What's up?" I hope you'll let some Spanish speakers learn. - Raja-jani, Jan 10, 2014
@1Rajaji What's up is a very informal/slang way of saying "What's going on?" or "What's happening?", "What's new?", etc. - AlyssaLTerry, Jan 11, 2014

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¿Qué pasa?

updated Jan 11, 2014
posted by ian-hill
Yes, the simplest solution. - annierats, Jan 11, 2014
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¿Cómo te va?

¿Qué tal (estás/andas)?

¿Qué dices?

¿Qué onda? (México)

¿Qué hay (de nuevo)? (España)

updated Jan 11, 2014
posted by pescador1
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Qué tal?

updated Jan 11, 2014
posted by Raja-jani
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For those interested, here is a graph showing the usage of the phrase "What's up?" from 1800-2000.

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Copy/paste this link into your browser for more information: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=What's+up&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3&share;=&direct_url=t1;,What's up;,c0

updated Jan 11, 2014
edited by AlyssaLTerry
posted by AlyssaLTerry
Wow, what's up with that? - dennywells, Jan 11, 2014
It sure is "on the up" - ian-hill, Jan 11, 2014
Jajajajaja!! Good ones, Denny & Ian! =] I laughed out loud, very clever. - AlyssaLTerry, Jan 11, 2014
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Que craqueo perro!

Wuz crackin' dawg!

Well, maybe that's a brand new one...

updated Jan 11, 2014
posted by dennywells
Now they say, "thaswasup" - rac1, Jan 11, 2014