because
/bɪˈkɒz/
US pronunciation
American sound/bɪˈkɒz/
bɪˈkɒz
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
bɪ - ˈkɒz -> because
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
because /bÇ'kɒz, bÇkǝz; US also -'kↄ:z/ conj
သောကြောင့်။ သဖြင့်။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်။
I did it because he told me to. ❍ Just because I don't complain, people think I'm satisfied.
❏ because of prep ကြောင့်။
They are here because of us. ❍ He walked slowly because of his bad leg. ❍ Because of his wife('s) being there, I said nothing about it.
More examples
- I couldn’t phone you because I hadn’t got your number.
- It’s a really useful book because it explains everything very clearly.
- The hotel’s difficult to find because the road isn’t signposted.
- ‘Why all this fuss about security?’ ‘Because it’s important.’
- He’s always criticizing me – maybe it’s because I’m a woman.
- [because of] : Stacey retired in 1987, partly because of ill health.
- Because of the Asian crisis, the company’s profits fell by 15% during 1997.
- George was obviously in a bad mood, because he didn’t even say good morning.
- I ended up with chocolate goo instead of cookies. And I still ate them, dammit, because chocolate.
- Going to bed way early because exhausted.
- Bye going to study for English because didn’t finish this morning because fell asleep.
- I love flat screen monitors because yay for occupying less desk space.
Synonyms
since, as, for the reason that, after all, all in all, all things considered, as a result of, as long as, as things go, being, by cause of, by reason of, by virtue of, considering, due to, everything being equal, for, for the sake of, forasmuch as, in as much as, in behalf of, in consideration of, in light of, in that, in the interest of, in view of, insofar, insomuch as, now that, on account of, on the grounds that, over, owing to, seeing, seeing that, thanks to, through, whereas
Cross references
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