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- General-South-African
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- Multicultural-London-English
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- Scotland
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- Scotland
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- Southern-US
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Adverb
For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a complete question.
ÜbersetzungFragt in einem vollständigen Fragesatz nach dem Grund oder der Ursache.
Gebrauch- interrogative
- not-comparable
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Why is the door open?
Warum ist die Tür offen?
Why is the sky blue?
Why did you do that?
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I don’t know why he did that.
Tell me why the moon changes phase.
Why do you have a map of the world?
For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a complete question. With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
ÜbersetzungMit einer Verneinung: rhetorische Frage oder Vorschlag.
Gebrauch- interrogative
- not-comparable
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Why don't we eat here?
Warum essen wir nicht hier?
Why don't you ask her out for dinner?
For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
Gebrauch- interrogative
- not-comparable
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Why spend money on something you already get for free?
Why not tell him how you feel?
For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a noun or other phrase.
Gebrauch- interrogative
- not-comparable
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Why him? Why not someone taller?
For which cause, reason, or purpose.
ÜbersetzungAus welchem Grund; bezieht sich auf einen genannten Grund.
Gebrauch- not-comparable
- relative
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Tell me the reason why you left.
Sag mir den Grund, warum du gegangen bist.
That's the reason why I did that.
The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
Gebrauch- not-comparable
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That is why the sky is blue.
Why most of us volunteer is that we need some fresh air.
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Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
Substantiv
Reason.
ÜbersetzungEin Grund oder eine Ursache.
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I know the how, but not the why.
Ich weiß, wie es geht, aber nicht, warum.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
I don't want to know the whys or the wherefores of your decision.
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Within months of leaving, she became the new owner of Dream Body Recovery in Miami, which has three rooms that can accommodate up to six clients. “Being a part of this journey with other ladies, knowing how it changed my life, that’s my why,” she told me.
Interjektion
An exclamation used to express pleasant or unpleasant mild surprise, indignation, or impatience.
Gebrauch- veraltend
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Why, that’s ridiculous!
Why, how kind of you!
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Why yes, that’s true.
VVhy Child, I tell thee if I vvas thy Mmother I ſhould not diſovvn thee; Don't you ſee I am as kind to you as if I vvas your Mother?
Suddenly she put her hand out to feel Helen, and felt the pin curlers. “Why, you’ve got curlers on!”
Verb
To ask (someone) the question "why?".
Gebrauch- intransitiv
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Why indeed? But once you start whying, there's no end to it.
Substantiv
A young heifer.
Gebrauch- Yorkshire
- außer Gebrauch
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At two years old, also, the HEIFERS - provincially, “whies,” are generally put to the bull.
Substantiv
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase ‘the whys and wherefores’
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