cause — English to French

How English cause is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: cause in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cause (60 322), causes (52 426). By style: everyday 251 · literary 39 · biblical 303 · parliamentary 10 269 · legal and administrative 7 621 · UN documents 94 265.

cause

Used about 67 655 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 105 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 63 · parliamentary ≈ 5 621 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 937 · UN documents ≈ 58 916). Forms: cause, causes.

• What causes that?

  Qu'est-ce qui cause ça ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2254549 #6322036

• You are the cause of all my misfortunes!

  Vous êtes cause de tous mes malheurs!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17364

• Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

  Moïse porta la cause devant l’Éternel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 27:5

• It is therefore a good cause.

  C'est donc aujourd'hui une juste cause.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 89554

• 4 CAUSES OF THE ACCIDENT

  CAUSES DE L'ACCIDENT

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1654009

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• It didn't cause nightmares.

  Il ne faisait pas de cauchemars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gulliver and Amastan · checked, community translation · #2333017 #2074048

• I'm happy, 'cause I'm learning some Dutch.

  Je suis content, car je suis en train d'apprendre un peu de néerlandais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dorenda and sysko · checked, community translation · #388256 #388251

• Poverty is still the major cause of crime.

  La pauvreté est toujours la principale raison du crime.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and jonr · checked, community translation · #318541 #1588627

Grammar

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