"kāpēc" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [Latvian]

IPA: [ˈkâːpêːts], [kâːˈpêːts] Audio: lv-riga-kāpēc.ogg , lv-riga-kāpēc-2.ogg
Etymology: From kā (“what[gen.]”) + pēc (“after; for”). Etymology templates: {{l|en|genitive|gen.}} gen., {{compound|lv|kā|pēc|gloss1=what􂀿gen.􂁀|gloss2=after; for}} kā (“what[gen.]”) + pēc (“after; for”) Head templates: {{head|lv|adverb|head=}} kāpēc, {{lv-adv}} kāpēc
  1. (in questions involving cause, motive, purpose, answerable with jo “because”) why? for what reason? for what purpose?
    Sense id: en-kāpēc-lv-adv-y2DhRPKt
  2. (in rhetorical questions, indicating something unnecessary, or which is not the case) why?, oh why?
    Sense id: en-kāpēc-lv-adv-XCk7qUf9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kādēļ, kālab Related terms: tāpēc

Conjunction [Latvian]

IPA: [ˈkâːpêːts], [kâːˈpêːts] Audio: lv-riga-kāpēc.ogg , lv-riga-kāpēc-2.ogg
Etymology: From kā (“what[gen.]”) + pēc (“after; for”). Etymology templates: {{l|en|genitive|gen.}} gen., {{compound|lv|kā|pēc|gloss1=what􂀿gen.􂁀|gloss2=after; for}} kā (“what[gen.]”) + pēc (“after; for”) Head templates: {{head|lv|conjunction}} kāpēc
  1. why; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating cause, motive, purpose, and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions:
    Sense id: en-kāpēc-lv-conj-u9P0UGM9 Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header, Latvian entries with language name categories using raw markup, Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Latvian words with broken intonation Disambiguation of Latvian entries with incorrect language header: 4 3 63 30 Disambiguation of Latvian entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 5 61 28 Disambiguation of Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 8 6 61 25 Disambiguation of Latvian words with broken intonation: 15 8 45 32
  2. (colloquial, syn. tāpēc) because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-kāpēc-lv-conj-vngqIQXX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kādēļ, kālab

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        {
          "english": "why aren't you coming?",
          "text": "kāpēc tu nenāc?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why isn't the work done?",
          "text": "kāpēc darbs nav izdarīts?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why is he sad?",
          "text": "kāpēc viņš ir noskumis?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "“kāpēc jūs aizejat? es taču nedzenu jūs”, Līvja skarbi iesmējās ― “why are you leaving? I'm not driving you away,” Līvja laughed harshly",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why didn't Ilga take the hand he (had) offered? maybe she didn't need an apartment? or maybe she didn't want to study?",
          "text": "kāpēc gan Ilga nepieņemtu viņa pasniegto roku? vai tad viņai nav vajadzīgs dzīvoklis? vai tad viņa negrib mācīties?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why am I writing all this? because",
          "text": "kāpēc es visu to rakstu?... tāpēc, ka es ilgojos un slāpstu dzīvības un dzīves",
          "type": "example"
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        [
          "motive",
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        [
          "purpose",
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          "answerable",
          "answerable"
        ],
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "jo",
          "jo#Latvian"
        ],
        [
          "why",
          "why"
        ],
        [
          "for",
          "for"
        ],
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          "what",
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          "reason",
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        "(in questions involving cause, motive, purpose, answerable with jo “because”) why? for what reason? for what purpose?"
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        {
          "english": "why go (on foot), if we can go (by car)?",
          "text": "kāpēc iet, ja varam braukt!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the speaker is annoyed",
          "text": "kāpēc Brīviņos nevar būt divdesmit pieci slaucami lopi? ― why can't there be 25 dairy cows in Brīviņi?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "why?, oh why?"
      ],
      "id": "en-kāpēc-lv-adv-XCk7qUf9",
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          "rhetorical question",
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          "indicating",
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          "unnecessary"
        ],
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          "why",
          "why"
        ]
      ],
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        "(in rhetorical questions, indicating something unnecessary, or which is not the case) why?, oh why?"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in rhetorical questions",
        "indicating something unnecessary"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "[ˈkâːpêːts]"
    },
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      "ipa": "[kâːˈpêːts]"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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          "_dis": "4 3 63 30",
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          "text": "(a) subject:"
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        {
          "english": "it is not clear why he talks like that",
          "text": "nav saprotams, kāpēc viņš tā runā",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "they had to know everything, what we are and why we do nothing",
          "text": "viņiem te jāzina viss, kādi mēs esam un kāpēc neko nedarām",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(b) (secondary) predicate, attributive complement:",
          "text": "jaunajam cilvēkiemm ne prātā neienāca, kāpēc meitene tik labi atceras vēstuļu skaitu ― (the reason) why the girl remembered the number of letters so well didn't enter into the new guy's mind",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(c) direct object (e.g., reporting a question)",
          "text": "grūti uztvert stāsta galveno ideju, mērķi, kāpēc tās radīts ― it was difficult to perceive the story's main idea, the target (= reason) why it was created",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I don't know why he isn't coming",
          "text": "es nezinu, kāpēc viņš nenāk",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I will ask why he is crying",
          "text": "pajautāšu, kāpēc viņš raud",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "then I understood why at (those) houses there are no mail boxes, why on the windows there is yellowish paper instead of curtains... and why nobody from here was invited to the wedding",
          "text": "tagad sapratu arī to, kāpēc pie mājas nav pasta kastītes, kāpēc logos aizkaru vietā dzeltē papīri, kāpēc te tāds klusums... un kāpēc neviens no šejienes nav aicināts kažās",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "why; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating cause, motive, purpose, and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions:",
        "why; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating cause, motive, purpose, and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions"
      ],
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          "why",
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        [
          "use",
          "use#English"
        ],
        [
          "introduce",
          "introduce#English"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate clause",
          "subordinate clause#English"
        ],
        [
          "indicating",
          "indicate#English"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause#English"
        ],
        [
          "motive",
          "motive#English"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose#English"
        ],
        [
          "relating",
          "relate#English"
        ],
        [
          "element",
          "element#English"
        ],
        [
          "main clause",
          "main clause#English"
        ],
        [
          "various",
          "various#English"
        ],
        [
          "different",
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        ],
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          "functions",
          "functions#English"
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    },
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        {
          "english": "the forests are being further and further cut down, because every ear the lumbermen had to cover a longer (= larger) piece (of territory)",
          "text": "meži gadu aiz gada tika tālāk izcirsti, kāpēc katru gadu meža cirtējiem bija jānocilpo aizvien garāks gabals",
          "type": "example"
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        "because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components"
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        [
          "tāpēc",
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        [
          "because",
          "because"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use#English"
        ],
        [
          "link",
          "link#English"
        ],
        [
          "two",
          "two#English"
        ],
        [
          "relatively",
          "relatively#English"
        ],
        [
          "independent",
          "independent#English"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence#English"
        ],
        [
          "component",
          "component#English"
        ]
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        "(colloquial, syn. tāpēc) because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components"
      ],
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        "colloquial"
      ]
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          "english": "why aren't you coming?",
          "text": "kāpēc tu nenāc?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why isn't the work done?",
          "text": "kāpēc darbs nav izdarīts?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why is he sad?",
          "text": "kāpēc viņš ir noskumis?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "“kāpēc jūs aizejat? es taču nedzenu jūs”, Līvja skarbi iesmējās ― “why are you leaving? I'm not driving you away,” Līvja laughed harshly",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why didn't Ilga take the hand he (had) offered? maybe she didn't need an apartment? or maybe she didn't want to study?",
          "text": "kāpēc gan Ilga nepieņemtu viņa pasniegto roku? vai tad viņai nav vajadzīgs dzīvoklis? vai tad viņa negrib mācīties?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "why am I writing all this? because",
          "text": "kāpēc es visu to rakstu?... tāpēc, ka es ilgojos un slāpstu dzīvības un dzīves",
          "type": "example"
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        "why? for what reason? for what purpose?"
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          "why"
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          "for"
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        "(in questions involving cause, motive, purpose, answerable with jo “because”) why? for what reason? for what purpose?"
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        {
          "english": "why go (on foot), if we can go (by car)?",
          "text": "kāpēc iet, ja varam braukt!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the speaker is annoyed",
          "text": "kāpēc Brīviņos nevar būt divdesmit pieci slaucami lopi? ― why can't there be 25 dairy cows in Brīviņi?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "why?, oh why?"
      ],
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          "why",
          "why"
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        "(in rhetorical questions, indicating something unnecessary, or which is not the case) why?, oh why?"
      ],
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        "in rhetorical questions",
        "indicating something unnecessary"
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    },
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      "ipa": "[kâːˈpêːts]"
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      "word": "kādēļ"
    },
    {
      "word": "kālab"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kāpēc"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Latvian adverbs",
    "Latvian compound terms",
    "Latvian conjunctions",
    "Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latvian entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "Latvian interrogative adverbs",
    "Latvian lemmas",
    "Latvian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latvian terms with audio links",
    "Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Latvian words with broken intonation"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "genitive",
        "3": "gen."
      },
      "expansion": "gen.",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "kā",
        "3": "pēc",
        "gloss1": "what􂀿gen.􂁀",
        "gloss2": "after; for"
      },
      "expansion": "kā (“what[gen.]”) + pēc (“after; for”)",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From kā (“what[gen.]”) + pēc (“after; for”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "conjunction"
      },
      "expansion": "kāpēc",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latvian",
  "lang_code": "lv",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "(a) subject:"
        },
        {
          "english": "it is not clear why he talks like that",
          "text": "nav saprotams, kāpēc viņš tā runā",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "they had to know everything, what we are and why we do nothing",
          "text": "viņiem te jāzina viss, kādi mēs esam un kāpēc neko nedarām",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(b) (secondary) predicate, attributive complement:",
          "text": "jaunajam cilvēkiemm ne prātā neienāca, kāpēc meitene tik labi atceras vēstuļu skaitu ― (the reason) why the girl remembered the number of letters so well didn't enter into the new guy's mind",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(c) direct object (e.g., reporting a question)",
          "text": "grūti uztvert stāsta galveno ideju, mērķi, kāpēc tās radīts ― it was difficult to perceive the story's main idea, the target (= reason) why it was created",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I don't know why he isn't coming",
          "text": "es nezinu, kāpēc viņš nenāk",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I will ask why he is crying",
          "text": "pajautāšu, kāpēc viņš raud",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "then I understood why at (those) houses there are no mail boxes, why on the windows there is yellowish paper instead of curtains... and why nobody from here was invited to the wedding",
          "text": "tagad sapratu arī to, kāpēc pie mājas nav pasta kastītes, kāpēc logos aizkaru vietā dzeltē papīri, kāpēc te tāds klusums... un kāpēc neviens no šejienes nav aicināts kažās",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "why; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating cause, motive, purpose, and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions:",
        "why; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating cause, motive, purpose, and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "why",
          "why"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use#English"
        ],
        [
          "introduce",
          "introduce#English"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate clause",
          "subordinate clause#English"
        ],
        [
          "indicating",
          "indicate#English"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause#English"
        ],
        [
          "motive",
          "motive#English"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose#English"
        ],
        [
          "relating",
          "relate#English"
        ],
        [
          "element",
          "element#English"
        ],
        [
          "main clause",
          "main clause#English"
        ],
        [
          "various",
          "various#English"
        ],
        [
          "different",
          "different#English"
        ],
        [
          "functions",
          "functions#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "why; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating cause, motive, purpose, and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian colloquialisms",
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "the forests are being further and further cut down, because every ear the lumbermen had to cover a longer (= larger) piece (of territory)",
          "text": "meži gadu aiz gada tika tālāk izcirsti, kāpēc katru gadu meža cirtējiem bija jānocilpo aizvien garāks gabals",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tāpēc",
          "tāpēc#Latvian"
        ],
        [
          "because",
          "because"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use#English"
        ],
        [
          "link",
          "link#English"
        ],
        [
          "two",
          "two#English"
        ],
        [
          "relatively",
          "relatively#English"
        ],
        [
          "independent",
          "independent#English"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence#English"
        ],
        [
          "component",
          "component#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, syn. tāpēc) because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkâːpêːts]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kâːˈpêːts]"
    },
    {
      "audio": "lv-riga-kāpēc.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c.ogg/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "lv-riga-kāpēc-2.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c-2.ogg/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c-2.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c-2.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kādēļ"
    },
    {
      "word": "kālab"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kāpēc"
}

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