"What food is delicious?"
Translation:무슨 음식이 맛있습니까?
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무엇/뭐 is the pronoun what whereas 무슨 is the determiner what. A pronoun can stand in the place of a noun whereas a determiner needs a noun (like the words "the", "a", "an", "this", etc.). Take a look at these examples:
무엇입니까? -> It is what? -> What is it?
무슨 책입니까? -> It is what book? What book is it?
책입니까? -> It is a book? -> Is it a book?
Note the two different whats. 무슨입니까? is ungrammatical because 무슨 can't replace a noun.
There are many answers to this both on the forum and in various websites and videos -(in fact, this is such a commonly asked question I am surprised you haven't stumbled upon an answer yet)- but here are some good explanations to get you started;
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOy8bBId3zU
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCxLNRLntc0
3: http://www.learnkoreanlp.com/2011/12/subject-particles.html
4: http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Particles.html
은/는 have the same usage, the only difference is 는 is used after a vowel -which you already know.
이/가 have the same usage, the only difference is 가 is used after a vowel -which you also already know.
은/는 are usually used for more general statements: "dogs eat meat" whereas 이/가 are for more specific sentences "The dog eats meat" There are also other nuances around these, so I suggest you look at a couple of the sources above to give yourself a better idea of it.
Hope this helped :)
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Makes no sense.... in the previous example "What move is this?" What had to come after the word movie, now in this one, What has to come before the word food.... smh
i was super confused too so i did some searching and this is what i can undestand; 무슨 is a pronoun so it takes the place of a noun. 무엇 would be the equivilant article so would go before the noun it is refering to but has the same meaning - 'what'. so if you want it to go at the begining use 무엇 then the noun. if you want it to be the noun use 무슨 in the noun position.