"왜냐면"
I've been thinking about this a lot. Is 왜냐면 a 줄임말 of 왜느냐고 하면 (I don't even know if that is a vaild construction[emoji][emoji])? I don't know it's been on my mind and I wanted to ask

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왜냐면 is the abbreviated form of:
(1) 왜
(2) 냐고 하면 (a form of quoted speech 냐고 + 하면 means if): shortened to 냐면
(1) + (2) = 왜냐면
In addition, 왜냐하면 is a different adverb meaning the same.

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