perché
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Participle
[edit]perché (feminine perchée, masculine plural perchés, feminine plural perchées)
Further reading
[edit]- “perché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Univerbation of per (“for”) + che (“which”), probably inherited from Vulgar Latin. Compare Neapolitan pecché, Sicilian pirchì, and further Romance parallels such as Sardinian pro chite, French pourquoi, Spanish porque/por qué, Portuguese porque/por que.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (standard) IPA(key): /perˈke/*
- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: per‧ché
- (Lombardy, parts of Emilia-Romagna) IPA(key): /perˈkɛ/*
Audio (Lombardy): (file)
Conjunction
[edit]perché
- because, why
- L'ho fatto perché volevo. ― I did it because I wanted to.
- (+ subj.) so, so that, in order that
- L'ho fatto perché potesse essere libero. ― I did it so that he could be free.
Adverb
[edit]perché
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]perché m (uncountable)
- the whys, the reason (why)
- Vorrei proprio sapere il perché. ― I would really like to know the reason.
- Non so perché, ma non mi sento bene. ― I don't know why, but I don't feel well.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]perché
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