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ゆえに

therefore; hence (formal, written)

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Examples

  1. 我思う、ゆえに我あり。

    われおもう、ゆえにわれあり。

    I think, therefore I am.

  2. 証拠がない。ゆえに無罪である。

    しょうこがない。ゆえにむざいである。

    There is no evidence; hence he is innocent.

  3. 貧しいがゆえに進学をあきらめた人も多い。

    まずしいがゆえにしんがくをあきらめたひともおおい。

    Many gave up on further schooling precisely because they were poor.

  4. 若さゆえに犯した過ちだと、今では思う。

    わかさゆえにおかしたあやまちだと、いまではおもう。

    I now think it was a mistake made out of sheer youth.

Common patterns

~がゆえに
precisely because ~
ゆえに~である
hence ~ is so
それゆえに
for that reason

Memory tip

Highly literary. Besides starting a sentence, it appears as ~がゆえに / 名詞+ゆえに, which stresses that this very quality is the cause — 若さゆえの失敗 is a failure that came from being young.

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