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[fierce glacier]

Please be patient

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[blissful marlin]

You can think of it as joining two sentences and needing to choose the correct relative pronoun to do that:

• C’est la raison. + Il est absent pour la raison.
  As two separate sentences, they don't convey that much meaning.
  To combine them, you need to use the relative pronoun « laquelle » since the noun « la raison » is feminine singular and say…
• C'est la raison pour laquelle il est absent.
  What we did here is that we replaced « la raison » with the relative pronoun « laquelle » in the first sentence, brought it and the preposition « pour » to the start, and then combined the two sentences together.

[tidal cloak]

Also, pourquoi isn't a relative pronoun.

You can also say "c'est pourquoi il est absent".

[worn lance]

Ou c'est la raison de son absence

Plus élégant...