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English
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Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
for the sake of
- Because of; out of consideration for; in the interest of.
Release this man, for the sake of justice!
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because of
- Arabic: مِن أَجْلِ (min ʔajli)
- Egyptian Arabic: عشان (ʕašān)
- South Levantine Arabic: عشان (ʕašān)
- Armenian: համար (hy) (hamar), հանուն (hy) (hanun), սիրուն (hy) (sirun), խաթեր (hy) (xatʻer) (dialectal)
- Azerbaijani: xatir, xatirinə
- Bashkir: хаҡына (xaqına)
- Belarusian: дзе́ля (dzjélja), зара́дзі (zarádzi), для (dlja)
- Bulgarian: заради́ (bg) (zaradí)
- Catalan: per (a)mor de
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 為了／为了 (zh) (wèile)
- Cornish: a-barth, bar'
- Czech: kvůli (cs)
- Dutch: ter wille van (nl)
- Finnish: nimessä, vuoksi (fi), takia (fi), tähden (fi)
- French: pour l’amour de, dans l’intérêt de, au nom de (fr)
- Georgian: ხათრით (xatrit)
- German: wegen (de), um ... willen (de), halber (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ὑπέρ (hupér) (+ genitive)
- Hebrew: לְמַעַן (he) (l'máan), לִכְבוֹד (likh'vód)
- Hungarian: érdekében (hu), kedvéért (hu), végett (hu), tekintettel (hu)
- Irish: de gheall ar, as ucht, ar son, ar scáth, ar mhaithe le, de ghrá
- Italian: per il bene di
- Japanese: ...のために (ja) (... no tame ni), ...の為に (ja) (...のために, ...no tame ni)
- Korean: 을 위해서 (-eul wihaeseo), 때문에 (ko) (ttaemun-e) (follows a noun with -에 or a nominalized clause)
- Macedonian: поради (poradi)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: верч (verč)
- Persian: بخاطر (fa) (be-xâter), به جهت (be jehat), برای (fa) (barâye)
- Polish: na (pl), dla (pl)
- Portuguese: pelo bem de
- Punjabi: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē), ਲਈ (laī)
- Romanian: de dragul (+ genitive case)
- Russian: ра́ди (ru) (rádi) (+ genitive case), для (ru) (dlja)
- Scottish Gaelic: airson, son (colloquial), air sgàth
- Slovak: kvôli
- Spanish: por amor a, en nombre de
- Turkish: uğruna
- Ukrainian: зара́ди (zarády), для (uk) (dlja)
- Welsh: er mwyn
- Yiddish: לכּבֿוד (lekoved)
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