how come

Etymology
US English, 1848, probably from older forms such as “How comes it that... ?” or “How does it come that... ?” and “How did it come to be like this?”

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1)  Why; why is it; for what reason or purpose; due to what cause?

Usage notes
differs from in that the word order of the question is the same as that of a statement. Compare:

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hoekom
 * Armenian: ինչպես է ստացվում
 * Bulgarian:, как така
 * Catalan: com és?,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, , jak to přijde, že
 * Dutch: hoe komt het dat,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, minkä takia
 * French: comment se fait-il que, comment se fait-ce que , comment ça se fait que ,
 * Georgian: როგორ მოხდა
 * German: wie kommt es dass,
 * Greek: πώς κι έτσι
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Af hverju
 * Italian: come mai
 * Japanese: 何で
 * Korean:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , , jak to
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: cum se face, cum de
 * Russian:, , почему́ э́то, как так, как это так
 * Spanish: ¿cómo es que,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Ukrainian: як так
 * Vietnamese:, tai sao