понеже

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Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Church Slavonic пон҄еже (ponʹeže); cognates include Russian поне́же (ponéže) (archaic and literary).

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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поне́же (ponéže)

  1. because, since
    Synonym: защо́то (zaštóto)

References

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  • понеже”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • понеже”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “понеже”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 515

Old Church Slavonic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poňeže. By surface analysis, понѥ (ponje) +‎ -же (-že).

Conjunction

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пон҄еже (ponʹeže)

  1. because, since
  2. as long as, to what extent
  3. therefore, owing to
  4. when

Descendants

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  • Bulgarian: поне́же (ponéže)
  • Russian: поне́же (ponéže)

References

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  • понеже”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024
  • Mali staroslavensko-hrvatski rječnik, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2004

Russian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пон҄еже (ponʹeže), cognates include Bulgarian поне́же (ponéže).

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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поне́же (ponéže)

  1. (archaic, literary) inasmuch as, as, since, because
    Synonyms: поско́льку (poskólʹku), потому́ что (potomú što)