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I know that, but I need to know when in creating phrases of my own, if i should use что or как.

The problem came when I did a literal translation. "How will be word in russian?". What makes more sense in english.

yes. He tried to explain it too me but I'm teaching him english too. He speaks it good enough though that we can converse in english.

Are there any speciffic rules as to when to use что and как?

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I was talking to someone, and I was asking how to say "How do you say (some english word) in russian?". He told me it would be "Как будет (word) на русском", but I thought it should be...