Usage examples of "почему" in Russian with translation to English

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Почему ты всегда такой упырь? Why do you act like a click all the time?
Почему вы еще не спите? How come you're still awake?
Почему она смотрит на меня? Wherefore doth she look at me?
* Я могу задать все вопросы, все Почему и все Откуда. * I can ask all the questions, the whys and the wheres.
Почему мы в этом уверены? Why do we have that belief?
Почему не слышно органной музыки? How come there's no organ music?
Естра, брат, почему же вас нет? Sister, brother, wherefore art thou?
Он изучает свои "что" и "почему", свои причины и взаимосвязи, свою логику, свои заблуждения. He learns his whys and wherefores, his causes and correlations, his logic, his fallacies.
Тогда почему она заправляет постель? Then why is she making up a bed?
Почему мы не можем просто отдохнуть? How come we can't go out anymore and have a nice time?
Почему бы мне не быть счастливым? Wherefore should I not be happy?
Почему вы не отдаёте честь? Why didn't you salute?
А почему я в резиновых сапогах? How come I'm wearing gumboots?
Но почему же нас не умертвили? Wherefore did they not that hour destroy us?
Почему экономисты проглядели Арабскую весну Why Economists Missed the Arab Spring
Почему мы не переехали в хозяйскую спальную? How come we haven't moved into the master bedroom?
Почему вы одеты наряднее, чем все остальные? Wherefore have you decorated yourself better than all the rest?
Ларри, почему ты так торопишься? Larry, why are you in such a hurry?
Почему мы раньше не ходили за покупками? How come we never go shopping together?
Но почему, злодей, убил ты брата моего? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
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