distinction — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: distinction (35 266), distinctions (2 974). By style: everyday 12 · literary 1 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 2 023 · legal and administrative 2 681 · UN documents 33 515.

distinction

Used about 20 209 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 349 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 396 · UN documents ≈ 17 456). Forms: distinction, distinctions. Meaning: distinction in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cette distinction a été fort méritée.

  That distinction was well-deserved.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and _undertoad · checked, community translation · #2267821 #4902693

• Il pourra nous arriver, dans cette mise en scène d'un événement redoutable, de dire parfois l'émeute, mais seulement pour qualifier les faits de surface, et en maintenant toujours la distinction entre la forme émeute et le fond insurrection.

  It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and insurrection, the foundation.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22958

• justice de Dieu par la foi en Jésus-Christ pour tous ceux qui croient. Il n’y a point de distinction.

  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:22

• Dans l'affirmative, quelles distinctions faudrait-il faire?

  If so, what distinctions should be made?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312920

• Distinction temps plein/temps partiel

  Full-time/part-time distinction

  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 656769

between

Used about 3 270 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 307 · UN documents ≈ 2 793). Meaning: between in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il y a une subtile distinction entre une façon de s'exprimer qui est trop concise et pertinente et une façon de s'exprimer qui est trop abrupte.

  There is a fine line between speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #1945 #417418

• Par exemple, pourrait-il y avoir des problèmes en ce qui concerne la distinction entre diverses graisses ?

  For example, might there be control problems in distinguishing between different fats.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 150604

• Distinction entre l'inhibition de respiration hétérotrophe et la nitrification

  Differentiation between inhibition of heterotrophic respiration and nitrification

  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 3935246

• Le terrorisme ne fait pas la distinction entre les combattants et les non-combattants.

  It does not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants.

  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 4612833

• Troisièmement, la proposition ne fait pas la distinction entre les actions sociales menées de façon légale et celles qui ne le sont pas.

  Thirdly, the proposal does not differentiate between legal and illegal actions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1911436

distinguish

Used about 1 882 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 148 · legal and administrative ≈ 335 · UN documents ≈ 1 396). Meaning: distinguish in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les animaux ne peuvent pas faire la distinction entre le vrai et le faux.

  Animals can't distinguish right from wrong.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and CK · checked, community translation · #6873381 #920952

• Dans le cadre du patrimoine culturel, il est opportun de faire la distinction entre patrimoine mobilier et immobilier.

  In the field of cultural heritage it is right to distinguish between movable and fixed heritage.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1909892

• À cet effet, il convient d'opérer une distinction entre les prix de référence et les prix d'intervention.

  For that purpose it is appropriate to distinguish between reference prices and intervention prices.

  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 1301688

• La distinction s ' imposait alors entre tribunaux et autres juridictions civiles.

  One should distinguish between criminal courts and other forms of civil proceedings.

  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 10761308

• On fait la distinction entre les conjonctions de subordination et les conjonctions de coordination.

  We distinguish between subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · #10459789 #10498570

More sentences

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

• La médaille d'or olympique est certainement la distinction sportive la plus désirée.

  An Olympic gold medal is probably the most coveted sporting prize.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by poubellekfc and Dani6187 · checked, community translation · #4032494 #4033234

• Nous acceptons tout le monde sans distinction de nationalité.

  We accept anybody, irrespective of nationality.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and Lumi_alt · checked, community translation · #241432 #180248

• En mai 1945, les colons français ont tiré sur les Algériens sans distinction.

  In May 1945, the French settlers shot Algerians indiscriminately.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11862528 #12104671

Grammar

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