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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "untuk apa"
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"word": "cén fáth"
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"word": "cad chuige"
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "perché"
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"word": "untuk apa"
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"word": "po co"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "dlaczego"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "para quê?"
},
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"roman": "dlja čevó",
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"word": "для чего́"
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "varför"
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"word": "av vilken anledning"
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"word": "ཅིའི་ཕྱིར"
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "watpo"
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "навіщо"
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"roman": "tsu vos",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
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"sense": "for what purpose",
"word": "בשביל מה"
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"sense": "for what purpose",
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"word": "para qué"
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"roman": "ga re'i don la",
"sense": "for what purpose",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "ག་རེའི་དོན་ལ"
},
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"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ga re byad yag red",
"sense": "for what purpose",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
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"word": "ག་རེ་བྱད་ཡག་རེད"
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"code": "bo",
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"roman": "gang gi don du",
"sense": "for what purpose",
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"word": "གང་གི་དོན་དུ"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "lima",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "لِمَ"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "limāḏā",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "لِمَاذَا"
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"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "da betra"
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"code": "hak",
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "做麼个"
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"code": "hak",
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"roman": "cho-má-ke",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "做么个"
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"roman": "sī-án-choáⁿ",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
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"word": "是按怎"
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"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"tags": [
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"word": "為甚物"
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"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "ūi-sím-mi̍h",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"tags": [
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"word": "为甚物"
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"code": "nan-hbl",
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"tags": [
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"word": "為啥物"
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"word": "為什麼"
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{
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"roman": "wèishénme",
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"word": "为什么"
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "miks"
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "miksi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "minkä takia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "minkä vuoksi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "mitä varten"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "pourquoi"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "wofür"
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{
"code": "he",
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"roman": "láma",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "למה"
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{
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"word": "בשביל מה"
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"word": "miért"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "untuk apa"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "cén fáth"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "cad chuige"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "perché"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dōshite",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "どうして"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zošto",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "зошто"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "čumu",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "чуму"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "untuk apa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "po co"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "dlaczego"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "para quê?"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "začém",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "заче́м"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dlja čevó",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "для чего́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "za štó",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "за что́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "por qué"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "varför"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "av vilken anledning"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ga re byas nas",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "ག་རེ་བྱས་ནས"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ci'i phyir",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "ཅིའི་ཕྱིར"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "watpo"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "naviščo",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "навіщо"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "tsu vos",
"sense": "for what reason; why",
"word": "צו וואָס"
}
],
"word": "what for"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English interrogative adverbs",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncomparable adverbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "what fors",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "what for (plural what fors)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "When your dad gets home, he'll give you (a) what for."
},
{
"ref": "1968, Oliver!, 01:12:40",
"roman": "- Bill will give you \"what for\" if you don't fork out.",
"text": "- Fagin, I'm waiting.\n- Waiting, my dear? What for?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Retro Studios, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Nintendo, Wii, level/area: Cranky Kong's shop",
"text": "Cranky Kong: 'NOW GET OUT THERE AND GIVE THOSE LITTLE DRUM GUYS WHAT FOR. YES, I SAID \"WHAT FOR.\" I'M OLD. GET OVER IT.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unspecified punishment or rebuke."
],
"links": [
[
"unspecified",
"unspecified"
],
[
"punishment",
"punishment"
],
[
"rebuke",
"rebuke"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, colloquial, usually with \"give someone\") An unspecified punishment or rebuke."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with \"give someone\""
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"idiomatic",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-what for.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fb/En-au-what_for.ogg/En-au-what_for.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/En-au-what_for.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Southern-US"
],
"word": "whuffo"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "an unspecified punishment or rebuke",
"word": "co proto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an unspecified punishment or rebuke",
"word": "isän kädestä"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an unspecified punishment or rebuke",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nauczka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzbúčka",
"sense": "an unspecified punishment or rebuke",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "взбу́чка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an unspecified punishment or rebuke",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "како ороз бибер меље"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an unspecified punishment or rebuke",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "kako oroz biber melje"
}
],
"word": "what for"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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