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# donc — French to English

How French *donc* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: donc (318 642). By style: everyday 601 · literary 299 · biblical 565 · parliamentary 59 243 · legal and administrative 48 012 · UN documents 209 922.

## therefore

Used about 193 318 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 283 · parliamentary ≈ 38 261 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 010 · UN documents ≈ 113 708). Meaning: [therefore in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/therefore/).

- J'écris, **donc** je suis.
  I write, **therefore** I am.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and mimosawang · checked, community translation · [\#13249888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13249888) [\#13257426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13257426))

- Toute conversation devenait **donc** à peu près impossible.
  There was **therefore** no room for conversation.
  ([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 1281)

- Je vous exhorte **donc** à faire acte de charité envers lui;
  **Therefore** I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:8)

- Nous pensons **donc** que c'est une bonne chose.
  We think that this is a good deal, **therefore**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1098928)

- La demande est **donc** rejetée.
  The claim is **therefore** rejected.
  ([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 3038986)

## thus

Used about 48 311 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 4 937 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 001 · UN documents ≈ 39 360). Meaning: [thus in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/thus/).

- Le coup de Noir occupait la dernière liberté qui restait à cinq pierres blanches, sur deux chaînes. Ces cinq pierres ont **donc** été capturées et enlevées.
  Black's move occupied the last liberty that was left to five white stones, in two strings. Those five stones were **thus** captured and removed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10361387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10361387) [\#10361407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10361407))

- La Liste de juin a **donc** voté contre le rapport.
  The June List has **thus** voted against the report.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 844351)

- Le risque global des dispositifs de protection pour prises est **donc** «grave».
  The overall risk of the socket protectors is **thus** ‘serious’.
  ([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 1969478)

- La composition du Bureau de la neuvième session était **donc** la suivante:
  The Bureau of the Conference at its ninth session was **thus** constituted as follows: President
  ([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 12318551)

- Il ne s'agit **donc** pas d'un lapsus linguae mais d'une campagne décidée.
  It is **thus** not a slip of the tongue but a deliberate campaign.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 185168)

## so

Used about 14 171 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 301 · literary ≈ 81 · biblical ≈ 106 · parliamentary ≈ 4 937 · UN documents ≈ 8 747). Meaning: [so in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/so/).

- Où étais-tu **donc** ?
  **So** where were you?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kerbear407 · checked, community translation · [\#1664988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1664988) [\#458899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/458899))

- —Il fallait **donc** le dire!
  "Why did not you say **so** then?
  ([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 1109)

- 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)

- Ici résident **donc** les 100 % que nous ne voulons pas modifier.
  **So** the 100 %, which we cannot do anything to change, is included there.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1754326)

- **Donc**, c &apos; est tout à fait normal.
  **So** this is completely normal.
  ([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 12530240)

## More sentences

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

- Il a encore neigé en Allemagne. Malheureusement, notre lièvre a eu un accident. La livraison aura **donc** un peu de retard. Néanmoins, Joyeuses Pâques!
  It snowed again in Germany. Unfortunately, our driver has had an accident. The delivery will be a little late. Nevertheless, Happy Easter!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6850357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6850357) [\#6850162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6850162))

- N'agis **donc** pas comme si tu étais né l'année du chameau.
  Don't act as if you were born in the year of Camel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and yujin · checked, community translation · [\#1089156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1089156) [\#1089179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1089179))

- N'éveille **donc** pas ainsi mes espoirs.
  Don't raise my hopes like that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#41528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41528) [\#1989197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1989197))

## 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/).

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