Lingakuなぜ
Frequency rank: 595.
- why; howword usually written using kana alone
adverb (fukushi)
Forms
- なぜFrequency rank: 595.
- 何故【なぜ】【なにゆえ】Frequency rank: 816.
- 何ゆえ【なにゆえ】
- なにゆえFrequency rank: 32,811. – 33,123.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- why
- how
Used to ask for the reason or cause of something.
Why is he angry?
Why do you want to go to Japan?
Used to ask about the method or way in which something is done.
Generated collocations (experimental)
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
Why do yields increase with herbicide-resistant varieties?
Why was the Japan Defense Agency upgraded to the Japanese Ministry of Defense?
Why is it that only England succeeded in abridging the King's power?
Why are, depending on the company, blue-collar workers better paid than white-collar ones?
Why God allows these sorts of actions by Satan is explained in the Book of Job in the Bible.
Why do you make it open even to rivals in the same trade?
The Aegis collision - why couldn't it have been avoided?
Then, if so, why were the like of Kyouou let upon the throne?
Why would a university lecturer of all people end up responsible for a murder?
I wonder why it is that some plants become annuals and others perennials?
The old man wondered why life had passed him by.
Why do you insist on paying for your school expenses yourself, when your parents are willing to give you financial support?
Frankly speaking, it's difficult to understand why you want to go.