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# caused — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: caused (61 745). By style: everyday 165 · literary 36 · biblical 87 · parliamentary 5 084 · legal and administrative 6 444 · UN documents 49 929.

## causé

Used about 12 339 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 65 · parliamentary ≈ 530 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 343 · UN documents ≈ 10 402).

- What **caused** the problem?
  Qu'est-ce qui a **causé** le problème ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4496350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496350) [\#6926644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6926644))

- Anglo-American law has **caused** us grievous problems in the United Kingdom and I do not want to see it here.
  La loi anglo-américaine a **causé** de graves problèmes à la Grande-Bretagne et je ne voudrais pas qu'elle soit appliquée ici.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734472)

- the willingness of the suspected offender to repair the damage **caused** by the illegal conduct;
  la volonté de l’auteur présumé de l’infraction de réparer le préjudice **causé** par son comportement illégal;
  ([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 4406116)

- (3) An obligation to make amends for harm **caused**;
  3) Obligation de réparer le dommage **causé**;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13392587)

- Tom has **caused** me a lot of trouble.
  Tom m'a **causé** beaucoup d'ennuis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3921830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3921830) [\#5489831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5489831))

## More sentences

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

- The first victim was one of my best friends and his loss **caused** me a great deal of grief; the second victim was merely a German.
  La première victime fut un de mes meilleurs amis et sa perte me causa un vif chagrin; la seconde était tout simplement un Allemand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1929082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1929082) [\#1929038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1929038))

- That disease is **caused** by bacteria.
  Cette maladie est causée par une bactérie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#680328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680328) [\#11788103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11788103))

- The fire that broke out last night was judged to be **caused** by arson.
  Le feu qui s'est déclenché la nuit dernière a été jugé être un incendie volontaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#244743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244743) [\#486119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486119))

## 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/).

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