Even because

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
1

Hi,

Dear native English speakers, do you have this combination of EVEN BECAUSE in the English language?

I didn’t talk to her about the subject even because I knew her interest in it is zero.

Thank you all for you help.

2

It sounds pretty odd to me, though the meaning is clear. A Google search of “even because” mainly shows hits asking how to translate even because from Portuguese, plus a few Bible verses, but all in older translations. Maybe it is a phrase that was more popular in the past, though I would avoid it.

3

If Luschen doesn’t mind, just my tuppence on it.
“I didn’t even talk to her about the subject because I knew her interest in it is zero”—‘even’ used here for emphasis, in the right place, and why make things muddier then?

I suspect you may have tried to compare it with ‘even though’—but the latter would turn the original on its head: I did talk to her about the subject even though I knew her interest in it is zero.

4

Forget ‘even’ and emphasise with ‘precisely because’.

5

Thanks Luschen and Alan for the help. Luschen, I’m a native Portuguese speaker. A friend of mine asked me about that and I also googled it and found the same you did.