perché
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Pronunciation edit
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Participle edit
perché (feminine perchée, masculine plural perchés, feminine plural perchées)
Further reading edit
- “perché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
Univerbation of per (“for”) + che (“which”), probably inherited from Vulgar Latin. Compare Neapolitan pecché, Sicilian pirchì, and further Romance parallels such as Sardinian pro chite, French pourquoi, Spanish porque/por qué, Portuguese porque/por que.
Pronunciation edit
- (standard) IPA(key): /perˈke/*
- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: per‧ché
- (Lombardy, parts of Emilia-Romagna) IPA(key): /perˈkɛ/*
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Conjunction edit
perché
- because, why
- L'ho fatto perché volevo. ― I did it because I wanted to.
- (+ subj.) so, so that, in order that
- L'ho fatto perché potesse essere libero. ― I did it so that he could be free.
Adverb edit
perché
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Noun edit
perché m (uncountable)
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Verb edit
perché