raisons — French to English

How French raisons 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: raisons (98 331). By style: everyday 109 · literary 14 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 11 749 · legal and administrative 14 762 · UN documents 71 696.

reasons

Used about 73 993 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 98 · literary ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 9 301 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 302 · UN documents ≈ 52 278). 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

• --Ah! mille raisons!

  “Oh! a thousand reasons!”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6683

• 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

• * Nouveau tirage pour raisons techniques.

  * Reissued for technical 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 14925689

grounds

Used about 6 820 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 490 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 845 · UN documents ≈ 4 481). Meaning: grounds in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Si tu as vraiment des raisons pour avoir agi de la sorte, dis-les-moi.

  If you really have grounds for acting the way you did, then please tell me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and qdii · checked, community translation · #722624 #722639

• Nous devons supprimer le cannibalisme, tant pour des raisons éthiques que pour des raisons scientifiques.

  Both on ethical and scientific grounds, we must abandon cannibalism.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 201421

• Absence du travail pour raisons de force majeure

  Time off from work on grounds of force majeure

  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 4871665

• Quelques-uns ont dû être réinstallés au Danemark, aux États-Unis d ' Amérique et au Canada pour des raisons de sécurité.

  A few have had to be resettled, on security grounds, in Denmark, the United States of America and Canada.

  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 6904907

• 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

why

Used about 3 234 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 245 · UN documents ≈ 2 987). Meaning: why in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Sur Tatoeba, tu devras toujours écouter les utilisateurs expérimentés. Ils te diront ce qui ne se fait pas, et pour quelles raisons. Alors, fais-le.

  In Tatoeba, you gotta always listen to veteran members. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and saeb · checked, community translation · #451582 #809709

• Ce phénomène est à l'origine même des raisons pour lesquelles la crise financière a frappé si fort l'UE, en particulier certains de nos États membres.

  This has been at the root and origin of why the financial crisis hit the EU so hard, especially some of our Member States.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1390909

• Sous-thème 3: prise en compte simultanée des raisons et de la manière: conclusions et recommandations pour les activités de suivi

  Sub-topic 3: Bringing the why and how together: conclusions and recommendations for follow up work

  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 24543985

• 33. M. Prosper (Rapporteur pour le Cambodge) voudrait savoir pour quelles raisons les autorités ont refusé de délivrer des papiers d ' identité à 19 Khmers Kroms depuis janvier 2010.

  33. Mr. Prosper, Country Rapporteur, wished to know why the authorities had refused to issue identity papers to 19 Khmer Krom since January 2010.

  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 22447217

there

Used about 245 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 245). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• 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

More sentences

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

• Pour quelles raisons portez-vous plainte contre Dan?

  What are you suing Dan for?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · #3991532 #3991615

• Je n'arrive pas à comprendre les raisons qui poussent certaines personnes à parasiter les forums.

  I just don't understand what goes through the minds of people who troll forums.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and fcbond · checked, community translation · #328682 #967668

• Je prendrai mes raisons de haut, Et je prouverai la justice de mon créateur.

  I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 36:3

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