Translations: the word in the other languages
  • Afrikaans: hoekom
  • Amharic: ለምን
  • Arabic: لماذا
  • Azerbaijani: niyə
  • Bashkir: ни
  • Belarusian: чаму
  • Bulgarian: защо
  • Bengali: কেন
  • Bosnian: zašto
  • Catalan: per què
  • Cebuano: ngano
  • Czech: proč
  • Welsh: pam
  • Danish: hvorfor
  • German: warum
  • Greek: γιατί
  • Esperanto: kial
  • Spanish: por qué
  • Estonian: miks
  • Basque: zergatik
  • Persian: چرا
  • Finnish: miksi
  • French: pourquoi
  • Irish: cén fáth
  • Scottish Gaelic: carson
  • Galician: por que
  • Gujarati: શા માટે
  • Hebrew: למה
  • Hindi: क्यों
  • Croatian: zašto
  • Haitian: poukisa
  • Hungarian: miért
  • Armenian: ինչո ՞ ւ
  • Indonesian: mengapa
  • Icelandic: af hverju
  • Italian: perché
  • Japanese: なぜ
  • Javanese: kok
  • Georgian: რატომ
  • Kazakh: неге
  • Khmer: ហេតុអ្វីបាន
  • Kannada: ಏಕೆ
  • Korean:
  • Kyrgyz: эмне үчүн
  • Latin: quare
  • Luxembourgish: firwat
  • Lao: ເປັນຫຍັງຈຶ່ງ
  • Lithuanian: kodėl
  • Latvian: kāpēc
  • Malagasy: nahoana
  • Mari: мо
  • Maori: he aha te
  • Macedonian: зошто
  • Malayalam: എന്തുകൊണ്ട്
  • Mongolian: яагаад
  • Marathi: का
  • Hill Mari: малын
  • Malay: mengapa
  • Maltese: għaliex
  • Burmese: အဘယ်ကြောင့်
  • Nepali: किन
  • Dutch: waarom
  • Norwegian: hvorfor
  • Punjabi: ਇਸੇ
  • Papiamento: pakiko
  • Polish: dlaczego
  • Portuguese: por quê
  • Romanian: de ce
  • Russian: почему
  • Sinhalese: ඇයි
  • Slovak: prečo
  • Slovenian: zakaj
  • Albanian: pse
  • Serbian: зашто
  • Sundanese: naha
  • Swedish: varför
  • Swahili: kwa nini
  • Tamil: ஏன்
  • Telugu: ఎందుకు
  • Tajik: чаро
  • Thai: ทำไมถึง
  • Tagalog: bakit
  • Turkish: neden
  • Tatar: ни өчен
  • Udmurt: маин
  • Ukrainian: чому
  • Urdu: کیوں
  • Uzbek: nima uchun
  • Vietnamese: tại sao
  • Xhosa: kutheni
  • Yiddish: פארוואס
  • Chinese: 为什么

Synonyms, close and similar words for why

  • wherefore
  • reason
  • motive
  • ground
  • cause
  • how
  • after all
  • yes
  • ah
  • well
  • what
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