Widowing

Definition

why /waÇ/ interrog adv ၁။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္။ Why were you late? ❍ Why did you buy those shoes? ❍ Tell me why you did it. ❍ Do you know why the door is locked? ❍ ‘I want you to tidy the kitchen. ’ ‘Why me?’ ၂။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ …ရမွာလဲ။ Why get upset just because you got a bad mark? ❍ Why bother to write? We'll see him tomorrow. rel adv (အထူးသျဖင့္ reason ေနာက္တြင္တြဲသံုးသည္။ ) (အေၾကာင္း) ကေတာ့။ the reason why he left her ❍ That is (the reason) why I came early. interj ( dated or US ) (အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ စိတ္မရွည္ျခင္း စသည္ျပေသာ အာေမၮိတ္)။ ဪ။ Why, Jane, it's you! ❍ Why, it's easy — a child could do it! ❏ why ever [ IDM ] (အံ့အားတသင့္ႏွင့္ သံုးေသာ စကား)။ ဘာေၾကာင့္မ်ား။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔မ်ား။ Why ever didn't you tell us before? ❏ why not [ IDM ] (အႀကံျပဳသည့္သေဘာ၊ လက္ခံသည့္ သေဘာကိုျပေသာစကား)။ …ရမွာေပါ့။ Why not write to her? ❍ ‘Let's go to the cinema. ’ ‘Why not?’ ❏ the whys and (the) wherefores [ IDM ] ဘာဘာညာညာ အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္မ်ား။ ဆင္ေျခဆင္လက္မ်ား။ I don't need to hear all the whys and the wherefores, just tell me what happened.

Examples

1. Why are you so angry?
2. He asked me why I was leaving so early
3. and I didn’t know what to say.
4. [why is it that...?] : Why is it that the country imports so much of its food?
5. [why ever] : ‘She says she’s not coming to the wedding.’ ‘Why ever not?’
6. I don’t know why
7. but there’s something I don’t like about that woman.
8. There are a lot of things we need to discuss
9. which is why I’m here.
10. [reason why] : I can only think of one reason why Frank should be jealous.
11. ‘Henry’s arriving on the twenty-eighth.’ ‘Why
12. that’s tomorrow!’
13. Why
14. I bet you never had the slightest intention of keeping your promise.