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: 유
- 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