No. 268 in Slovak
dôvodu
The Slovak word "dôvodu" means "reason" or "cause" in English.
In a sentence
Z dôvodu zlého počasia sme zrušili piknik.
Due to bad weather, we canceled the picnic.
The phrase 'z dôvodu' is used here to introduce a reason for why an action (canceling the picnic) was taken, equivalent to 'due to' in English.
Nemohli sme prísť načas do práce kvôli technickým dôvodom.
We couldn't arrive at work on time due to technical reasons.
The word 'dôvodom' in this sentence signifies a cause or justification (technical reasons) for the action, and it's modified by 'kvôli' to form 'kvôli dôvodom'.
Jeho odchod nebol bez dôvodu.
His departure was not without reason.
Here, 'bez dôvodu' is used idiomatically to imply the presence of a justification for the departure, denoting 'reason' in a literal sense.
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