expliquer — French to English

How French expliquer 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: expliquaient (591), expliquait (1 807), explique (35 045), expliquent (7 644), expliquer (27 396), expliques (10), expliquez (218), expliquons (68), expliqué (23 381), expliquée (1 506), expliquées (1 291), expliqués (976). By style: everyday 578 · literary 31 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 7 629 · legal and administrative 10 320 · UN documents 81 352.

explain

Used about 48 744 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 472 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 750 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 620 · UN documents ≈ 37 879). Forms: explain, explained. Meaning: explain in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Expliquez-la-moi.

  Explain it to me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nyans and CM · checked, community translation · #1081547 #10614260

• Expliquons-nous sur ce mot.

  Let us explain this word.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18552

• 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

• Expliquons-nous.

  Let us explain ourselves.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725433

• Dans la négative, expliquez

  If no, please explain

  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 3586278

why

Used about 2 810 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 501 · legal and administrative ≈ 223 · UN documents ≈ 2 078). Meaning: why in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il n'a pas expliqué pourquoi il avait été absent.

  He gave no explanation why he had been absent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #292261 #180695

• «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

• La femme de Samson pleurait auprès de lui, et disait: Tu n’as pour moi que de la haine, et tu ne m’aimes pas; tu as proposé une énigme aux enfants de mon peuple, et tu ne me l’as point expliquée! Et il lui répondait: Je ne l’ai expliquée ni à mon père ni à ma mère; est-ce à toi que je l’expliquerais?

  Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 14:16

• 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

how

Used about 2 433 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 210 · legal and administrative ≈ 111 · UN documents ≈ 2 078). Meaning: how in the Elamur Dictionary.

• 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

• Expliquons clairement comment cette réforme est arrivée.

  Let us be clear how this reform came about.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1807914

• L'article 18 LIR explique le mode de détermination du bénéfice annuel du contribuable.

  Article 18 LIR explains how the taxpayer's annual profit is determined.

  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 4804395

• Nous ne nous expliquons pas bien cette inquiétude.

  We are unsure how this concern arose.

  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 6049390

• 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

More sentences

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

• Peux-tu expliquer un peu plus en détail ?

  Can you elaborate on this a little more?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dimitris and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1620876 #1648548

• Pourriez-vous m'expliquer de quoi il s'agit ?

  Could you tell me what this is all about?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and CK · checked, community translation · #3068927 #13613228

• Je n'ai pas à t'expliquer.

  I don't owe you an explanation.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by flowingwords and CK · checked, community translation · #2361365 #11925050

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