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([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)) - Ayant, pour des **causes** diverses, échoué dans ses affaires, de tabellion il était tombé charretier et manoeuvre. Having, through various **causes**, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a carter and a laborer. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11210) - 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) - Loi sur les **causes** matrimoniales; The Matrimonial **Causes** Act; ([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 10481164) ## reasons Used about 2 359 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 386 · legal and administrative ≈ 74 · UN documents ≈ 1 899). - 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) - Ces absences temporaires peuvent avoir les **causes** suivantes: The possible **reasons** for such temporary absences are: ([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 1948697) - Les **causes** de la mortalité infantile et juvénile sont nombreuses et complexes. The **reasons** for infant and child mortality are numerous and complex. ([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 1223419) - Selon moi, c’est là que réside l’une des principales **causes** de la pauvreté dans certaines régions du monde. I think that this is one of the fundamental **reasons** for poverty in some parts of the world. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 653524) - Ces **causes** de défaillances ne s'appliquent que lorsque la conformité avec les exigences a été contrôlée. These **reasons** for failure apply only when compliance with requirements has been checked. ([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 4934331) ## root Used about 55 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 55). Meaning: [root in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/root/). - Cependant, nous abordons cette semaine un débat bien préparé sur le terrorisme, dont l'une des **causes** se trouve en Afghanistan sous le nom d' Oussama ben Laden. However, this week, we have a well-prepared debate on terrorism, the **root** of which can be found in Afghanistan, among other countries, under the guise of Osama bin Laden. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 234431) ## death Used about 1 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1). Meaning: [death in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/death/). - Le suicide est une des **causes** majeures de décès dans le pays à la plus longue espérance de vie. Suicide is a leading cause of **death** in the country with the longest life expectancy. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and kotobaboke · checked, community translation · [\#373256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/373256) [\#373258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/373258)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les **causes** de l'accident sont encore floues. It is still unclear what caused the accident. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sctld · checked, community translation · [\#752456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/752456) [\#1156132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1156132)) - Ils ont accepté d'enquêter sur les **causes** de l'incident. They agreed to investigate the cause of the incident. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10547939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10547939) [\#10547944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10547944)) - La police enquête sur les **causes** de l'accident. Police are investigating the cause of the accident. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by itk2 and mccarras · checked, community translation · [\#8991131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8991131) [\#4641004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4641004)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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