Word: 为什么 (wèishénme)

不知道为什么没有人告诉过我。

Bù zhīdào wèishénme méiyǒu rén gàosuguo wǒ.

I wonder why nobody told me.

不知道她为什么这么担心呢。

Bù zhīdào tā wèishénme zhème dānxīn ne.

I wonder why she is so worried.

为什么不去波士顿？

Wèishénme bú qù Bōshìdùn?

Why don't you go to Boston?

为什么买这样的车呢？

Wèishénme mǎi zhèyàng de chē ne?

Why are you buying this type of car?

为什么他们会需要那么做呢？

Wèishénme tāmen huì xūyào nàme zuò ne?

Why would they need to do that?

为什么他会做这样的事呢？

Wèishénme tā huì zuò zhèyàng de shì ne?

Why did he do such a thing?

为什么他在这儿？

Wèishénme tā zài zhèr?

Why is he here?

为什么他生气？

Wèishénme tā shēngqì?

Why is he angry?

为什么你不叫你的父母给你买车？

Wèishénme nǐ bú jiào nǐ de fùmǔ gěi nǐ mǎi chē?

Why don't you ask your parents to buy you a car?

为什么你不来看我们？

Wèishénme nǐ bù láikàn wǒmen?

Why don't you come visit us?

为什么你不等等我就开始了？

Wèishénme nǐ bù děngděng wǒ jiù kāishǐle?

Why did you begin without me?

为什么你学世界语？

Wèishénme nǐ xué Shìjièyǔ?

Why are you learning Esperanto?

为什么你对于这个有这样的想法？

Wèishénme nǐ duìyú zhège yǒu zhèyàng de xiǎngfǎ?

Why should you think that?

为什么你想到外国读书？

Wèishénme nǐ xiǎngdào wàiguó dúshū?

Why do you want to study abroad?

为什么你每天都学习呢？

Wèishénme nǐ měitiān dōu xuéxí ne?

Why do you study every day?

为什么你的嘴那么大？

Wèishénme nǐ de zuǐ nàme dà?

Why is your mouth so big?

为什么你花了所有钱？

Wèishénme nǐ huāle suǒyǒu qián?

Why did you use up all the money?

为什么你要烧这些图片呢？

Wèishénme nǐ yào shāo zhèxiē túpiàn ne?

Why are you burning these pictures?

为什么喝那么多药？

Wèishénme hē nàme duō yào?

Why are you taking so much medicine?

为什么大家突然对我这么好？

Wèishénme dàjiā tūrán duì wǒ zhème hǎo?

Why is everyone being so nice to me all of a sudden?

为什么天是蓝的？

Wèishénme tiān shì lán de?

Why is the sky blue?

为什么她早回家了？

Wèishénme tā zǎo huíjiā le?

Why did she come home early?

为什么她的父亲去了日本？

Wèishénme tā de fùqīn qùle Rìběn?

Why did her father go to Japan?

为什么她要做这种事情呢？

Wèishénme tā yào zuò zhèzhǒng shìqing ne?

What made her do so?

为什么它应该要变得不一样？

Wèishénme tā yīnggāi yào biànde bù yíyàng?

Why should it be different?

为什么它是必要的？

Wèishénme tā shì bìyào de?

Why should it be necessary?

为什么宗教是必要的？

Wèishénme zōngjiào shì bìyào de?

Why is religion necessary?

为什么您一个人？

Wèishénme nín yí gè rén?

Why are you alone?

为什么您想到外国读书？

Wèishénme nín xiǎngdào wàiguó dúshū?

Why do you want to study abroad?

为什么我一直学不好英语？

Wèishénme wǒ yìzhí xué bù hǎo Yīngyǔ?

Why is it after all this time, I still cannot learn English well?

为什么我们应该要帮助？

Wèishénme wǒmen yīnggāi yào bāngzhù?

Why should we help?

为什么我们现在不能讲？

Wèishénme wǒmen xiànzài bùnéng jiǎng?

Why can't we talk now?

为什么我在哭？

Wèishénme wǒ zài kū?

Why am I crying?

为什么我应该去学校？

Wèishénme wǒ yīnggāi qù xuéxiào?

Why do I have to go to school?

为什么我还在这里？

Wèishénme wǒ hái zài zhèlǐ?

Why am I still here?

为什么改变那么难？

Wèishénme gǎibiàn nàme nán?

Why is change so hard?

为什么是我？

Wèishénme shì wǒ?

Why me?

为什么植物是绿色的？

Wèishénme zhíwù shì lǜsè de?

Why are plants green?

为什么没人喜欢她？

Wèishénme méi rén xǐhuan tā?

Why would anyone not like her?

为什么没人来我的网站呢？

Wèishénme méi rén lái wǒ de wǎngzhàn ne?

Why isn't anyone visiting my website?

为什么没有世界和平？

Wèishénme méiyǒu shìjiè hépíng?

Why is there no world peace?

为什么现在做那个？

Wèishénme xiànzài zuò nàge?

Why do that now?

为什么现在才到。

Wèishénme xiànzài cái dào.

Why have you only arrived now?

为什么现在才来？

Wèishénme xiànzài cái lái?

Why have you come only now?

为什么电视开着？

Wèishénme diànshì kāizhe?

Why is the television on?

为什么草是绿色的？

Wèishénme cǎo shì lǜsè de?

Why is grass green?

为什么要学法文？

Wèishénme yào xué Fǎwén?

Why learn French?

为什么要学法语？

Wèishénme yào xué Fǎyǔ?

Why learn French?

为什么要学法语呢？

Wèishénme yào xué Fǎyǔ ne?

Why learn French?

为什么要怪到我们头上？

Wèishénme yào guài dào wǒmen tóushàng?

Why blame us?

为什么要担心？

Wèishénme yào dānxīn?

Why worry about it?

为什么要接受这个任务？

Wèishénme yào jiēshòu zhège rènwu?

Why did you take it on?

为什么这世界上还有战争？

Wèishénme zhè shìjiè shàng háiyǒu zhànzhēng?

Why are there still wars in the world?

为什么这两天一天比一天热？

Wèishénme zhè liǎng tiān yì tiān bǐ yì tiān rè?

Why has it been getting hotter and hotter these last two days?

为什么这个时间在外面呢？

Wèishénme zhège shíjiān zài wàimiàn ne?

Why are you out at this hour?

为什么选择这所学校？

Wèishénme xuǎnzé zhè suǒ xuéxiào?

Why did you choose this school?

为什么那么多人访问京都？

Wèishénme nàme duō rén fǎngwèn Jīngdū?

Why do so many people visit Kyoto?

为什么雪是白色的呢？

Wèishénme xuě shì báisè de ne?

Why is snow white?

他为什么不吃肉？

Tā wèishénme bùchī ròu?

Why doesn't he eat meat?

他为什么不回来？

Tā wèishénme bù huílai?

Why doesn't he come back?

他为什么之前住在美国？

Tā wèishénme zhīqián zhù zài Měiguó?

Why did he live in the United States?

他为什么写了那个。

Tā wèishénme xiěle nàge.

Why did he write that?

他为什么有两辆车？

Tā wèishénme yǒu liǎng liàng chē?

Why do you have two cars?

他为什么生气了呢？

Tā wèishénme shēngqì le ne?

Why did he become angry?

他以为什么都知道。

Tā yǐ wèishénme dōu zhīdào.

He thinks he knows everything.

他们为什么在生气？

Tāmen wèishénme zài shēngqì?

Why are they angry?

他们甚至不知道为什么。

Tāmen shènzhì bù zhīdào wèishénme.

They don't even know why.

他问我为什么在笑。

Tā wèn wǒ wèishénme zài xiào.

He asked me why I was laughing.

你不想知道为什么吗？

Nǐ bùxiǎng zhīdào wèishénme ma?

Don't you want to know why?

你为什么一个人？

Nǐ wèishénme yí gè rén?

Why are you alone?

你为什么不做？

Nǐ wèishénme bú zuò?

Why are you not doing it?

你为什么不去加入她？

Nǐ wèishénme bú qù jiārù tā?

Why don't you go and join her?

你为什么不去呢？

Nǐ wèishénme bú qù ne?

Why aren't you going?

你为什么不和我们一起来？

Nǐ wèishénme bù hé wǒmen yì qǐlai?

Why aren't you coming with us?

你为什么不回家呢？

Nǐ wèishénme bù huíjiā ne?

Why don't you go home?

你为什么不回答？

Nǐ wèishénme bù huídá?

Why do you not answer?

你为什么不在里面？

Nǐ wèishénme bú zài lǐmiàn?

Why aren't you in there?

你为什么不留下来一会儿？

Nǐ wèishénme bù liúxià lái yíhuìr?

Why don't you stay a little while?

你为什么不留在这里？

Nǐ wèishénme bù liú zài zhèlǐ?

Why don't you stay here?

你为什么不直接炒了他？

Nǐ wèishénme bù zhíjiē chǎole tā?

Why don't you just fire him?

你为什么不请一天假？

Nǐ wèishénme bù qǐng yì tiān jiǎ?

Why don't you take the day off?

你为什么不读这杂志呢？

Nǐ wèishénme bù dú zhè zázhì ne?

Why didn't you read the magazine?

你为什么会出现在我工作单位？

Nǐ wèishénme huì chūxiàn zài wǒ gōngzuò dānwèi?

Why would you appear in my unit?

你为什么会知道？

Nǐ wèishénme huì zhīdào?

How did you come to know this?

你为什么会认为我在想你？

Nǐ wèishénme huì rènwéi wǒ zài xiǎng nǐ?

Why do you think I'm thinking about you?

你为什么关心他们？

Nǐ wèishénme guānxīn tāmen?

Why do you care about them?

你为什么卖了它？

Nǐ wèishénme màile tā?

Why did you sell it?

你为什么去东京？

Nǐ wèishénme qù Dōngjīng?

Why did you go to Tokyo?

你为什么去了东京？

Nǐ wèishénme qùle Dōngjīng?

Why did you go to Tokyo?

你为什么哭？

Nǐ wèishénme kū?

Why are you crying?

你为什么哭了？

Nǐ wèishénme kūle?

For what reason did you cry?

你为什么喜欢住在阿尔及利亚？

Nǐ wèishénme xǐhuan zhù zài Ā'ěrjílìyà?

Why do you like living in Algeria?

你为什么喜欢我？

Nǐ wèishénme xǐhuan wǒ?

Why do you love me?

你为什么在画花？

Nǐ wèishénme zài huà huā?

Why are you drawing flowers?

你为什么在这？

Nǐ wèishénme zài zhè?

What are you here for?

你为什么在这儿？

Nǐ wèishénme zài zhèr?

Why are you here?

你为什么在这儿工作？

Nǐ wèishénme zài zhèr gōngzuò?

Why do you work here?

你为什么在这里？

Nǐ wèishénme zài zhèlǐ?

Why are you here?

你为什么在这里坐着？

Nǐ wèishénme zài zhèlǐ zuòzhe?

Why are you just sitting there?

你为什么学德语？

Nǐ wèishénme xué Déyǔ?

Why do you learn German?