donc — French to English

How French donc is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: donc (318 642). By style: everyday 601 · literary 299 · biblical 565 · parliamentary 59 243 · legal and administrative 48 012 · UN documents 209 922.

therefore

Used about 193 318 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 283 · parliamentary ≈ 38 261 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 010 · UN documents ≈ 113 708). Meaning: therefore in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'écris, donc je suis.

  I write, therefore I am.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and mimosawang · checked, community translation · #13249888 #13257426

• Toute conversation devenait donc à peu près impossible.

  There was therefore no room for conversation.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1281

• Je vous exhorte donc à faire acte de charité envers lui;

  Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:8

• Nous pensons donc que c'est une bonne chose.

  We think that this is a good deal, therefore.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1098928

• La demande est donc rejetée.

  The claim is therefore rejected.

  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 3038986

thus

Used about 48 311 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 4 937 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 001 · UN documents ≈ 39 360). Meaning: thus in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le coup de Noir occupait la dernière liberté qui restait à cinq pierres blanches, sur deux chaînes. Ces cinq pierres ont donc été capturées et enlevées.

  Black's move occupied the last liberty that was left to five white stones, in two strings. Those five stones were thus captured and removed.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10361387 #10361407

• La Liste de juin a donc voté contre le rapport.

  The June List has thus voted against the report.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 844351

• Le risque global des dispositifs de protection pour prises est donc «grave».

  The overall risk of the socket protectors is thus ‘serious’.

  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 1969478

• La composition du Bureau de la neuvième session était donc la suivante:

  The Bureau of the Conference at its ninth session was thus constituted as follows: President

  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 12318551

• Il ne s'agit donc pas d'un lapsus linguae mais d'une campagne décidée.

  It is thus not a slip of the tongue but a deliberate campaign.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 185168

so

Used about 14 171 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 301 · literary ≈ 81 · biblical ≈ 106 · parliamentary ≈ 4 937 · UN documents ≈ 8 747). Meaning: so in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Où étais-tu donc ?

  So where were you?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kerbear407 · checked, community translation · #1664988 #458899

• —Il fallait donc le dire!

  "Why did not you say so then?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1109

• 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

• Ici résident donc les 100 % que nous ne voulons pas modifier.

  So the 100 %, which we cannot do anything to change, is included there.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1754326

• Donc, c ' est tout à fait normal.

  So this is completely normal.

  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 12530240

More sentences

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

• Il a encore neigé en Allemagne. Malheureusement, notre lièvre a eu un accident. La livraison aura donc un peu de retard. Néanmoins, Joyeuses Pâques!

  It snowed again in Germany. Unfortunately, our driver has had an accident. The delivery will be a little late. Nevertheless, Happy Easter!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · #6850357 #6850162

• N'agis donc pas comme si tu étais né l'année du chameau.

  Don't act as if you were born in the year of Camel.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and yujin · checked, community translation · #1089156 #1089179

• N'éveille donc pas ainsi mes espoirs.

  Don't raise my hopes like that.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #41528 #1989197

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