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# cause — French to English

How French *cause* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cause (120 465), causes (49 435). By style: everyday 602 · literary 49 · biblical 554 · parliamentary 13 069 · legal and administrative 21 317 · UN documents 134 309.

## causes

Used about 94 506 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 219 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 65 · parliamentary ≈ 6 535 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 326 · UN documents ≈ 78 347). Forms: cause, causes.

- Quelles sont les **causes** ?
  What are the **causes**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4496355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496355) [\#7352899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7352899))

- Vous êtes **cause** de tous mes malheurs!
  You are the **cause** of all my misfortunes!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17364)

- Défends ma **cause**, et rachète-moi; Rends-moi la vie selon ta promesse!
  Plead my **cause**, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:154)

- Il y a de multiples **causes**.
  There are numerous **causes**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1134669)

- **CAUSES** DE L'ACCIDENT
  4 **CAUSES** OF THE ACCIDENT
  ([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 1654009)

## due

Used about 7 101 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 332 · UN documents ≈ 5 596). Meaning: [due in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/due/).

- À **cause** de la tempête, il n'est pas arrivé.
  **Due** to the storm, he didn't arrive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2730109](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2730109) [\#8751285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8751285))

- La **cause** en est claire, vous le savez, cela est dû au nombre des points inscrits à l'ordre du jour de mercredi après-midi.
  The reason for this is clear, and as you know is **due** to the large number of items that we have to deal with on Wednesday afternoon.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1627884)

- Des pertes de raffinage peuvent se produire pendant la distillation à **cause** de l’évaporation.
  Losses may occur during the distillation processes **due** to evaporation.
  ([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 5034472)

- :: Remboursements pour **cause** de non-exécution ou de procédure judiciaire
  Refunds provided **due** to either non-compliance or litigation
  ([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 15303032)

- À **cause** de ma maladie, je n'ai pu te rendre visite.
  **Due** to my illness, I couldn't visit you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and jhomel · checked, community translation · [\#5069942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5069942) [\#134789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134789))

## because

Used about 6 973 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 219 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 152 · parliamentary ≈ 545 · legal and administrative ≈ 444 · UN documents ≈ 5 596). Meaning: [because in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/because/).

- Je souffre à **cause** de toi.
  I suffer **because** of you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11146042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11146042) [\#11146037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11146037))

- «C'est peut-être à **cause** de cela», dit-elle.
  “Perhaps it is **because** of this,” said she.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1610)

- Il y eut donc, à **cause** de lui, division parmi la foule.
  So a division arose in the multitude **because** of him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:43)

- Les frontières sont, en effet, relativement faciles à franchir à **cause** de l'espace Schengen".
  It is, indeed, fairly easy to cross frontiers **because** of the Schengen area' .
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 239373)

- Cela reviendrait à renoncer à la défense contre les pratiques commerciales déloyales juste à **cause** de l'éventualité d'une concurrence de la part d'autres pays tiers.
  It would also mean denying protection against unfair trade just **because** of the possibility of new competition from other third countries.
  ([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 2118323)

## one

Used about 6 436 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 817 · UN documents ≈ 5 596). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- On regarde à la superficie ces bouillonnements sans **cause**; on n'aperçoit pas l'hydre qui se traîne au fond.
  **One** gazes at the surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra which crawls on the bottom.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31030)

- Mais si quelqu’un souffre comme chrétien, qu’il n’en ait point honte, et que plutôt il glorifie Dieu à **cause** de ce nom.
  But if **one** of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 4:16)

- La pêche illicite est une des **causes** fondamentales à l'origine de l'épuisement de nombreux stocks de poissons.
  Illegal fishing is **one** of the most fundamental reasons for the collapse of many fish stocks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 910265)

- C &apos; est l &apos; une des grandes **causes** de défection dans cet établissement.
  That is **one** of the main reasons for the high dropout rate in this part of the university.
  ([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 8985591)

- Or, à qui vous pardonnez, je pardonne aussi; et ce que j’ai pardonné, si j’ai pardonné quelque chose, c’est à **cause** de vous, en présence de Christ,
  Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that **one** for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:10)

## More sentences

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

- Ce n'est pas à **cause** de cela que je suis ici.
  That's not why I'm here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3591083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3591083) [\#3592280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3592280))

- Je souffre encore à **cause** du décalage horaire.
  I'm still suffering from jet lag.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#255647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/255647) [\#947871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/947871))

- À **cause** de la tempête, ils sont arrivés en retard.
  Owing to the storm, they arrived late.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and autuno · checked, community translation · [\#325280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325280) [\#135567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135567))

## Grammar

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