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afin que

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See also: afinque and afinqué

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.fɛ̃ kə/
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Conjunction

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afin que (+ subjunctive)

  1. 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 ... []

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