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fiindcă
because /fiˈind.kə/
other#493 most common
Also: since, for the reason that
Example sentences
Nu vin fiindcă sunt bolnav.
I'm not coming because I'm sick.
Am întârziat fiindcă a plouat.
I was late because it rained.
Nu am putut să dorm fiindcă vecinii făceau gălăgie.
I couldn't sleep because the neighbors were making noise.
Fiindcă nu a răspuns la telefon, am plecat fără el.
Because he didn't answer the phone, we left without him.
Proiectul a fost amânat fiindcă bugetul nu a fost aprobat la timp.
The project was postponed because the budget wasn't approved in time.
Fiindcă discuția devenise tensionată, moderatorul a decis să întrerupă dezbaterea înainte ca lucrurile să scape de sub control.
Because the discussion had grown tense, the moderator decided to cut the debate short before things got out of hand.
Word family
a fito be
fiindbeing (gerund)
căthat (conjunction)deoarecebecause, since (more formal synonym)pentru căbecause (common spoken synonym)
Etymology
Fiindcă is a fusion of fiind, the gerund of a fi ("to be"), and că, the conjunction "that". The original sense was close to "it being that" or "seeing as", which shifted into a plain causal conjunction meaning "because". This kind of gerund-plus-că fusion is a common pattern in Romanian for building causal connectors.
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