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I have a simple question to be asked in japanese: WHY ARE YOU HERE?

I know the individual words for 'Why', 'here'. But I don't seem to know the
sentence structure for these types of questions.

Anyone has an insight (colloquial and formal version?)
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どうしてここにいる？ _Doushite koko ni iru?_ is the colloquial way. You use にいる _ni iru_
to talk about the location of living being (for non-living things say にある _ni
aru_. To make it polite, say どうしてここにいますか？ _Doushite koko ni imasu ka?_ ,
_imasu_ being the polite form of _iru_ , and _ka_ being a question marker
generally used with polite forms (with plain forms it sounds either a little
rough and aggressive, or like formal writing).

To go even further, you can express respect with the honorific constructions
どうしてここにおられますか？ _Doushite koko ni oraremasu ka?_ , どうしてこちらにいらっしゃいますか？ _Doushite
kochira ni irasshaimasu ka?_ , and どうしてこちらにいらっしゃいますでしょうか？ _Doushite kochira ni
irasshaimasu deshou ka?_ _Orareru_ and _irassharu_ , here conjugated to polite
forms, are honorific forms of _iru_ ( _irassharu_ is more honorific), and
_kochira_ is a polite form of _koko_ (it can also be polite self-reference, or
a neutral word for 'this way'; in the last use, it has the colloquial form こっち
_kocchi_ , which can be used a a self-reference, but is much less polite than
_kochira_ ).

Of course, if you required to express respect, どうしてこちらに？ _Doushite kochira
ni?_ may be your best option. Incomplete sentences often sound softer and less
demanding.
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