due to

See also: dueto

English

Pronunciation

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Preposition

due to

1. Caused by; resulting from; because of.

   Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.

   • 1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:

     The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.

Usage notes

• Although usage of "due to" as an adverbial preposition is now common, some speakers will object and recommend because of, on account of, as a result of or owing to instead, reserving due for use as an adjective only. Reliable sources (such as Oxford, M-W, etc.) acknowledge this debate, then conclude that more recently this usage of "due to" is widely, although perhaps not entirely, acceptable. The adverbial use of "due to" is less common in formal written English.
• The conjunction due to the fact that, frequently encountered in business and politics, is generally rejected by style experts as being an unnecessarily wordy synonym of because.

Synonyms

• as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of

Translations

caused by

• Afrikaans: as gevolg van, weens (af)
• Azerbaijani: ucbatından, üzündən
• Belarusian: з-за (z-za), праз (praz), дзя́куючы (dzjákujučy) (thanks to)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: благодарение на (blagodarenie na)
• Catalan: degut a (ca)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 由於／由于 (zh) (yóuyú), 因為／因为 (zh) (yīnwèi, yīnwéi)

• Czech: kvůli (cs), způsoben (cs)
• Danish: på grund af
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: door (nl), veroorzaakt door, als gevolg van
• Esperanto: pro (eo)
• Finnish: takia (fi), johdosta (fi), johtuen (fi)
• French: à cause de (fr)
• Galician: por causa de, por mor de (gl)
• German: aufgrund (de), wegen (de)
• Greek: εξαιτίας (el) (exaitías), λόγω (el) (lógo)
• Hindi: के कारण (ke kāraṇ), के वजह से (ke vajah se)
• Hungarian: miatt (hu)
• Irish: de bharr, toisc
• Italian: a causa di
• Japanese: ...のせいで (ja) (... no sei de), ...のために (ja) (... no tame ni)
• Khmer: ដោយសារតែការ (daoy saara’ tae kaa), បង្កឡើងដោយ (bɑŋkɑɑ laəŋ daoy)
• Latin: propter + accusative, ob (la) + accusative
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: på grunn av (no), grunnet, takket være

  Nynorsk: på grunn av, grunna, takk vere, for skuld

• Polish: z powodu (pl) + genitive, ze względu na (pl)
• Portuguese: devido a (pt), devido (pt)
• Romanian: datorită (ro)
• Russian: и́з-за (ru) (íz-za) (because of), благодаря́ (ru) (blagodarjá) (thanks to)
• Spanish: debido a, a raíz de
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: వల్ల (te) (valla)
• Turkish: (-den) ötürü (tr)
• Ukrainian: че́рез (čérez), завдяки́ (zavdjaký) (thanks to)
• Venetian: par (vec)
• Vietnamese: do (vi), vì (vi), nhờ (vi), tại (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: o achos, oherwydd

Anagrams

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