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What does why mean?
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why

Used to ask the reason for something. Why did you say that? Why did you try to steal money from this shop? Used to talk about the reason for something. I wonder why he did that. Used to give more information about the reason for something. Can you tell me the reason why he did that?

why

Used to show a person's surprise or impatience about something. Why! Thank you for the present.

why

(plural: whys) The reason to something. Whenever you begin to write an essay, please do not forget to talk about the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how. (plural: whies) A why is a young cow or woman.

why

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase 'the whys and wherefores'

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Simple sentences

Why don't we go home?
The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.
Why me?
Why don't you study French?
Why did he run away?
Why are you crying?
Why do you want to be a nurse?
Why are you in such a hurry?
Why do you study English every day?
Why do you need it?
That is why so many students are absent today.
Why do you ask?
Why are you asking?
Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
Why don't you come visit us?
Why are you sorry for something you haven't done?
It would take me too much time to explain to you why it's not going to work.
She's faking sleep. That's why she's not snoring.
Why is life so full of suffering?
Why don't you eat vegetables?
Why don't you eat some vegetables?
Why aren't you eating vegetables?
Why do people go to the movies?
Why would you marry a woman if you like men?

Movie subtitles

Why'd you piss at stranger's house?
Why would you do that?
If she lives so great, why would she abondon me?
How, not one but two why would she abandon me!
Why, did your mom cause an accident again?
Is seems like she didn't know. Why don't you forgive her.
I mean why make a big deal with just one shirt.
Why did you steal it?
Why are you crying for?
Huh, why are you crying for.
You should have gone somewhere else.why on a Sunday?
Why are you crying, Miss?
Even if you like me that much. All the way from Australia. Why would you come all this way?
Why is that man crying?
Why. all of a sudden?
Oh, why.?
Yuffie? Why did you lie just now?
Why you Britannian.
Why did you let them go?
That's why. I would at least like a world without war. A place where we won't lose dear ones.
Why do you think we exist?
And that's why you?
Why was this done?
Women and children too! - Why the women?
That's why I created the first Arab offices in this land and why I set up the first Zouave regiment, made up of Muslim volunteers who are now our brothers in arms.
Why, Sister?
Why are you spying on us?
Suspended on the spot, get sent home, your parents freak out, and that's why I won't let anybody in my crew touch the stuff.
Why do you say that?
Well, then, why would you do that to me?
You know what? I don't even know why I told him.
It doesn't matter why you did it.
Nick doesn't want him anymore. Why would we hire a loser like you?
Why the fuck would you do that?
Why should we trust you?
But why didn't you do anything? I did.
So, Nick, why did you decide to take over the PBJ racket?
Who knows why?
Why won't you let bud and his friends use the soccer field?
Why do you mean, what do I mean? It's obvious that they're the ones who attacked us.

News and current affairs

Perhaps that is why mankind has so far managed to survive.
That is why the war's great hero, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the summer of 1945, even before Japan surrendered.
It cannot be the same as the 1945 consensus, but we would do well, on this anniversary, to remember why that consensus was forged in the first place.
Given that America benefits mightily from China's purchases of US government securities, it is difficult to understand why the US government and Congress have been complaining so much about the bilateral current-account deficit.
It is also difficult to grasp why China is so reluctant to reduce its bilateral surplus, given meager returns on its massive holdings of US government securities and a sustained risk of large capital losses in the future.
Why, then, do the most advanced countries, in particular, take on the risk of a mega-catastrophe by seeking to create energy from radioactive fission?
It is a vicious circle, but where and why did it start?
Why did it worsen?
Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.
And this is why it doesn't matter whether the relevant events happened 60 years ago (as World War II), 90 years (as in the case of the Armenian genocide) or even 600 years (such as the battle of Kosovo in 1389).
So why did the IMF flip?
Why not add the Swiss franc or the Canadian dollar?
Or, for that matter, why not include the Russian ruble or Indian rupee?
Maintaining an undervalued currency has the upside that it subsidizes the production of such goods; but it also has the downside that it taxes domestic consumption - which is why it generates a trade surplus.
But a financial crisis does not give policymakers the time that they once had to explain to voters why one step required another.
If he really is as head-over-heels in love with Bruni as he claims, and plans to marry her imminently, why not take advantage of his upcoming trip to India and make this a wedding to remember?
So why are such theories gaining adherents in the US and other affluent democracies nowadays?
This is why so many threads of discussion turn from potentially interesting citizen speculation to hate speech and paranoia.
That is why he warned the cop, Sgt. James Crowley, a veteran of the Cambridge police force, not to mess with him.
There are two reasons why we believe that Liu would be a worthy recipient of that prestigious award.
The second reason why Liu deserves the Nobel Peace Prize resonates with Alfred Nobel's original intent for the award.