French
Pronunciation
Conjunction
afin que (+ subjunctive)
- so that
Je vais au lit afin que mon père se taise.- I'm going to bed so that my father will shut up.
1943, Antoine Saint-Exupéry, chapter XVII, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 68:— Je me demande, dit-il, si les étoiles sont éclairées afin que chacun puisse un jour retrouver la sienne. […]- “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again ... […] ”
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