既然我们情报课的
“Since our Intelligence Section's”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
既然 我们情报课的
“Since our Intelligence Section's”
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“advisor, Major Takizawa, has been”
“Since this involves our department directly, we have full jurisdiction to handle it.”
Beginning an argument with '既然' ('since') frames the upcoming proposal as logically inevitable and backed by institutional roles, reducing the listener's ground to object.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since; given that
A formal conjunction initiating a clause that presents accepted common ground or established facts.
intelligence section; intelligence department
Bureaucratic and historical military terminology referring to an intelligence division.
Structural particle marking possession and trailing off before the noun head in the subsequent turn.