function — English to French

How English function is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: function in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: function (60 938), functions (110 541). By style: everyday 73 · literary 4 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 3 727 · legal and administrative 20 620 · UN documents 147 052.

fonction

Used about 116 394 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 213 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 613 · UN documents ≈ 96 503). Forms: fonction, fonctionner, fonctions.

• The function creates the organ.

  La fonction crée l'organe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #5062915 #5062914

• To make reparation is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed.

  Faire la réparation est une fonction où toute l'âme s'absorbe.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10405

• For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

  Car, comme nous avons plusieurs membres dans un seul corps, et que tous les membres n’ont pas la même fonction,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 12:4

• Parliament's legislative function must also be strengthened.

  La fonction législative du Parlement doit également être renforcée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 400299

• CCS additional functions (M)

  Fonctions CCS additionnelles (O)

  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 4610955

fonctionnement

Used about 3 494 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 427 · UN documents ≈ 3 064).

• Dates improve brain function.

  Les dattes améliorent le fonctionnement du cerveau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9360366 #11964269

• That is not to say that it is one service, but that it functions as one.

  Je ne dis pas «un seul service» mais un «fonctionnement uniforme».

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825823

• The Centre therefore uses different modes of intervention and operation to carry out its functions.

  C ' est ainsi qu ' il a développé son action en déployant différentes modalités d ' intervention et de fonctionnement.

  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 17177952

• This protein is crucial for the organism to function properly.

  Cette protéine est cruciale au bon fonctionnement de l'organisme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1123547 #8553127

• We are now waiting for an explanation as to how this electronic system functions.

  Nous attendons qu'on nous explique le mode de fonctionnement de ce système électronique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 34628

More sentences

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

• Some English adverbs function as adjectives.

  Certains adverbes anglais fonctionnent comme des adjectifs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rafi · checked, community translation · #26310 #332077

• The motor does not function properly.

  Le moteur ne fonctionne pas correctement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #31134 #2322086

• Ziri talked about how washing machines function.

  Ziri a parlé sur comment les machines à laver fonctionnent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11148057 #11964273

Grammar

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