puisque
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɥisk/
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Conjunction
puisque
- since, because
- ’’Puisqu’il ne sera pas de retour avant cinq heures, je propose que nous commencions sans lui.
- Since he will not be back before 5 o’clock, I suggest we begin without him.
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- Puisque nous sommes ici sans savoir ce qui nous attend un peu plus tard, laisser parler mon instinct me guérit.
- Since we're here without knowing what awaits us a little bit later, letting my instinct[s] speak heals me.
Usage notes
- Puisque is elided to puisqu’ before a vowel.
- Verbs subordinate to puisque do not traditionally take the subjunctive, but such usage is sometimes encountered in the speech of native Francophones.
Further reading
- “puisque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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