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# raison — French to English

How French *raison* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: raison (206 465), raisons (98 331). By style: everyday 1 425 · literary 71 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 41 795 · legal and administrative 38 547 · UN documents 222 906.

## reasons

Used about 144 700 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 772 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 21 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 069 · UN documents ≈ 104 487). Forms: reason, reasons.

- J'avais mes **raisons**.
  I had my **reasons**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4829393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4829393) [\#5555268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5555268))

- Vous savez la **raison**.
  You know the **reason**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5705)

- Mais sanctifiez dans vos cœurs Christ le Seigneur, étant toujours prêts à vous défendre, avec douceur et respect, devant quiconque vous demande **raison** de l’espérance qui est en vous,
  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a **reason** concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 3:15)

- Et ce pour des **raisons** éthiques.
  This was for ethical **reasons**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1839667)

- autres **raisons** familiales ou personnelles
  Other personal or family **reasons**
  ([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 1520368)

## because

Used about 25 668 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 3 048 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 015 · UN documents ≈ 18 576). Meaning: [because in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/because/).

- L'école est fermée en **raison** de la neige.
  The school is closed **because** of the snow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1894176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1894176) [\#1902642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1902642))

- En **raison** des contraintes de temps, je me concentrerai sur l'expérience irlandaise, mais elle est certainement intéressante dans ce contexte.
  **Because** of time constraints, I shall concentrate on the Irish experience only, but it is certainly relevant to this debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 873181)

- Les coûts non supportés en **raison** de la calamité naturelle sont déduits du montant considéré.
  That amount shall be reduced by any costs not incurred **because** of the natural disaster.
  ([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 3352722)

- En particulier, les auteurs n &apos; ont pas été exclus en **raison** de leurs opinions politiques.
  In particular, the authors were not excluded **because** of their political opinions.
  ([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 14684559)

- De nombreux vols ont été annulés en **raison** du typhon.
  Many flights were canceled **because** of the typhoon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1491080](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1491080) [\#1491334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1491334))

## why

Used about 10 038 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 803 · UN documents ≈ 6 966). Meaning: [why in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/why/).

- Est-ce là la **raison** de leurs morts ?
  Is that **why** they died?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3730319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3730319) [\#4139862](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4139862))

- Coictier se récria: «Pardieu, dom Claude, l'alchimie a sa **raison** sans doute, mais pourquoi blasphémer la médecine et l'astrologie?
  Coictier exclaimed, “Pardieu, Dom Claude, alchemy has its use, no doubt, but **why** blaspheme medicine and astrology?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2469)

- Akisch dit à ses serviteurs: Vous voyez bien que cet homme a perdu la **raison**; pourquoi me l’amenez-vous?
  Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. **Why** then have you brought him to me?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 21:14)

- C’est la **raison** pour laquelle je vote contre cette proposition.
  That is **why** I wish to vote against this motion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 664367)

- C'est la **raison** pour laquelle aucun organisme de formation étranger n'aurait jusque là été capable de satisfaire aux conditions fixées.
  This is **why** no foreign training agency would have been able to fulfil the conditions set down.
  ([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 787827)

## there

Used about 7 437 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 435 · UN documents ≈ 6 966). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Il y a de bonnes **raisons** d'affirmer que Paris était le lieu de fréquentes émeutes même avant la révolution de 1789.
  **There** are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and RoyalBee · checked, community translation · [\#35050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35050) [\#390496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390496))

- «Ainsi vêtus, chaussés, équipés, il n'y a aucune **raison** pour ne pas aller loin,» me dit mon oncle.
  "Clothed, shod, and equipped like this," said my uncle, "**there** is no telling how far we may go."
  ([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 1025)

- La bonne volonté, quand elle existe, est agréable en **raison** de ce qu’elle peut avoir à sa disposition, et non de ce qu’elle n’a pas.
  For if the readiness is **there**, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 8:12)

- Dans ce contexte, nous devons avant tout prendre en considération les **raisons** ethniques.
  In the light of such considerations, **there** is a general obligation to make an ethical assessment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151163)

- Je rappelle que ces interventions ne seront pas enregistrées en **raison** du caractère officieux de cette partie de notre séance.
  Let me recall that **there** will be no record of statements in the informal segment of our meeting.
  ([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 11627859)

## More sentences

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

- Je parie que tu as **raison**.
  I bet you're right.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2294115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2294115) [\#2297119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2297119))

- Vous avez peut-être **raison**.
  You may be right.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adjusting and saeb · checked, community translation · [\#17224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17224) [\#491477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/491477))

- Tu avais **raison** depuis le début.
  You were right all along.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3356450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3356450) [\#9749027](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9749027))

## 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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