because
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English bi cause, from bi ("by") + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
Pronunciationbecause (not comparable)
- For the reason (that).
- On account (of), for sake (of).
- My life is ruined because of you!
- French: à cause de, parce que, à cause que
- German: wegen
- Italian: perché, poiché, siccome
- Portuguese: porque, pois, que, por causa de, devido a
- Russian: и́з-за
- Spanish: por, debido a, a causa de
- Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
- French: parce que c'est comme ça, parce que
- German: deshalb, darum, deswegen
- Italian: perché sì
- Portuguese: porque sim (positive), porque não (negative)
- Russian: потому́ что
- Spanish: porque sí (positive), porque no (negative)
- By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
- I hid myself because I was afraid.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
- As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.
- It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.
- I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.
- (obsolete) So that, in order that. [15th]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗, partition II, section 3, member 2:
- Simon […] set the house on fire where he was born, because nobody should point at it.
- (for the reason that) therefore, since, for, for that, forthy, for sake, forwhy (obsolete), as, inasmuch as, sith (obsolete), ∵ (mathematics symbol); see also Thesaurus:because
- French: parce que, car, à cause que
- German: weil, denn, da
- Italian: perché
- Portuguese: porque, já que
- Russian: потому́ что
- Spanish: porque, ya que, por cuanto
- German: denn
- Portuguese: porque
- Russian: потому́ что
- Spanish: ya que, por cuanto
- (colloquial, internet slang) On account of, because of. [from 20th c. or before]
- He rejected me because revenge, I guess.
- It doesn't work because reasons.
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