What's the problem meaning in English

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Definition

What seems to be the problem?: What's wrong? What's the problem? idiom
What seems to be the problem? is more polite and formal than What's the problem?

Examples

  • "What's the problem, now, Icarus?"
  • "Now, what's the problem Horatio?"
  • "It's mine. What's the problem?"
  • "Hannah : Good girl. What's the problem?"
Exercise 1
Bruno asks: What's this regarding? to find out why Larkin is calling.

The following expressions could also be used, but they are not in the correct order.

For example:
help you I can how? --> How can I help you?

Now put the questions in the correct order!

you do what can for I? --> ?

problem to seems be the what? --> ?
Bruno asks: What's this regarding? to find out why Larkin is calling.

The following expressions could also be used, but they are not in the correct order.

For example:
help you I can how? --> How can I help you?

Now put the questions in the correct order!

you do what can for I? --> What can I do for you 1?

problem to seems be the what? --> What seems to be the problem 2?
1 What can I do for you: "What can I do for you?" is a polite way of offering assistance. For example: "-Is that the mental home? -Yes it is, what can I do for you?". Note: Bruno is a busy businessman so he says: "What's this regarding?". This question is more neutral because it asks for Larkin's reason for calling without necessarily guaranteeing assistance.
2 What seems to be the problem: "What seems to be the problem?" is a polite way of asking a caller to give more information about a problem. For example: "-There's something wrong with the teleportation unit I bought from you. -Oh dear, what seems to be the problem?".

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