por que
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish por qué (“why”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porque, from Vulgar Latin [Term?]. By surface analysis, por (“for”) + que (“that”). Doublet of porque.
Cognate with Spanish por qué, French pourquoi, Italian perché.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: por quê
- Homophones: por quê, porque, porquê
Adverb
[edit]por que (not comparable) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
- (interrogative) why, what for, for what reason (introduces a question)
- Synonyms: por que é que, por que que
- Por que o céu é azul? ― Why is the sky blue?
- Por que este e não outro? ― Why this one and not another?
- Por que você não chama ela pra sair? ― Why don’t you ask her out?
- (relative) why (for which cause, reason, or purpose; introduces a subordinate clause)
- Não sei por que você se foi. ― I don’t know why you left.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see por, que, and usage notes
Usage notes
[edit]- Although this construction is officially considered unstressed when not clause-final (in which case it is accented, por quê), it is often pronounced with stress regardless of its position in the clause.
- This construction is not to be confused with literal ones using the words por (“by, through”) and que (“what, which”):
- Por que razão tudo mudou assim? ― For what reason did everything change?
- Por que caminho andar? ― By which path to walk?
Further reading
[edit]- “por que”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “por que”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpoɾ ke/ [ˈpoɾ ke]
- Rhymes: -oɾke
- Syllabification: por que
- IPA(key): /poɾ ˈke/ [poɾ ˈke] (misspelling)
- Syllabification: por que
- IPA(key): /ˈpoɾke/ [ˈpoɾ.ke] (misspelling)
- Syllabification: por‧que
- IPA(key): /poɾˈke/ [poɾˈke] (misspelling)
- Syllabification: por‧qué
Phrase
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- misspelling of por qué
Conjunction
[edit]- misspelling of porque
Noun
[edit]- misspelling of porqué
Further reading
[edit]- “porque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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