既然

HSK 4#1629 by frequencyradical 旡

jì rán["c"]

since; as; this being the case

Examples

你既然已经知道了，还问什么？

If you already know, why are you still asking?

既然你们这么说，那让我再想想。

Since you all say that, I must think again.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.