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# reasonable — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reasonable (43 762). By style: everyday 82 · literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 3 426 · legal and administrative 9 540 · UN documents 30 710.

## raisonnable

Used about 29 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 75 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 784 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 149 · UN documents ≈ 18 554). Forms: raisonnable, raisonnables.

- That's not **reasonable**.
  Ce n'est pas **raisonnable**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2256898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2256898) [\#4842522](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4842522))

- Father Roland, always goaded on by his seafaring craze, would question their new friend about the departed captain; and she would talk of him, and his voyages, and his old-world tales, without hesitation, like a resigned and **reasonable** woman who loves life and respects death.
  Le père Roland, que sa manie de pose marine aiguillonnait sans cesse, interrogeait leur nouvelle amie sur le défunt capitaine, et elle parlait de lui, de ses voyages, de ses anciens récits, sans embarras, en femme **raisonnable** et résignée qui aime la vie et respecte la mort.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 52)

- This realistic solution is also **reasonable**.
  Cette voie réaliste est aussi **raisonnable**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 175360)

- Benchmarking of **reasonable** profit;
  détermination du bénéfice **raisonnable** de référence,
  ([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 2533485)

- 4. **Reasonable** accommodation in the workplace
  4. Aménagements **raisonnables** sur le lieu de travail
  ([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 26137484)

## More sentences

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

- From our point of view, his proposal is **reasonable**.
  De notre point de vue, sa proposition est acceptable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#23438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23438) [\#9533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9533))

- It's a **reasonable** price.
  C'est un prix abordable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Juba and Juba · checked, community translation · [\#3776322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3776322) [\#3776326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3776326))

- Do you have any **reasonable** explanation about it?
  Avez-vous une explication rationnelle à cela ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#1192354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1192354) [\#3214838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214838))

## 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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