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([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)) - Marius had two **reasons** for this prompt change of residence. Marius avait eu deux **raisons** pour ce déménagement si prompt. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18730) - 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) ## motifs Used about 11 865 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 916 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 824 · UN documents ≈ 7 123). - He left the company on account of personal **reasons**. Il démissionna de son entreprise pour des **motifs** personnels. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#293704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/293704) [\#393768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/393768)) - In fact, it is for all those **reasons** that I fail to understand the anti-globalists. C' est d' ailleurs déjà pour ces **motifs** que je ne comprends pas les anti-globalisations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 213416) - 39 = Manual Closure Request **Reasons** 39 = **motifs** de la demande de clôture manuelle ([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 5044645) - Subject matter: Non-appointment of the author for discriminatory **reasons** Non-nomination de l ' auteur à des postes pour des **motifs** discriminatoires ([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 18122303) - The media should not only report the persecution as it happens but they should explain to the general public the **reasons** why it is happening. Les médias devraient non seulement rendre compte de ces persécutions, mais également en expliquer les **motifs** au public. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1332122) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I was concerned for obvious **reasons**. J'étais évidemment inquiet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6882684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6882684) [\#9771830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9771830)) - She resigned for health **reasons**. Elle démissionna pour raison de santé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#10853974](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10853974) [\#134637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134637)) - I play a sport for health **reasons**. Je pratique un sport pour la santé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13806465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13806465) [\#1719116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1719116)) ## 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 Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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