afin que

See also: afinque and afinqué

French

Etymology

Compare similar constructions with Italian affinché, Spanish a fin de que and Portuguese a fim de que.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fɛ̃ kə/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Conjunction

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 de 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

• “afin que”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012