raison — French to English

How French raison is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: raison (206 465), raisons (98 331). By style: everyday 1 425 · literary 71 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 41 795 · legal and administrative 38 547 · UN documents 222 906.

reasons

Used about 144 700 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 772 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 21 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 069 · UN documents ≈ 104 487). Forms: reason, reasons.

• J'avais mes raisons.

  I had my reasons.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #4829393 #5555268

• Vous savez la raison.

  You know the reason.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5705

• Mais sanctifiez dans vos cœurs Christ le Seigneur, étant toujours prêts à vous défendre, avec douceur et respect, devant quiconque vous demande raison de l’espérance qui est en vous,

  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 3:15

• Et ce pour des raisons éthiques.

  This was for ethical reasons.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1839667

• autres raisons familiales ou personnelles

  Other personal or family 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 1520368

because

Used about 25 668 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 3 048 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 015 · UN documents ≈ 18 576). Meaning: because in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'école est fermée en raison de la neige.

  The school is closed because of the snow.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1894176 #1902642

• En raison des contraintes de temps, je me concentrerai sur l'expérience irlandaise, mais elle est certainement intéressante dans ce contexte.

  Because of time constraints, I shall concentrate on the Irish experience only, but it is certainly relevant to this debate.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 873181

• Les coûts non supportés en raison de la calamité naturelle sont déduits du montant considéré.

  That amount shall be reduced by any costs not incurred because of the natural disaster.

  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 3352722

• En particulier, les auteurs n ' ont pas été exclus en raison de leurs opinions politiques.

  In particular, the authors were not excluded because of their political opinions.

  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 14684559

• De nombreux vols ont été annulés en raison du typhon.

  Many flights were canceled because of the typhoon.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1491080 #1491334

why

Used about 10 038 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 803 · UN documents ≈ 6 966). Meaning: why in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Est-ce là la raison de leurs morts ?

  Is that why they died?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #3730319 #4139862

• Coictier se récria: «Pardieu, dom Claude, l'alchimie a sa raison sans doute, mais pourquoi blasphémer la médecine et l'astrologie?

  Coictier exclaimed, “Pardieu, Dom Claude, alchemy has its use, no doubt, but why blaspheme medicine and astrology?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2469

• Akisch dit à ses serviteurs: Vous voyez bien que cet homme a perdu la raison; pourquoi me l’amenez-vous?

  Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 21:14

• C’est la raison pour laquelle je vote contre cette proposition.

  That is why I wish to vote against this motion.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 664367

• C'est la raison pour laquelle aucun organisme de formation étranger n'aurait jusque là été capable de satisfaire aux conditions fixées.

  This is why no foreign training agency would have been able to fulfil the conditions set down.

  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 787827

there

Used about 7 437 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 435 · UN documents ≈ 6 966). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il y a de bonnes raisons d'affirmer que Paris était le lieu de fréquentes émeutes même avant la révolution de 1789.

  There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and RoyalBee · checked, community translation · #35050 #390496

• «Ainsi vêtus, chaussés, équipés, il n'y a aucune raison pour ne pas aller loin,» me dit mon oncle.

  "Clothed, shod, and equipped like this," said my uncle, "there is no telling how far we may go."

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1025

• La bonne volonté, quand elle existe, est agréable en raison de ce qu’elle peut avoir à sa disposition, et non de ce qu’elle n’a pas.

  For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 8:12

• Dans ce contexte, nous devons avant tout prendre en considération les raisons ethniques.

  In the light of such considerations, there is a general obligation to make an ethical assessment.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151163

• Je rappelle que ces interventions ne seront pas enregistrées en raison du caractère officieux de cette partie de notre séance.

  Let me recall that there will be no record of statements in the informal segment of our meeting.

  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 11627859

More sentences

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

• Je parie que tu as raison.

  I bet you're right.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2294115 #2297119

• Vous avez peut-être raison.

  You may be right.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adjusting and saeb · checked, community translation · #17224 #491477

• Tu avais raison depuis le début.

  You were right all along.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #3356450 #9749027

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