position — English to French

How English position is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: position in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: position (180 733), positions (71 172). By style: everyday 166 · literary 13 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 29 431 · legal and administrative 37 937 · UN documents 184 354.

position

Used about 113 851 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 22 686 · legal and administrative ≈ 29 638 · UN documents ≈ 61 451). Forms: position, positions.

• Tom is in position.

  Tom est en position.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #2273236 #8730431

• His position was visibly becoming critical.

  Sa position devenait visiblement critique.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27766

• No extreme position will be adopted.

  Aucune position extrême ne sera adoptée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1096056

• TRANSPARENCY OF NET SHORT POSITIONS

  TRANSPARENCE DES POSITIONS COURTES NETTES

  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 2598154

• Position of the people of Tokelau

  Position de la population tokélaouane

  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 11606645

poste

Used about 52 093 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 56 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 920 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 186 · UN documents ≈ 49 929). Forms: poste, postes.

• What position do you hold?

  Quel poste occupes-tu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #17075 #474297

• Each man had taken up his position for the conflict.

  Chacun avait pris son poste de combat.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24490

• The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

  Les sacrificateurs se tenaient à leur poste, et les Lévites aussi avec les instruments faits en l’honneur de l’Éternel par le roi David pour le chant des louanges de l’Éternel, lorsque David les chargea de célébrer l’Éternel en disant: Car sa miséricorde dure à toujours! Les sacrificateurs sonnaient des trompettes vis-à-vis d’eux. Et tout Israël était là.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 7:6

• This means that now there are five times as many women in these positions than before.

  Cela signifie qu'il y a aujourd'hui à ces postes cinq fois plus de femmes qu'auparavant.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1495834

• (optional) provision of the following facility: advertisement of open job positions or online job application.

  fourniture du service suivant: publication de postes vacants ou possibilité de postuler en ligne (facultatif).

  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 2432082

parlement

Used about 1 226 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 226).

• During the next few months of the session, Parliament will have a number of reports on which to adopt positions in this area.

  Le Parlement aura, au cours des prochaines périodes de session, à se prononcer sur plusieurs rapports dans ce domaine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151915

• I do not believe it is fair to the voters for Parliament to devote itself to adopting a position on whether the gangway slope should be 12% or 12.5%.

  J'estime qu'il n'est pas honnête vis à vis des électeurs que le Parlement puisse décider si l'inclinaison du sol doit être de 12 ou de 12,5 pour cent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 157520

• The EPP Group needs to examine its conscience and to do so rapidly because the position it has created in Parliament today is an embarrassment for all of us.

  Le groupe PPE doit faire son examen de conscience, et sans tarder, car il a créé aujourd'hui au sein du Parlement une situation embarrassante pour chacun de nous.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2024566

• So from the very start, right up to this recommendation for second reading, all the political groups in Parliament have felt fully included in Mr Poggiolini's positions.

  Ainsi, dès le début et jusqu'à la recommandations pour deuxième lecture, toutes les familles politiques de ce Parlement se sont senties très représentées dans les opinions de M. Poggiolini.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1641459

More sentences

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

• Sami didn't want to put himself or his dog in a position of danger.

  Sami ne voulait pas se mettre en danger ni mettre son chien en danger.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Rovo · checked, community translation · #7190085 #11237842

• Can you jump over a chair from a standing position?

  Êtes-vous capables de sauter par dessus une chaise à partir de la station debout ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2213078 #2219192

• I'm not now in a position to help you.

  Je ne suis pas en mesure de vous aider.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6872993 #6877229

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