ya que

Cognate with Portuguese já que.

• Syllabification: ya que

ya que

1. as, due to
2. inasmuch as, since, because, given that, in that, now that
   • 2015 October 3, “Peña Nieto y el populismo”, in El País:

     Y sin embargo, en Nueva York, el presidente les dice que están desinformados, ya que el verdadero peligro que enfrenta México es el populismo.

     However, in New York, the president told them that they are misinformed, since the true danger that confronts Mexico is populism.

• “ya que”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28