what for

Adverb

 * 1) For what purpose.
 * 2)  For what reason; why.
 * 1)  For what reason; why.
 * 1)  For what reason; why.

Translations

 * Hebrew: בשביל מה
 * Hungarian:
 * Spanish: para qué
 * Tibetan: ག་རེའི་དོན་ལ, ག་རེ་བྱད་ཡག་རེད , གང་གི་དོན་དུ


 * Arabic:, لِمَاذَا
 * Breton:
 * Chinese:
 * Hakka: 做麼个
 * Hokkien: 是按怎, 為甚物, 為啥物
 * Mandarin:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, minkä takia, minkä vuoksi, mitä varten
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:, בשביל מה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: untuk apa
 * Irish: cén fáth, cad chuige
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: どうして
 * Macedonian:, чуму
 * Malay: untuk apa
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: para quê?
 * Russian:, для чего́, за что́
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, av vilken anledning
 * Tibetan: ག་རེ་བྱས་ནས, ཅིའི་ཕྱིར
 * Tok Pisin: watpo
 * Ukrainian: навіщо
 * Yiddish: צו וואָס

Noun

 * 1)  An unspecified punishment or rebuke.
 * When your dad gets home, he'll give you (a) what for.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: co proto
 * Finnish: isän kädestä
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: како ороз бибер меље
 * Roman: kako oroz biber melje