How You Say What You Do In English

When we meet someone we know or want to help someone, one way to say hello is to first ask what they are doing.

In English there are several ways to do it. The most direct is What are you doing? (What are you doing What you do (What are you doing?):

Hi, Nancy. What are you doing?

What you do with the car?

The difference between these two forms is that What are you doing? refers to an action that is being done at the same time that it is being carried out:

I am sweeping (I'm sweeping [at this moment])

I'm baking (I'm baking [right now])

Instead What you do It can refer to an activity that is not necessarily taking place at the time the question is being asked, but is related to a current activity. It is also used as a way to ask someone what they do:

What you do in the garden? (What are you doing in the garden? It is not an action that necessarily occurs at the time of the question, but it is something that takes place today)

What you do in your work? (What do you do at your job? It does not refer to what you do at the moment, but what you generally do at work)

An expression that can cause confusion is How are you doing?. Literally its translation is How are you doing it?; however its context is "How are you doing?" or "How have you been?":

How are you doing this week? (How have you been this week?)

What are you doing this week (What are you doing this week?)

What you do this week? (What are you doing this week?)

Examples of how you say what you do in English

Kids! What are you doing with my shoes?

What you do in the office?

What you do when you warm before exercise?

What are you doing here today? We have no class.

Sometimes I ask me: what are you doing in this job?

I can’t understand: What do you in this job?

How are you doing, Charlie? What are you doing today?

What you do to repair a watch?

What are you doing to repair the watch?

Tell me, What you do to living?