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# reason — English to French

How English *reason* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reason (68 744), reasons (97 837). By style: everyday 606 · literary 57 · biblical 73 · parliamentary 27 175 · legal and administrative 26 083 · UN documents 112 587.

## raisons

Used about 101 460 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 568 · literary ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 19 249 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 585 · UN documents ≈ 68 021). Forms: raison, raisons.

- I had my **reasons**.
  J'avais mes **raisons**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4829393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4829393) [\#5555268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5555268))

- You know the **reason**.
  Vous savez la **raison**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5705)

- It is for ethical **reasons**.
  C'est pour des **raisons** éthiques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 918500)

- **Reasons** for specific measures covered by these Guidelines
  **Raisons** des mesures spécifiques couvertes par les présentes lignes directrices
  ([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 5633775)

- There are two **reasons** for this.
  Il y a à cela deux **raisons**.
  ([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 12085540)

## cette

Used about 4 648 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 849 · legal and administrative ≈ 272 · UN documents ≈ 3 518).

- I answered not a word, and for a very good **reason**.
  A **cette** question je ne répondis rien, et pour cause.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 204)

- and the plenty will not be known in the land by **reason** of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
  **Cette** famine qui suivra sera si forte qu’on ne s’apercevra plus de l’abondance dans le pays.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 41:31)

- Those clients had **reasons** to be thankful for the existence of this rather unknown organisation.
  Ces clients pouvaient s’estimer heureux que **cette** organisation relativement peu connue existe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 849605)

- The **reason** for the annulment was that the Commission had failed to indicate clearly in the statement of objections:
  **Cette** décision d’annuler les amendes était motivée par le fait que la Commission avait omis de préciser clairement, dans la communication des griefs:
  ([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 567752)

- In other words, it is their job to make war and it is for this precise **reason** that their services are sought.
  Autrement dit, ils font profession de faire la guerre et leurs services sont précisément recherchés à **cette** fin.
  ([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 1161266)

## More sentences

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

- They accused him for no **reason**.
  Ils l'ont incriminé pour rien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13363010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13363010) [\#12041984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12041984))

- You can't **reason** with crazy people.
  On ne raisonne pas avec les dingues.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11201599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11201599) [\#1652415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1652415))

- Probably the **reason** Tom can't go is because he doesn't have any money.
  Tom ne peut probablement pas y aller parce qu'il n'a pas d'argent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6227716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6227716) [\#7960298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7960298))

## 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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