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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



In English
Starting with
In Galician
Exact match
Title page
About
- beatific, beating, beatitude, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beautify, beauty, beaver, because, beck, beckon, beckoning, become, becoming, bed, bedclothes, bedding, bedeck


because


- conjunction
- porque

EN He remembered that because he always thought it such a good name for a villain.
GL Lembrábao porque sempre pensara que era un nome axeitado para un personaxe ruín.
- Fonte: CAR (1681)
- xa que

EN That is not conclusive, because some people do certain actions with the right hand and others with the left.
GL Isto non é concluínte, xa que hai persoas que fan certas accións coa dereita e outras coa esquerda.
- Fonte: ASA (4848)
- por

EN This bar -- perhaps because it was exorbitant in its prices -- seldom had more than one self-occupied couple in it at a time.
GL Neste bar (se cadra, polo exorbitante dos seus prezos), raras veces había máis dunha parella ocupada nos seus asuntos.
- Fonte: TER (187)
- pois

EN He felt the touch of the prefect's fingers as they had steadied his hand and at first he had thought he was going to shake hands with him because the fingers were soft and firm: but then in an instant he had heard the swish of the soutane sleeve and the crash.
GL Sentira o contacto dos dedos do prefecto cando foran esticar a súa man e ao primeiro pensara que ía darlle a man pois os dedos eran suaves e firmes: pero inmediatamente sentira o asubío da manga da sotana e o estalido.
- Fonte: RET (1187)
- por mor de

- Cando because vai seguido dun substantivo, en troques dunha frase, este debe de ir precedido da preposición of. EX: She doesn't go out because of the weather > Non sae polo tempo.

EN Some five miles southward of Sligo is a gloomy and tree-bordered pond, a great gathering-place of water-fowl, called, because of its form, the Heart Lake.
GL Unhas cinco millas ao sur de Sligo hai unha lúgubre lagoa rodeada de árbores por todas partes, un grande punto de encontro de aves acuáticas, chamada, por mor da súa forma, o lago Corazón.
- Fonte: CEL (57)
- por causa de

EN The little pools were places of life because of the water, and places of killing because of the water, too.
GL As pequenas lagoas eran por causa da auga lugares de vida e ó mesmo tempo lugares de morte.
- Fonte: PER (1439)
- debido a

EN Up to this, I had refrained from forcing them, largely because of the mystery on the other side.
GL Con estes novos coñecementos, persuadírame de que forzalas non era a mellor solución, sobre todo debido ó misterio que gardaban ó outro lado.
- Fonte: TEM (1524)