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căci
for (because) /ˈkətʃʲ/
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Also: because, since
Example sentences
Nu ies din casă, căci plouă.
I'm not going outside, because it's raining.
Ea e fericită, căci a primit vestea bună.
She is happy, because she received the good news.
Nu am putut veni la petrecere, căci eram bolnav.
I couldn't come to the party, because I was sick.
Trebuie să plecăm devreme, căci drumul este lung și traficul se poate aglomera.
We have to leave early, because the road is long and traffic can get heavy.
Scriitorul a ales să tacă, căci cuvintele nu ar fi putut exprima pe deplin durerea sa.
The writer chose to stay silent, for words could not have fully expressed his pain.
Filosofia nu caută răspunsuri definitive, căci însăși natura întrebării se transformă odată cu trecerea timpului.
Philosophy does not seek definitive answers, for the very nature of the question changes with time.
Word family
pentru căbecause (neutral, everyday)
fiindcăbecause, sincedeoarecesince, given that (formal)de vreme cegiven that, seeing as
Etymology
Căci comes from the Latin causal conjunction quia, meaning "because". It entered Romanian as part of the core inherited Latin vocabulary and settled into the role of a formal, written link between a statement and its reason. Over the centuries spoken Romanian shifted toward newer causal conjunctions like pentru că and fiindcă, leaving căci with a more literary flavor.
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