Maxaad... u....? Why did you...?

We have learned how to ask What, Where and When questions. Now, we will learn how to ask Why. 
There are two ways to ask Why questions. If you just want to ask why, then just say,


Waayo? - Why?

But if you specifically want to ask why someone did something, then you have to use 'Maxa... u'. We saw before that 'Maxa' means 'what'. 'U' is a preposition that we covered before, it means 'for,to'. Therefore, 'Maxa..u' means 'for what' or 'why'. This is similar to the French pourquoi, or the Spanish porque, or in Arabic limadha. So,

Maxaan u ...? - Why did I ...?
Maxaad u ...? - Why did you...?
Muxuu u ...? - Why did he...?
Maxay u ...? - Why did she...?
Maxaanu u...? - Why did we...?
Maxeynu u...? - Why did we...?
Maxaad u...? - Why did you...?
Maxay u...? - Why did they...?


Then combine the above constructions with the appropriate verb conjugation and you can start to ask 'Why did you...?' questions.


Maxaad u cuntay? - Why did you eat it?
Maxay u baxeen? - Why did they go out?
Muxuu u dilay?     - Why did he kill (him/her/them)?
Maxaan u seexday? - Why did I sleep?
Maxeynu u nimid? - Why did we come?
Maxay u iibsatey? - Why did she buy it?
etc.