"Jaka jest sytuacja?"
Translation:What is the situation?
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In this case, I think in English it is plausible to say how is the situation... Can we add this to the accepted sentence?
Usually people would say, "What is the situation." Maybe some contexts would allow, "How is the situation?"
Why isn't it 'co' here?
For that matter, how do you know when to use 'co' and when to use 'jak' (and its declensions)?
I believe that it works like that:
If in English you have "what" and some noun (What movie is it? What is the temperature? What hammer did you use?), then you use forms of "jaki".
If in English you have "what" and no noun, just a verb (What are you doing? What do you like to eat?), then you use forms of "co".
"jak" generally means "how" (although there may be contexts in which it's translated to 'what').
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As an addition to this explanation: If you ask for the definition of a noun, you also use a form of "co". "What is love?" = "Czym jest miłość?" or maybe "Co to jest miłość?"
In any case, is not "craic" more like the fun of a party than some generic "situation"?