conjunction
budući da
since, given that (formal/written; opens a clause, usually sentence-initial; spoken equivalent pošto)
поскольку, так как (книжн.-письм.; вводит придаточное, обычно в начале: Budući da nemamo podatke, …; в речи чаще pošto)
With stress
bùdūći da
In Cyrillic
будући да
Examples from the lessons
budući da — союз «поскольку»
Budući da pada kiša, ostajemo kod kuće. «Поскольку идёт дождь, мы остаёмся дома.»
Present verbal adverbпричины: zato što, pošto, budući da
да — Budući da je kasno, idemo kući.
The complex sentence synthesisedBudući da je ispit u ponedeljak, navikni se.
Раз экзамен в понедельник, привыкай.
Present verbal adverbIn phrasebooks
Appears in lessons
Next to it in the phrasebook
- òdnosnothat is, i.e.; or; respectively (neutral-formal, very frequent in…
- nàimenamely
- u svȁkom slȕčajuin any case
- s òbzirom na tȏgiven this, in view of that (neutral-formal); before a clause s…
- ukolìkōif, provided that (formal/written variant of ako); not 'insofar as'
- s jèdnē stráneon the one hand (neutral; pairs with s druge strane)
- nȁprotīvon the contrary
- štàvišemoreover, what is more (written-neutral; escalates the previous point)
- drȕgim réčimain other words
- dodúšēadmittedly, though (concessive; neutral, common in speech too)