was tut

what is ... doing

→ was
phrase Very common #1,803
what is ... doing Used to ask what someone is doing. With a noun or pronoun after it, it often translates naturally as "what is ... doing?" in English, even though the German verb is in the simple present.
GE: Was tut er da?
EN: What is he doing there?

Was tut dir denn leid?

What are you sorry about?

— Die Taschendiebin (2016)

Funker, was tut sich im Norden?

Radio operator, what's happening in the north?

— The Wolf's Call - Entscheidung in der Tiefe (2019)

Was tut hier unsere Mutter?

What is our mother doing here?

— Stalker (1979)

Was tut man nicht alles, um nichts zu verlieren.

The things one does to avoid losing anything.

— Caché (2005)

Was tut Sie eigentlich hier?

What are you actually doing here?

— David Copperfield - Einmal Reichtum und zurück (2019)

Was tut sie denn?

What is she doing?

— Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix (2007)

Und was tut sie jetzt?

And what is she doing now?

— Reservoir Dogs - Wilde Hunde (1992)

Was tut der Idiot da?

What is that idiot doing there?

— Und dann der Regen (2011)

Was tut dir denn weh?

What hurts?

— Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Was tut sie da?

What is she doing?

— Girls' Night Out (2017)

Was tut Tom in Boston?

What is Tom doing in Boston?