explanation — English to French

How English explanation is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: explanation in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: explanation (25 960), explanations (11 007). By style: everyday 184 · literary 7 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 3 470 · legal and administrative 3 773 · UN documents 29 532.

explication

Used about 21 773 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 178 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 711 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 498 · UN documents ≈ 15 381). Forms: explication, explications.

• I have no explanation.

  Je n'ai pas d'explication.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2360120 #3648318

• This explanation satisfied Charmolue.

  Cette explication satisfit Charmolue.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4388

• Oral explanations of vote

  Explications de vote orales

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1313255

• to ask for an oral explanation on site.

  demander une explication orale sur place.

  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 2918826

• Explanations for this would be desirable.

  Des explications seraient souhaitables.

  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 20425861

vote

Used about 5 646 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108 · UN documents ≈ 5 537).

• Your explanations will be taken into account tomorrow during the vote.

  Vos précisions seront prises en considération au cours du vote de demain.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1912344

• The representative of Argentina made a statement in explanation of vote.

  Le représentant de l ' Argentine explique son vote.

  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 12431504

• Thankfully, God wanted me to be here so I could give my explanations of votes and I was not hurt.

  Grâce au Ciel, le bon Dieu voulait que je me trouve ici pour faire mes déclarations de vote et il ne m'est rien arrivé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 88089

• In explanation of vote after the vote, a statement was made by the representative of Cuba.

  Le représentant de Cuba explique son vote après le vote.

  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 9493450

• Mr President, thank you very much for offering me this opportunity to offer my explanation of vote on the suspension of the Doha Round.

  (EN) Monsieur le Président, merci beaucoup de me donner l'occasion d'expliquer mon vote sur la suspension du cycle de Doha.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1145362

More sentences

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

• Thank you for your explanation.

  Merci de vos éclaircissements.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Rovo · checked, community translation · #5807524 #1983391

• What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

  Ce qui est haïssable pour toi, ne le fais pas à ton prochain ; c'est là toute la Torah, le reste n'est que commentaire. Maintenant, va et étudie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #5794033 #8404305

• “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation

  Voici ce que j’ai trouvé, dit l’Ecclésiaste, en examinant les choses une à une pour en saisir la raison;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 7:27

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