1. ‘點解’ in
Cantonese literally means (though it’s a spoken language) ‘how to explain’; ‘為甚麼’ in Chinese literally means ‘for what’; ‘pourquoi’ in
French literally also means ‘for what’ (pour-quoi = for-what).
The above expressions would
all be translated into ‘why’ in English. In addition, to draw a question mark
with your index finger – it is the expression in sign language that is equivalent
to ‘why’, which is distinguished from ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’ etc.
No translators would hesitate
to translate ‘pourquoi’ into ‘why’, vice versa. According to Oxford Dictionary,
‘why’ means by ‘for what reason or purpose.’