why

Significado

Adv

1. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
2. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
3. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
4. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
5. For which cause, reason, or purpose.
6. The cause, reason, or purpose for which.

Noun

Reason.

Intj

An exclamation used to express pleasant or unpleasant mild surprise, indignation, or impatience.

Verb

To ask (someone) the question "why?".

Noun

A young heifer.

Noun

Alternative form of wye; the name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ʍaɪ/

Etimología

From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).
Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.

Oraciones

That is why I am here .

Por eso estoy aquí.

Why Study Popular Culture ?

¿Por qué estudiar la cultura popular?

Why else would he tell his main rival to prepare for a run ?

¿Por qué más le diría a su principal rival que se prepare para una carrera?

Why don't you say something ?

¿Por qué no dices algo?

That's why I feel that I deserve a part of what you find .

Por eso siento que merezco una parte de lo que encuentras.

That's the reason why I came in fourth .

Esa es la razón por la que llegué en cuarto lugar.

Why don't you fellows get your own news ?

¿Por qué no reciben sus propias noticias?

This is the main reason why pesto recipes often differ from each other .

Esta es la razón principal por la cual las recetas de pesto a menudo difieren entre sí.