My history teacher was explaining a concept to us and he used the phrase "sine qua non", which I immediately recognized as Latin. I knew that "sine" meant "without" and qua was a relative pronoun in the ablative case, meaning "which". He explain to all of the non-Latin speakers that the phrase meant "without which, not" meaning that without one thing, another would not be possible, like a cause and effect.
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