causes — French to English

How French causes 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: causes (49 435). By style: everyday 18 · literary 7 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 2 647 · legal and administrative 1 189 · UN documents 45 571.

causes

Used about 44 399 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 765 · legal and administrative ≈ 842 · UN documents ≈ 41 773).

• 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

• Ayant, pour des causes diverses, échoué dans ses affaires, de tabellion il était tombé charretier et manoeuvre.

  Having, through various causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a carter and a laborer.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11210

• 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

• Loi sur les causes matrimoniales;

  The Matrimonial Causes Act;

  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 10481164

reasons

Used about 2 359 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 386 · legal and administrative ≈ 74 · UN documents ≈ 1 899).

• 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

• Ces absences temporaires peuvent avoir les causes suivantes:

  The possible reasons for such temporary absences are:

  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 1948697

• Les causes de la mortalité infantile et juvénile sont nombreuses et complexes.

  The reasons for infant and child mortality are numerous and complex.

  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 1223419

• Selon moi, c’est là que réside l’une des principales causes de la pauvreté dans certaines régions du monde.

  I think that this is one of the fundamental reasons for poverty in some parts of the world.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 653524

• Ces causes de défaillances ne s'appliquent que lorsque la conformité avec les exigences a été contrôlée.

  These reasons for failure apply only when compliance with requirements has been checked.

  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 4934331

root

Used about 55 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 55). Meaning: root in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cependant, nous abordons cette semaine un débat bien préparé sur le terrorisme, dont l'une des causes se trouve en Afghanistan sous le nom d' Oussama ben Laden.

  However, this week, we have a well-prepared debate on terrorism, the root of which can be found in Afghanistan, among other countries, under the guise of Osama bin Laden.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 234431

death

Used about 1 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1). Meaning: death in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le suicide est une des causes majeures de décès dans le pays à la plus longue espérance de vie.

  Suicide is a leading cause of death in the country with the longest life expectancy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and kotobaboke · checked, community translation · #373256 #373258

More sentences

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

• Les causes de l'accident sont encore floues.

  It is still unclear what caused the accident.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sctld · checked, community translation · #752456 #1156132

• Ils ont accepté d'enquêter sur les causes de l'incident.

  They agreed to investigate the cause of the incident.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #10547939 #10547944

• La police enquête sur les causes de l'accident.

  Police are investigating the cause of the accident.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by itk2 and mccarras · checked, community translation · #8991131 #4641004

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