176: Because in Italian: How to Use Perché
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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How do you say “because” in Italian? It’s usually “perché”, but not always! Learn when and when not to use it in Italian.
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| 0:00.0 | Why do you study Italian? Why do you study Italian? |
| 0:06.1 | Why do you like Italy? |
| 0:11.7 | These are the kinds of questions you might have already been asked in Italy. |
| 0:17.0 | Or if you haven't yet, you probably will soon. |
| 0:21.1 | In today's episode, you'll find out exactly how to reply to these sorts of questions |
| 0:25.5 | using a very, very useful word, the Italian for because. Hi everyone and welcome. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi everyone and welcome to Learn Italian with Joy of Languages. |
| 0:48.3 | Today we are talking about how to say because in Italian. |
| 0:53.3 | It's one of those little words that pop up in almost every |
| 0:56.6 | conversation and it's very handy when answering questions like the ones you heard at |
| 1:02.5 | the start of the episode and that might be one of the actual reasons that you |
| 1:07.2 | wanted to learn Italian so that you can chat, ask questions and get to know |
| 1:12.0 | Italians better. Same because in Italian is mostly straightforward, but there are a couple of |
| 1:18.1 | differences compared to English. Before we get started, can we ask you a quick favor? If you're |
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| 1:40.1 | So usually when you want to say because in Italian, you use perke. |
| 1:47.9 | And that's spelled P-E-R-C-H-E. |
| 1:56.5 | The E on the end has an accent, that apostrophe-looking punctuation mark on top of some Italian |
| 2:03.8 | letters. |
| 2:05.1 | And that accent is basically just there to tell us to put the emphasis on the last part of the |
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