English
Adverb
why not (not comparable)
- Why is that not true?
- I don't want to go out today. — Why not?
- Used to state that one has no objection to and approves of a proposal.
- Let's have pizza for lunch. — Yes, why not?
- Used to introduce a proposal.
- Why not try turning the handle in the other direction to see if that opens the window?
Synonyms
Translations
why is that not true
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- Japanese: なぜ違う (ja) (naze chigau)
- Latin: cūr nōn
- Persian: چرا؟ (fa) (čerâ)
- Portuguese: por que não
- Russian: а почему́ (a počemú), а что́ так (a štó tak)
- Slovene: zakaj ne
- Spanish: por qué no
- Swedish: varför inte
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to state one has no objection
- Arabic: لِمَ لَا؟ (lima lā?)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 何不 (zh) (hébù), 為什麼不呢, 为什么不呢 (wèishéme bù ne)
- Esperanto: kial ne
- Faroese: hví ikki
- Finnish: miksipä ei, mikä ettei
- French: pourquoi pas (fr)
- German: warum nicht, wieso nicht
- Hebrew: לָמָּה לֹא (láma ló)
- Hungarian: miért ne
- Icelandic: af hverju ekki (is), hví ekki (formal)
- Italian: perché no
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- Japanese: もちろん (ja) (mochiron)
- Latin: quid ni
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvorfor ikke
- Persian: چرا که نه؟ (čerâ ke ná)
- Portuguese: por que não
- Russian: почему́ бы и нет (počemú by i net)
- Scottish Gaelic: carson nach + verb
- Serbo-Croatian: зашто да не, zašto da ne
- Slovene: zakaj pa ne
- Spanish: por qué no
- Turkish: neden olmasın
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to introduce a proposal
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- Navajo: dooísh léiʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvorfor ikke
- Portuguese: por que não
- Russian: почему́ бы не (počemú by ne)
- Spanish: por qué no
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