explique — French to English

How French explique 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: explique (35 045), expliques (10). By style: everyday 89 · literary 8 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 780 · legal and administrative 2 081 · UN documents 31 093.

explain

Used about 10 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 954 · UN documents ≈ 8 884). Forms: explain, explained, explains. Meaning: explain in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Explique-moi tout ça.

  Explain all this to me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and DJ_Saidez · checked, community translation · #9741309 #11795471

• La panique des héros s'explique.

  The panic of heroes can be explained.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7380

• Pierre, prenant la parole, lui dit: Explique-nous cette parabole.

  Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 15:15

• Cette procédure explique le temps nécessaire pour procéder à un enregistrement.

  This procedure explains the time required for registration to take place.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1569956

• il explique la variation historique de prix dans le portefeuille,

  it explains the historical price variation in the portfolio;

  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 2058218

due

Used about 4 092 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 111 · legal and administrative ≈ 173 · UN documents ≈ 3 807). Meaning: due in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce phénomène s'explique principalement par les mauvaises conditions de travail dans le secteur.

  This is mainly due to the poor working conditions that prevail in this area.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 914316

• Cette réduction s’explique en particulier par la scission et les cessions auxquelles il sera procédé.

  That reduced size is in particular due to the split and the divestitures that will be carried out.

  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 2261962

• 103. Dans une certaine mesure, la situation s ' explique par la façon dont les juges motivent traditionnellement leurs décisions.

  103. This is due to some extent to long-standing traditional approaches for explaining court decisions.

  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 25993241

• Ceci s'explique par le fait que nous tentions de nous mettre d'accord sur un amendement oral relatif au paragraphe 8.

  This was due to the fact that we were trying to agree the terms of an oral amendment relating to paragraph 8.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1129618

• Ceci s’explique, entre autres, par les obstacles découlant du fait que Statsbygg est soumise à un contrôle public et politique.

  That is i.a. due to obstacles arising from the fact that Statsbygg is subject to public and political control.

  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 5624485

why

Used about 311 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 223 · legal and administrative ≈ 87). Meaning: why in the Elamur Dictionary.

• «Quatrièmement: on ne s'explique pas pourquoi le règlement spécial de la prison des Madelonnettes interdit au prisonnier d'avoir une chaise, même en la payant.

  “Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by paying for it.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28715

• Ceci explique la manière dont nous avons posé nos questions.

  This is why we are asking questions the way we have.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1005138

• elle explique pourquoi le critère d'évaluation n'est pas rempli;

  state why the assessment criterion is not met;

  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 2207708

• —Oui! tout s'explique, tout s'enchaîne, tout est clair, et je comprends pourquoi Saknussemm, mis à l'index et forcé de cacher les découvertes de son génie, a dû enfouir dans un incompréhensible cryptogramme le secret...

  "Yes, yes; now it is all clear, now it is all unravelled; and I see why Saknussemm, put into the Index Expurgatorius, and compelled to hide the discoveries made by his genius, was obliged to bury in an incomprehensible cryptogram the secret--"

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 914

• C'est la raison qui explique l'absence de résolution du Conseil européen concernant ce moratoire jusqu'à présent.

  That is the reason why there has been no European Council resolution to date on this moratorium.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 966533

More sentences

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

• Ça s'explique comment ?

  How can this be?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #4384112 #14041880

• Comment cela s'explique-t-il ?

  How can that be?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2903017 #14041886

• Comment ça s'explique ?

  How can this be?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #4384112 #14041883

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