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# owing — English to French

How English *owing* 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: owing (53 977), owings (3). By style: everyday 11 · literary 1 · parliamentary 678 · legal and administrative 948 · UN documents 52 342.

## raison

Used about 15 971 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 198 · legal and administrative ≈ 375 · UN documents ≈ 15 395).

- **Owing** to bad weather, I didn't go.
  Je n'y suis pas allé en **raison** du mauvais temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#28548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28548) [\#1526869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526869))

- Individuals suffer needless pain and death **owing** to limited medical services and treatment.
  Des gens souffrent et meurent inutilement en **raison** du manque de services et de traitements médicaux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 974247)

- **Owing** to internal delays, the Portuguese authorities notified the aid only in April 2005.
  En **raison** de retards internes, les autorités portugaises n'ont notifié l'aide qu'en avril 2005.
  ([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 1150642)

- Reduced requirement **owing** to downsizing of Mission
  Baisse des dépenses engagées en **raison** de la réduction des effectifs de la Mission
  ([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 16270526)

- **Owing** to the storm, the ship could not leave port.
  En **raison** de la tempête, le navire n'a pas pu quitter le port.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#325269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325269) [\#11723806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11723806))

## More sentences

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

- Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps **owing** to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
  Les documents relatifs à cette période sont particulièrement rares, peut-être à cause d'une longue série de désastres naturelles qui ont frappé la capitale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#65024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/65024) [\#413383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413383))

- He was absent **owing** to illness.
  Il était absent pour cause de maladie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#303150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/303150) [\#14522](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14522))

- I don't like **owing** money to my friends.
  Je n'aime pas devoir de l'argent à mes amis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12178306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12178306) [\#12178313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12178313))

## 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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