怎麼了？你為甚麼傷心？

What's wrong? Why are you sad?

What's up? Why are you sad?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 怎麼了 zěnmele
  1. What's up?
  2. What's going on?
  3. What happened?
=2 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=2 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
=3 為 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=3 為 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
=4 甚 shén variant of 什 shén
=4 甚 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=5 麼 má exclamatory final particle
=5 麼 ma interrogative final particle
=5 麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什么 shénme, what?, indefinite 这么 zhème thus, etc
=5 麼 mó
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant
6 傷心 shāngxīn
  1. to grieve
  2. to be broken-hearted
  3. to feel deeply hurt