Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈweə(r)ˌfɔː(r)/
- IPA: /ˈʍeə(r)ˌfɔː(r)/
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Konjunktiot |
| 1. | | vanhahtava |
| Adverbit |
| 2. | | vanhahtava |
Määritelmät
Adverbit
- (conjunctive, archaic) Why, for what reason, because of what.
- (conjunctive, archaic or formal) Therefore.
Konjunktiot
- (archaic) Because of which.
Substantiivit
- An intent or purpose; a why.
Esimerkit
- "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
- Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Romeo, O Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?
- Every why hath a wherefore.
- Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. (Isaiah 30:12-13)
- Wherefore it was that by the time the authorities awoke to the fact that something had happened Billy Byrne was fifty miles west of Joliet, bowling along aboard a fast Santa Fe freight.
- They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.
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