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# laquelle — French to English

How French *laquelle* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: laquelle (295 728), laquelles (1). By style: everyday 410 · literary 68 · biblical 90 · parliamentary 27 001 · legal and administrative 38 711 · UN documents 229 449.

## why

Used about 18 073 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 7 875 · legal and administrative ≈ 806 · UN documents ≈ 9 365). Meaning: [why in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/why/).

- C'est la raison pour **laquelle** il s'est mis en colère contre vous.
  This is **why** he got angry with you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#62395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/62395) [\#6559585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6559585))

- C'est la raison pour **laquelle** une partie s'est retirée.
  That is the reason **why** one party has withdrawn.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1073002)

- Il en va de même pour l’égrappage (opération connue sous le nom de «picado»), raison pour **laquelle** il est fréquent de retrouver des pédoncules dans les «Pasas de Málaga».
  The task of removing the grapes from the bunch (picado) is also done manually, which is **why** ‘Pasas de Málaga’ often have the peduncle attached.
  ([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 2956675)

- Le principe de l &apos; égalité souveraine est également la raison pour **laquelle** notre pays est devenu Membre de l &apos; ONU.
  The principle of sovereign equality is also the reason **why** we became a Member of the United Nations.
  ([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 20042926)

- Je n'ai aucune idée de la raison pour **laquelle** elle s'est tant énervée.
  I have no idea **why** she got so angry.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#36335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36335) [\#12989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12989))

## reason

Used about 8 169 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 111 · parliamentary ≈ 3 375 · UN documents ≈ 4 683). Meaning: [reason in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/reason/).

- C'est la raison pour **laquelle** je t'aime bien.
  It's the **reason** I love you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jedoo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13115459](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13115459) [\#4679467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4679467))

- C'est la raison pour **laquelle** je suis favorable à l'amendement 17.
  For this **reason** I support Amendment No 17.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 336470)

- Raisons pour lesquelles les postes sont vacants et date à **laquelle**
  **Reason** for vacancies and expected date of filling
  ([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 16213687)

- C'est la raison pour **laquelle** je suis en retard.
  It's the **reason** why I'm late.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#9440587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9440587) [\#11211176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11211176))

- C'est la raison pour **laquelle** le groupe PPE rejette clairement cette proposition d'amendement.
  For this **reason** the PPE-DE Group also rejects this amendment outright.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 300275)

## More sentences

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

- **Laquelle** est plus chère ?
  Which one is more expensive?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Talonmalon · checked, community translation · [\#1192246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1192246) [\#5707560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5707560))

- **Laquelle** est ta valise ?
  Which is your suitcase?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3260514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3260514) [\#3260513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3260513))

- Au dixième siècle, la ville de Shiraz possédait déjà une bibliothèque dans **laquelle** figurait, à ce que l'on dit, une copie de chaque livre connu à l'époque.
  In the tenth century, the city of Shiraz already held a library that reputedly featured a copy of every known book at the time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#967265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967265) [\#967266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967266))

## 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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