cause — French to English

How French cause is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cause (120 465), causes (49 435). By style: everyday 602 · literary 49 · biblical 554 · parliamentary 13 069 · legal and administrative 21 317 · UN documents 134 309.

causes

Used about 94 506 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 219 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 65 · parliamentary ≈ 6 535 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 326 · UN documents ≈ 78 347). Forms: cause, causes.

• Quelles sont les causes ?

  What are the causes?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #4496355 #7352899

• Vous êtes cause de tous mes malheurs!

  You are the cause of all my misfortunes!

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

• Défends ma cause, et rachète-moi; Rends-moi la vie selon ta promesse!

  Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:154

• Il y a de multiples causes.

  There are numerous causes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1134669

• CAUSES DE L'ACCIDENT

  4 CAUSES OF THE 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

due

Used about 7 101 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 332 · UN documents ≈ 5 596). Meaning: due in the Elamur Dictionary.

• À cause de la tempête, il n'est pas arrivé.

  Due to the storm, he didn't arrive.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #2730109 #8751285

• La cause en est claire, vous le savez, cela est dû au nombre des points inscrits à l'ordre du jour de mercredi après-midi.

  The reason for this is clear, and as you know is due to the large number of items that we have to deal with on Wednesday afternoon.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1627884

• Des pertes de raffinage peuvent se produire pendant la distillation à cause de l’évaporation.

  Losses may occur during the distillation processes due to evaporation.

  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 5034472

• :: Remboursements pour cause de non-exécution ou de procédure judiciaire

  Refunds provided due to either non-compliance or litigation

  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 15303032

• À cause de ma maladie, je n'ai pu te rendre visite.

  Due to my illness, I couldn't visit you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and jhomel · checked, community translation · #5069942 #134789

because

Used about 6 973 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 219 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 152 · parliamentary ≈ 545 · legal and administrative ≈ 444 · UN documents ≈ 5 596). Meaning: because in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je souffre à cause de toi.

  I suffer because of you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · #11146042 #11146037

• «C'est peut-être à cause de cela», dit-elle.

  “Perhaps it is because of this,” said she.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1610

• Il y eut donc, à cause de lui, division parmi la foule.

  So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:43

• Les frontières sont, en effet, relativement faciles à franchir à cause de l'espace Schengen".

  It is, indeed, fairly easy to cross frontiers because of the Schengen area' .

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 239373

• Cela reviendrait à renoncer à la défense contre les pratiques commerciales déloyales juste à cause de l'éventualité d'une concurrence de la part d'autres pays tiers.

  It would also mean denying protection against unfair trade just because of the possibility of new competition from other third countries.

  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 2118323

one

Used about 6 436 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 817 · UN documents ≈ 5 596). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.

• On regarde à la superficie ces bouillonnements sans cause; on n'aperçoit pas l'hydre qui se traîne au fond.

  One gazes at the surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra which crawls on the bottom.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31030

• Mais si quelqu’un souffre comme chrétien, qu’il n’en ait point honte, et que plutôt il glorifie Dieu à cause de ce nom.

  But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 4:16

• La pêche illicite est une des causes fondamentales à l'origine de l'épuisement de nombreux stocks de poissons.

  Illegal fishing is one of the most fundamental reasons for the collapse of many fish stocks.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 910265

• C ' est l ' une des grandes causes de défection dans cet établissement.

  That is one of the main reasons for the high dropout rate in this part of the university.

  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 8985591

• Or, à qui vous pardonnez, je pardonne aussi; et ce que j’ai pardonné, si j’ai pardonné quelque chose, c’est à cause de vous, en présence de Christ,

  Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:10

More sentences

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

• Ce n'est pas à cause de cela que je suis ici.

  That's not why I'm here.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and CK · checked, community translation · #3591083 #3592280

• Je souffre encore à cause du décalage horaire.

  I'm still suffering from jet lag.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · #255647 #947871

• À cause de la tempête, ils sont arrivés en retard.

  Owing to the storm, they arrived late.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and autuno · checked, community translation · #325280 #135567

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