motifs — French to English

How French motifs is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: motifs (46 547). By style: everyday 10 · literary 3 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 2 063 · legal and administrative 10 129 · UN documents 34 339.

grounds

Used about 18 665 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 301 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 487 · UN documents ≈ 12 877). Meaning: grounds in the Elamur Dictionary.

• 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

• Les décisions se basent dès lors sur des motifs individuels et non sur des motifs collectifs.

  Therefore, the decisions are based on individual grounds and not collective grounds.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 444189

• EXPOSÉ DES MOTIFS POUR 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 1395221

reasons

Used about 15 254 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 559 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 532 · UN documents ≈ 12 162).

• Il démissionna de son entreprise pour des motifs personnels.

  He left the company on account of personal reasons.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and CM · checked, community translation · #293704 #393768

• Pour tous ces motifs, il importe d'être conscient de l'urgence de ce dossier.

  For these reasons, the urgency of this matter must not go unstated.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1350862

• Liste de codes 4: motifs de refus d’historique

  Code list 4: History refusal reasons

  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 3948902

• " Par ces motifs,

  " For these reasons,

  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 2451398

• Les dispositions sur les motifs de la rétention, les recours et l'examen judiciaire sont essentielles.

  The provisions on reasons for detention and appeals and judicial review are crucial.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1095828

motives

Used about 1 521 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 86 · UN documents ≈ 1 431).

• Ces jours-ci, les motifs derrière le mariage ne sont pas nécessairement purs.

  These days, the motives for marriage are not necessarily pure.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and Zifre · checked, community translation · #18708 #727359

• «Excusez-moi d'envoyer ma fille et de ne pas me présenter moi-même, mais de tristes motifs de toilette ne me permettent pas, hélas! de sortir...»

  Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, alas! to go out.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15885

• Quels qu'en soient les motifs, exploitation sexuelle ou travail, elle est inadmissible par les autorités de l'Union.

  Whatever the motives, be it sexual exploitation or work, it is considered unacceptable by the Union's authorities.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1454701

• Plus on comprend les motifs et les calculs des principaux acteurs, mieux on peut concevoir une réponse préventive adaptée.

  The more we understand the motives and calculations of key actors, the better we will be able to tailor a preventive response.

  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 25071991

• Et puis, par-dessus tout, Marius éprouvait des mouvements de révolte inexprimables en songeant que c'était M. Gillenormand qui, pour des motifs stupides, l'avait arraché sans pitié au colonel, privant ainsi le père de l'enfant et l'enfant du père.

  And then, over and above all, Marius experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child of the father.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13651

explanatory

Used about 1 028 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 817 · legal and administrative ≈ 211). Meaning: explanatory in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai tenté de la décrire dans l'exposé des motifs.

  I have in the explanatory statement described the human rights situation in the country.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1697961

• Les amendements doivent indiquer à quelle partie du texte ils se réfèrent et être commentés par un exposé des motifs succinct.

  Proposals for amendments must specify the part of the text to which they refer and be supported by a brief explanatory statement.

  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 5352576

• Cela dit, quelles que soient les vertus de l'exposé des motifs, il ne dit pas tout.

  Now, good as the explanatory statement is, it does not say it all.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1703098

• Vous trouverez l'ensemble de nos propositions et l'exposé des motifs dans notre rapport.

  You can find all the proposals and the explanatory statement in our report.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 481795

• M. Howitt a écrit quelque chose dans l'exposé des motifs que je ne partage pas du tout.

  Mr Howitt wrote something in the explanatory statement that I disagree with.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 490183

taliban

Used about 211 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 211). Meaning: taliban in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Motifs de l'inscription sur la liste: cadre supérieur dans la province de Konar sous le régime des Taliban.

  Ground for listings: Senior official in Konar Province during the Taliban regime.

  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 2601963

More sentences

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

• Quels sont vos motifs d'irritation favoris ?

  What are your pet peeves?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1553326 #2061253

• Quels sont tes motifs d'irritation favoris ?

  What are your pet peeves?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1553326 #2061252

• Ni le lexique ni le catalogue des motifs de l'anglais n'est fermé.

  Neither the lexicon nor the pattern-book of English is closed.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2024377 #2024385

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