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Spanish
Etymology
Cognate with Portuguese já que.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝa ke/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃa ke/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒa ke/
Conjunction
ya que
- as, due to
- inasmuch as, since, because, given that, in that, now that
2015 October 3, “Peña Nieto y el populismo”, in El País:Y sin embargo, en Nueva York, el presidente les dice que están desinformados, ya que el verdadero peligro que enfrenta México es el populismo.- However, in New York, the president told them that they are misinformed, since the true danger that confronts Mexico is populism.
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