reason — English to French

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

What it means: reason in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reason (68 744), reasons (97 837). By style: everyday 606 · literary 57 · biblical 73 · parliamentary 27 175 · legal and administrative 26 083 · UN documents 112 587.

raisons

Used about 101 460 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 568 · literary ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 19 249 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 585 · UN documents ≈ 68 021). Forms: raison, raisons.

• I had my reasons.

  J'avais mes raisons.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4829393 #5555268

• You know the reason.

  Vous savez la raison.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5705

• It is for ethical reasons.

  C'est pour des raisons éthiques.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 918500

• Reasons for specific measures covered by these Guidelines

  Raisons des mesures spécifiques couvertes par les présentes lignes directrices

  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 5633775

• There are two reasons for this.

  Il y a à cela deux raisons.

  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 12085540

cette

Used about 4 648 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 849 · legal and administrative ≈ 272 · UN documents ≈ 3 518).

• I answered not a word, and for a very good reason.

  A cette question je ne répondis rien, et pour cause.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 204

• and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

  Cette famine qui suivra sera si forte qu’on ne s’apercevra plus de l’abondance dans le pays.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 41:31

• Those clients had reasons to be thankful for the existence of this rather unknown organisation.

  Ces clients pouvaient s’estimer heureux que cette organisation relativement peu connue existe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 849605

• The reason for the annulment was that the Commission had failed to indicate clearly in the statement of objections:

  Cette décision d’annuler les amendes était motivée par le fait que la Commission avait omis de préciser clairement, dans la communication des griefs:

  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 567752

• In other words, it is their job to make war and it is for this precise reason that their services are sought.

  Autrement dit, ils font profession de faire la guerre et leurs services sont précisément recherchés à cette fin.

  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 1161266

More sentences

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

• They accused him for no reason.

  Ils l'ont incriminé pour rien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #13363010 #12041984

• You can't reason with crazy people.

  On ne raisonne pas avec les dingues.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11201599 #1652415

• Probably the reason Tom can't go is because he doesn't have any money.

  Tom ne peut probablement pas y aller parce qu'il n'a pas d'argent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6227716 #7960298

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