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Meaning: [grounds in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/grounds/). - Déserter de l'armée était **motif** de peine de mort. Desertion from the army was **grounds** for the death penalty. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5250662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5250662) [\#8483255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8483255)) - Un malentendu subsiste concernant ces **motifs** de refus. A misunderstanding persists as to these **grounds** for refusal. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 524001) - **Motifs** justifiant l’ouverture de la procédure **Grounds** for initiating the procedure ([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 2283834) - L ' article 134 traite des **motifs** d ' expulsion. Article 134 provides for information on the **grounds** of removal. ([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 22014160) - L'appartenance à une association de jardins ouvriers n'est pas un **motif** de licenciement. Membership of an allotment association is not **grounds** for dismissal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11477796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11477796) [\#893240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/893240)) ## reason Used about 19 930 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 933 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 118 · UN documents ≈ 13 868). Forms: reason, reasons. Meaning: [reason in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/reason/). - Quel est le **motif** de son voyage ? What's the **reason** for his trip? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11075785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11075785) [\#598063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/598063)) - Puis il demanda à Hans le **motif** de sa réponse. Then he asked Hans for his **reason**. ([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 1333) - Les pharisiens l’abordèrent, et dirent, pour l’éprouver: Est-il permis à un homme de répudier sa femme pour un **motif** quelconque? Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any **reason**?” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 19:3) - Les **motifs** de cette réserve sont évidents. The **reason** for such a stipulation is very obvious. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1997370) - **Motif** de fermeture du compte **Reason** for closure of account ([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 849363) ## cause Used about 2 752 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 225 · UN documents ≈ 2 522). Meaning: [cause in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cause/). - J'ai été viré sans **motif**. I was fired without **cause**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3825834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3825834) [\#6736882](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6736882)) - Ne conteste pas sans **motif** avec quelqu’un, Lorsqu’il ne t’a point fait de mal. Don’t strive with a man without **cause**, if he has done you no harm. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 3:30) - Les résultats présentés dans le rapport constituent un **motif** de satisfaction. The results of the report are **cause** for satisfaction. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 951257) - Les omissions dans l ' acte de naissance n ' en sont pas nécessairement un **motif** (législation de Guanajuato et analogues); Omissions in a birth certificate do not necessarily **cause** ineligibility (Guanajuato and similar legislation); ([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 18670359) - Vous n'avez pas de **motif** de vous mettre en colère. You have no **cause** for anger. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#17498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17498) [\#477162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/477162)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il n'y a pas de **motif** simple qui puisse servir de modèle. There is no simple pattern that can serve as a template. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#8657795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657795) [\#8755942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8755942)) - Je commence à apercevoir un **motif**. I'm beginning to see a pattern. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1102305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1102305) [\#1102395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1102395)) - Il n'existe pas de **motif** simple qui puisse servir de modèle. There is no simple pattern that can serve as a template. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#8657795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657795) [\#9191006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9191006)) ## 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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