Cause

faute de

FormalC1

What follows

faute de + a noun

Function

Cause

Meaning

Gives as cause what was MISSING: "because there was no".

Position and punctuation

at the start of the sentence · a comma after

Example

Faute de financement, le projet a été reporté d'un an.

For lack of funding, the project was postponed by a year.

In the DELF

the C1 synthesis