{"id":16486,"date":"2023-08-29T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:46:21","slug":"per-cui-or-percui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/en\/italian-grammar\/how-do-you-spell-that\/per-cui-or-percui\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it written per cui or percui?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The correct form is<strong> per cui<\/strong>, detached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The form <strong>percui<\/strong>, all attached, is wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The expression per cui\u00a0 is composed of the <em>simple preposition<\/em> &#8220;per&#8221; and the<em> relative pronoun<\/em> &#8220;cui&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Per cui has two different meanings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.2015px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In colloquial Italian, the expression <strong>per cui<\/strong> is used as a <strong><em>conjunctive locution<\/em><\/strong> with <em>deductive or conclusive value<\/em> in reference to what was previously stated. In this case &#8220;cui&#8221; takes on the value of that and the expression is used with the meaning of &#8220;e perci\u00f2&#8221; (therefore), &#8220;e per questo motivo&#8221; (and for this reason).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 15.2015px;\"><p>Gli insegnanti hanno scioperato\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">per cui<\/span>\u00a0non sono andato a scuola.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 15.2015px;\"><p>Stamattina c&#8217;era molto traffico\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">per cui<\/span>\u00a0sono arrivato in ritardo a lavoro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 15.2015px;\"><p>Ha iniziato a piovere all&#8217;improvviso\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">per cui<\/span>\u00a0abbiamo cercato un posto dove ripararci.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In these cases, the expression <em>per cui<\/em> can be replaced by the expressions &#8221;motivo per cui&#8221;, &#8220;ragione per cui&#8221;,etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In other cases, <strong><em>cui<\/em><\/strong> works as a <strong><em>relative pronoun<\/em><\/strong> in indirect complements and as the only form for masculine\/feminine gender and singular\/plural number. In this case, <em>cui<\/em> is used to refer to a previously named person, animal or thing and cannot be replaced by <em>che.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>La persona<\/strong><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"> per cui<\/span> lavoro \u00e8 molto gentile e disponibile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Il gatto<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">per cui<\/span> sono andato dal veterinario \u00e8 di Maria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>La ragione<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">per cui<\/span> ti ho contattata \u00e8 perch\u00e9 ho bisogno del tuo aiuto.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Perci\u00f2, per ci\u00f2, per cui: test yourself with this Italian exercise.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-774\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"774\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Perci\u00f2 o per ci\u00f2, per cui: esercizio.\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>See also:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/en\/italian-grammar\/how-do-you-spell-that\/percio-or-per-cio\/\">Is it written perci\u00f2 or per ci\u00f2?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The correct form is per cui, detached. The form percui, all attached, is wrong. The expression per cui\u00a0 is composed of the simple preposition &#8220;per&#8221; and the relative pronoun &#8220;cui&#8221;. Per cui has two different meanings. In colloquial Italian, the expression per cui is used as a conjunctive locution with deductive or conclusive value in reference to what was previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-do-you-spell-that"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is it written per cui or percui? - One World Italiano<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The correct form is &quot;per cui&quot;, detached. 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