(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P · Example: wǒ zhī suǒ yǐ tǎo yàn tā "the reason why I dislike him (is...)"

Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

They didn't swim because it was cold.

What I’m getting at is that Zamenhof not only built a linguistic object, but that behind that was an idea — an idea of brotherhood, a pacifist idea. That strength of an ideal — for which Esperantists were even persecuted under Nazism and Stalinism — is still conserved by the community of Esperantists. One cannot say that it has failed, but one thing needs to be said: the reason why any language is successful is always indefinable.

We're on strike because the company hasn't improved our wages.

Christopher Columbus wasn't an explorer because he loved the sea. He was an explorer because he hated Spanish jails.