idea — English to French

How English idea is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: idea in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: idea (30 671), ideas (26 829). By style: everyday 1 553 · literary 104 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 14 820 · legal and administrative 673 · UN documents 40 349.

idée

Used about 41 716 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 488 · literary ≈ 83 · parliamentary ≈ 11 424 · legal and administrative ≈ 561 · UN documents ≈ 28 160). Forms: idée, idées.

• It was his idea.

  C'était son idée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #2298154 #8851618

• He rallied his ideas.

  Il rallia ses idées.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9099

• I accept that that is a fascinating idea.

  C'est une idée fascinante, il faut le reconnaître.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1779384

• promoting the European idea.

  promouvoir l’idée européenne.

  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 5052085

• 3.2.5 R & D Idea factory

  Usine à idées en faveur de la R-D

  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 19240376

More sentences

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

• Being totally open and honest isn't always the best idea. These kinds of negotiations require some guile.

  Il n'est pas toujours judicieux d'être tout à fait franc et honnête. Ce genre de négociations requiert de la duplicité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Auride and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10649782 #10659966

• Is this your idea of a massage?

  C'est ça, un massage, selon toi ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #6383471 #6383558

• I have no idea why he did that.

  Je ne comprends pas pourquoi il a fait ça.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Trailsend and gasche · checked, community translation · #904808 #429483

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