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du fait de

French, preposition/dy fɛ də/

du fait de is a French preposition meaning “because of, on account of, due to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does du fait de mean in English?

preposition

  1. 1

    because of, on account of, due to

  2. 2

    of someone's making

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How do you pronounce du fait de?

  • /dy fɛ də/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.