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# cause — English to French

How English *cause* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [cause in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cause/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cause (60 322), causes (52 426). By style: everyday 251 · literary 39 · biblical 303 · parliamentary 10 269 · legal and administrative 7 621 · UN documents 94 265.

## cause

Used about 67 655 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 105 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 63 · parliamentary ≈ 5 621 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 937 · UN documents ≈ 58 916). Forms: cause, causes.

- What **causes** that?
  Qu'est-ce qui **cause** ça ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2254549](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2254549) [\#6322036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6322036))

- You are the **cause** of all my misfortunes!
  Vous êtes **cause** de tous mes malheurs!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17364)

- Moses brought their **cause** before the LORD.
  Moïse porta la **cause** devant l’Éternel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 27:5)

- It is therefore a good **cause**.
  C'est donc aujourd'hui une juste **cause**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 89554)

- 4 **CAUSES** OF THE ACCIDENT
  **CAUSES** DE L'ACCIDENT
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1654009)

## More sentences

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

- It didn't **cause** nightmares.
  Il ne faisait pas de cauchemars.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gulliver and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#2333017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2333017) [\#2074048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2074048))

- I'm happy, '**cause** I'm learning some Dutch.
  Je suis content, car je suis en train d'apprendre un peu de néerlandais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dorenda and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#388256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/388256) [\#388251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/388251))

- Poverty is still the major **cause** of crime.
  La pauvreté est toujours la principale raison du crime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and jonr · checked, community translation · [\#318541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/318541) [\#1588627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1588627))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

## About these examples

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