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# explique — French to English

How French *explique* 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: explique (35 045), expliques (10). By style: everyday 89 · literary 8 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 780 · legal and administrative 2 081 · UN documents 31 093.

## explain

Used about 10 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 954 · UN documents ≈ 8 884). Forms: explain, explained, explains. Meaning: [explain in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/explain/).

- **Explique**-moi tout ça.
  **Explain** all this to me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#9741309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9741309) [\#11795471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11795471))

- La panique des héros s'**explique**.
  The panic of heroes can be **explained**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7380)

- Pierre, prenant la parole, lui dit: **Explique**-nous cette parabole.
  Peter answered him, “**Explain** the parable to us.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 15:15)

- Cette procédure **explique** le temps nécessaire pour procéder à un enregistrement.
  This procedure **explains** the time required for registration to take place.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1569956)

- il **explique** la variation historique de prix dans le portefeuille,
  it **explains** the historical price variation in the portfolio;
  ([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 2058218)

## due

Used about 4 092 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 111 · legal and administrative ≈ 173 · UN documents ≈ 3 807). Meaning: [due in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/due/).

- Ce phénomène s'**explique** principalement par les mauvaises conditions de travail dans le secteur.
  This is mainly **due** to the poor working conditions that prevail in this area.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 914316)

- Cette réduction s’**explique** en particulier par la scission et les cessions auxquelles il sera procédé.
  That reduced size is in particular **due** to the split and the divestitures that will be carried out.
  ([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 2261962)

- 103. Dans une certaine mesure, la situation s &apos; **explique** par la façon dont les juges motivent traditionnellement leurs décisions.
  103. This is **due** to some extent to long-standing traditional approaches for explaining court decisions.
  ([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 25993241)

- Ceci s'**explique** par le fait que nous tentions de nous mettre d'accord sur un amendement oral relatif au paragraphe 8.
  This was **due** to the fact that we were trying to agree the terms of an oral amendment relating to paragraph 8.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1129618)

- Ceci s’**explique**, entre autres, par les obstacles découlant du fait que Statsbygg est soumise à un contrôle public et politique.
  That is i.a. **due** to obstacles arising from the fact that Statsbygg is subject to public and political control.
  ([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 5624485)

## why

Used about 311 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 223 · legal and administrative ≈ 87). Meaning: [why in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/why/).

- «Quatrièmement: on ne s'**explique** pas pourquoi le règlement spécial de la prison des Madelonnettes interdit au prisonnier d'avoir une chaise, même en la payant.
  “Fourthly: it is inexplicable **why** the special regulation of the prison of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by paying for it.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28715)

- Ceci **explique** la manière dont nous avons posé nos questions.
  This is **why** we are asking questions the way we have.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1005138)

- elle **explique** pourquoi le critère d'évaluation n'est pas rempli;
  state **why** the assessment criterion is not met;
  ([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 2207708)

- —Oui! tout s'**explique**, tout s'enchaîne, tout est clair, et je comprends pourquoi Saknussemm, mis à l'index et forcé de cacher les découvertes de son génie, a dû enfouir dans un incompréhensible cryptogramme le secret...
  "Yes, yes; now it is all clear, now it is all unravelled; and I see **why** Saknussemm, put into the Index Expurgatorius, and compelled to hide the discoveries made by his genius, was obliged to bury in an incomprehensible cryptogram the secret--"
  ([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 914)

- C'est la raison qui **explique** l'absence de résolution du Conseil européen concernant ce moratoire jusqu'à présent.
  That is the reason **why** there has been no European Council resolution to date on this moratorium.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 966533)

## More sentences

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

- Ça s'**explique** comment ?
  How can this be?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4384112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4384112) [\#14041880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14041880))

- Comment cela s'**explique**-t-il ?
  How can that be?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2903017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2903017) [\#14041886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14041886))

- Comment ça s'**explique** ?
  How can this be?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4384112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4384112) [\#14041883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14041883))

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