What for? in Different Languages. Learn How to Say and Translate
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What for? in Different Languages: Please find below many ways to say What for? in different languages. This page features translation of the word "What for?" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce What for? and how to read it.
Saying What for? in European Languages
| All Languages | Ways to say What for? | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Per cfare? | |
| Basque | Zertarako? | |
| Belarusian | Дзеля чаго? [Dzielia čaho?] | |
| Bosnian | Zašto? | |
| Bulgarian | За какво? [Za kakvo?] | |
| Catalan | Per a què? | |
| Corsican | Per chì ? | |
| Croatian | Za što? | |
| Czech | za co? | |
| Danish | Hvorfor? | |
| Dutch | Waarvoor? | |
| Estonian | Milleks? | |
| Finnish | Mitä varten? | |
| French | Pourquoi? | |
| Frisian | Wêrfoar? | |
| Galician | Para que? | |
| German | Wozu? | |
| Greek | Για ποιο λόγο? [Gia poio lógo?] | |
| Hungarian | Minek? | |
| Icelandic | Til hvers? | |
| Irish | Cad chuige? | |
| Italian | Per che cosa? | |
| Latvian | Priekš kam? | |
| Lithuanian | Kam? | |
| Luxembourgish | Firwat? | |
| Macedonian | За што? [Za što?] | |
| Maltese | Għal xiex? | |
| Norwegian | Til hva? | |
| Polish | Po co? | |
| Portuguese | Pelo que? | |
| Romanian | Pentru ce? | |
| Russian | Зачем? [Zachem?] | |
| Scots Gaelic | Dè airson? | |
| Serbian | За шта? [Za šta?] | |
| Slovak | Za čo? | |
| Slovenian | Kaj za? | |
| Spanish | ¿Para qué? | |
| Swedish | Varför då? | |
| Tatar | Нәрсә өчен? | |
| Ukrainian | Для чого? [Dlya choho?] | |
| Welsh | Am beth? | |
| Yiddish | צו וואס? [tsu vas?] |
Saying What for? in Asian Languages
Saying What for? in Middle-Eastern Languages
| All Languages | Ways to say What for? | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | لأي غرض؟ [li'ayi gharada?] | |
| Hebrew | בשביל מה? | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | Ji bo çi? | |
| Persian | برای چی؟ | |
Saying What for? in African Languages
| All Languages | Ways to say What for? | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Vir wat? | |
| Amharic | ለምን? [lemini?] | |
| Chichewa | Zachiyani? | |
| Hausa | Don me? | |
| Igbo | Maka gịnị? | |
| Kinyarwanda | Bite ho? | |
| Sesotho | Molemong oa eng? | |
| Shona | Zvechii? | |
| Somali | Maxaa loogu talagalay? | |
| Swahili | Kwa ajili ya nini? | |
| Xhosa | Ukwenzela ntoni? | |
| Yoruba | Fun kini? | |
| Zulu | Okwani? | |
Saying What for? in Austronesian Languages
| All Languages | Ways to say What for? | |
|---|---|---|
| Cebuano | Para unsa? | |
| Filipino | Para saan? | |
| Hawaiian | No ke aha? | |
| Indonesian | Untuk apa? | |
| Javanese | Kanggo apa? | |
| Malagasy | Hatao inona? | |
| Malay | Untuk apa? | |
| Maori | Hei aha? | |
| Samoan | Mo le a? | |
| Sundanese | Kanggo naon? | |
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