pourquoi
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French parquoy, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French por quoi.
Pronunciation
Adverb
pourquoi
- why
- Pourquoi as-tu fait ceci ? - Why did you do this?
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Further reading
- “pourquoi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.