니까

nikka

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Also spelled nika

because / since, speaker's own reasoning

Joins a reason to what follows: 10분마다 오니까 금방 올 거예요 is "since it comes every ten minutes, it'll be here soon". It carries the speaker's own judgement about why, which is why it is the natural choice for justifying a suggestion, an order, or a complaint. Compare 아서/어서, which states a cause more neutrally and cannot head a command. After a consonant-ending stem the same ending is spelled -으니까. Dropped at the end of a sentence with nothing after it, it lands as "…because, that's why".

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