afin que
Appearance
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]- so that
- Je vais au lit afin que mon père se taise.
- I'm going to bed so that my father will shut up.
- 1943, Antoine Saint-Exupéry, chapter XVII, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 68:
- — Je me demande, dit-il, si les étoiles sont éclairées afin que chacun puisse un jour retrouver la sienne. […]
- “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again ... […] ”
Further reading
[edit]- “afin que”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.