Elamur Translateexpression — English to French
How English expression is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.
What it means: expression in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: expression (58 835), expressions (6 311). By style: everyday 73 · literary 34 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 4 302 · legal and administrative 3 035 · UN documents 57 696.
expression
Used about 41 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 2 510 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 138 · UN documents ≈ 37 262). Forms: expression, expressions.
It's just an expression.
C'est juste une expression.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2162938 #2164132Dom Claude’s visage had resumed its severe expression.
Le visage de dom Claude avait repris son expression sévère.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4141I apologise to the translators for using these peculiar expressions.
Je m'excuse auprès des traducteurs pour ces expressions particulières.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1921539as well as the following expressions:
ainsi que les expressions suivantes:
DGT-TM v2021 · 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 472435of freedom of expression
of freedom of expression
United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9291744
liberté
Used about 46 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 45).
Freedom of expression is the enemy of extremists.
La liberté d'opinion est l'ennemie des extrémistes.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and MessDjaaf · checked, community translation · #13039531 #7256884It must outlaw torture, guarantee press freedom and the free expression of opinion, and press on with the fight against corruption.
Il doit bannir la torture, garantir la liberté de la presse et la liberté d’opinion, et renforcer la lutte contre la corruption.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 667643
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
She looked at him with an inscrutable expression.
Elle le regarda d'un air impénétrable.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Neverin and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2757685 #12422447He had a queer expression on his face.
Il faisait une drôle de tête.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #295055 #15412He looked at me with a strange expression.
Il me regarda avec une drôle de mine.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #303952 #1089561
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