motif — French to English

How French motif 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: motif (30 765), motifs (46 547). By style: everyday 34 · literary 7 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 3 090 · legal and administrative 13 649 · UN documents 60 516.

grounds

Used about 23 380 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 547 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 550 · UN documents ≈ 18 281). Meaning: grounds in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Déserter de l'armée était motif de peine de mort.

  Desertion from the army was grounds for the death penalty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #5250662 #8483255

• Un malentendu subsiste concernant ces motifs de refus.

  A misunderstanding persists as to these grounds for refusal.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 524001

• Motifs justifiant l’ouverture de la procédure

  Grounds for initiating the procedure

  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 2283834

• L ' article 134 traite des motifs d ' expulsion.

  Article 134 provides for information on the grounds of removal.

  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 22014160

• L'appartenance à une association de jardins ouvriers n'est pas un motif de licenciement.

  Membership of an allotment association is not grounds for dismissal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #11477796 #893240

reason

Used about 19 930 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 933 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 118 · UN documents ≈ 13 868). Forms: reason, reasons. Meaning: reason in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quel est le motif de son voyage ?

  What's the reason for his trip?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and sundown · checked, community translation · #11075785 #598063

• Puis il demanda à Hans le motif de sa réponse.

  Then he asked Hans for his reason.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1333

• Les pharisiens l’abordèrent, et dirent, pour l’éprouver: Est-il permis à un homme de répudier sa femme pour un motif quelconque?

  Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 19:3

• Les motifs de cette réserve sont évidents.

  The reason for such a stipulation is very obvious.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1997370

• Motif de fermeture du compte

  Reason for closure of account

  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 849363

cause

Used about 2 752 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 225 · UN documents ≈ 2 522). Meaning: cause in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai été viré sans motif.

  I was fired without cause.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3825834 #6736882

• Ne conteste pas sans motif avec quelqu’un, Lorsqu’il ne t’a point fait de mal.

  Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 3:30

• Les résultats présentés dans le rapport constituent un motif de satisfaction.

  The results of the report are cause for satisfaction.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 951257

• Les omissions dans l ' acte de naissance n ' en sont pas nécessairement un motif (législation de Guanajuato et analogues);

  Omissions in a birth certificate do not necessarily cause ineligibility (Guanajuato and similar legislation);

  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 18670359

• Vous n'avez pas de motif de vous mettre en colère.

  You have no cause for anger.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #17498 #477162

More sentences

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

• Il n'y a pas de motif simple qui puisse servir de modèle.

  There is no simple pattern that can serve as a template.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #8657795 #8755942

• Je commence à apercevoir un motif.

  I'm beginning to see a pattern.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1102305 #1102395

• Il n'existe pas de motif simple qui puisse servir de modèle.

  There is no simple pattern that can serve as a template.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #8657795 #9191006

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