"What is in the bottle?"

Translation: 瓶子里有什么？

[JOEXE]

水。

[hadj.b]

牛奶

[RuhRoh1]

尿。。。

[bnbnb2]

恶心死了

[bennettoft]

咖啡。

[steven16]

茶

[blue-oranges]

Why is no qualifier needed with bottle here?

[Gabrielle145359]

We are not counting bottles, nor are we (grammatically) pointing to a specific bottle with words like 这 or 那.

[RevlisHans]

只有一点儿毒哈哈

[MilanLin]

Why is this wrong?
什么有瓶子里？

[twiceruleskpop]

backwards. this would say "there is a 'what' inside the bottle"

[Gabrielle145359]

I don't think this sentence means "there is a 'what' inside the bottle." With this word order, 什么--whatever it turns out to be-- is not located inside the bottle.

[Gabrielle145359]

Location有thing. = There is thing at location.

Thing在location. = Thing is at location.