why — Dizionario inglese

Avverbio

1. For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a complete question.

   TraduzionePer quale causa, ragione o scopo; introduce una domanda completa.

   Uso

   • interrogative
   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   Why is the door open?

   Why is the sky blue?

   Why did you do that?

   Altri esempi (3)

   I don’t know why he did that.

   Tell me why the moon changes phase.

   Why do you have a map of the world?

2. For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a complete question. With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.

   TraduzionePer quale causa, ragione o scopo; introduce una domanda completa. Con una negazione, è usato retoricamente per fare una proposta.

   Uso

   • interrogative
   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   Why don't we eat here?

   Why don't you ask her out for dinner?

3. For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).

   Uso

   • interrogative
   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   Why spend money on something you already get for free?

   Why not tell him how you feel?

4. For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a noun or other phrase.

   Uso

   • interrogative
   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   Why him? Why not someone taller?

5. For which cause, reason, or purpose.

   TraduzionePer la causa, ragione o scopo per cui.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • relative

   Esempi

   Tell me the reason why you left.

   That's the reason why I did that.

6. The cause, reason, or purpose for which.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Esempi

   That is why the sky is blue.

   Why most of us volunteer is that we need some fresh air.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Sostantivo

1. Reason.

   TraduzioneRagione.

   Esempi

   I know the how, but not the why.

   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.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Interiezione

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

   Uso

   • datato
   • letterario

   Esempi

   Why, that’s ridiculous!

   Why, how kind of you!

   Altri esempi (3)

   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!”

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Why indeed? But once you start whying, there's no end to it.

Sostantivo

1. A young heifer.

   Uso

   • Yorkshire
   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   At two years old, also, the HEIFERS - provincially, “whies,” are generally put to the bull.

Sostantivo

1. the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase ‘the whys and wherefores’

   Sinonimi

   wherefore

   Termini più generali

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