intention — English to French

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

What it means: intention in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: intention (42 651), intentions (6 674). By style: everyday 122 · literary 7 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 6 070 · legal and administrative 3 364 · UN documents 39 760.

intentions

Used about 38 204 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 118 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 5 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 663 · UN documents ≈ 30 234). Forms: intention, intentions.

• It wasn't my intention.

  Ce n'était pas mon intention.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Tcha · checked, community translation · #8453183 #3218

• Her husband had not been obliged to say anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly.

  Son mari n'avait eu rien à lui dire; elle subissait la pression vague, mais claire, de ses intentions tacites, et obéissait aveuglément.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31246

• That is the intention of this resolution.

  Telle est l'intention de cette résolution.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 917648

• ECHA Registry of Intentions.

  Registre d'intentions de l'ECHA.

  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 4004900

• If a person dies after making a will, however, his or her intentions prevail.

  Si le défunt a laissé un testament, ses intentions priment.

  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 24323283

bonnes

Used about 63 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 63).

• I fear that, despite the good intentions expressed by the rapporteurs, we are not quite there yet.

  Je crains que malgré les bonnes volontés exprimées par les rapporteurs, nous n’en soyons pas tout à fait là.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 799280

More sentences

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

• He has no intention to interfere with your business.

  Il ne compte pas se mêler de tes affaires.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and RoiOfTheSuisse · checked, community translation · #295640 #1590251

• You have to read between the lines to know the true intention of the author.

  Il te faut lire entre les lignes pour connaitre la véritable pensée de l'auteur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and GeeZ · checked, community translation · #244312 #1538596

• No matter what was said or done to him, there was no getting him to speak. He simply had no intention of spilling the beans.

  On ne pouvait pas lui tirer les vers du nez quoiqu'on fasse et quoiqu'on lui dise, il ne voulait tout simplement pas cracher le morceau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and LoverofEnglish · checked, community translation · #13959171 #12799925

Grammar

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