explained — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: explained (37 117), explaineds (1). By style: everyday 133 · literary 10 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 1 628 · legal and administrative 6 651 · UN documents 28 690.

expliqué

Used about 16 253 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 017 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 018 · UN documents ≈ 11 125). Forms: expliquer, expliqué.

• He explained it to me.

  Il me l'a expliqué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Aiji · checked, community translation · #707293 #8405323

• We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that night.

  Nous avons expliqué que les réverbères n'avaient pas été allumés cette nuit-là.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9862

• You have not explained that, colleagues.

  Chers collègues, vous ne l'avez pas expliqué.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1575658

• Furthermore, the fluctuation of investments can be explained by the cyclical lifespan of certain machinery.

  Par ailleurs, la fluctuation des investissements peut s'expliquer par le cycle de vie de certains équipements.

  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 718455

• This difference in the wages of men and women can only be explained as gender-related.

  Cette différence ne peut s’expliquer que par le sexe.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4861403

More sentences

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

• My friend never explained anything to me.

  Mon ami ne donnait jamais d'explications.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #9114338 #9114207

• He explained to my son why it rains.

  Il expliqua à mon fils pourquoi il pleut.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #297935 #1135232

• He explained the political background of the war on TV.

  Il expliqua l'arrière-plan politique de la guerre à la télé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · #291881 #131212

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