façon — French to English

How French façon is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 7 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: façon (236 241), façons (5 665). By style: everyday 561 · literary 64 · parliamentary 21 936 · legal and administrative 17 953 · UN documents 201 392.

ways

Used about 101 446 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 304 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 11 425 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 797 · UN documents ≈ 83 913). Forms: way, ways.

• Il n'y a que deux façons.

  There are only two ways.

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• En vérité! c'est un roi étroit dans ses façons avec les gens de lettres, et qui fait des cruautés fort barbares.

  In truth! ’Tis a paltry king in his ways with men of letters, and one who commits very barbarous cruelties.

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• Il y a plusieurs façons d'y arriver.

  This can take place in various ways.

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• Le prélèvement peut en général être effectué de deux façons:

  Sampling can generally be done in two ways:

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• 51. Le système pourrait être amélioré de deux façons.

  51. The programme could be improved in two ways.

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so

Used about 13 960 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 229 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 122 · UN documents ≈ 12 587). Meaning: so in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Pourquoi Tom agit-il de façon si infantile ?

  Why is Tom acting so childish?

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• --Et la pierre est arrangée de façon à pivoter.

  “And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot.”

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• Enfin, je voudrais remercier M. Turco pour avoir traité de façon aussi intéressante l'initiative suédoise et belge.

  Finally, I want to thank Mr Turco for having dealt with the Swedish and Belgian initiative so well.

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• soient construits de façon à éviter la contamination de la viande et des produits, notamment:

  are constructed so as to avoid contamination of meat and products, in particular by:

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• 6-1.2 Les installations de gouverne doivent être constituées de telle façon que la position du gouvernail ne puisse changer de manière inopinée.

  6-1.2 Steering systems shall be so constituted that the rudder position cannot change unintentionally.

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manner

Used about 11 531 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 457 · legal and administrative ≈ 561 · UN documents ≈ 10 489). Meaning: manner in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je n'aime pas sa façon grossière.

  I don't like his rude manner.

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• De quelle façon Enjolras le subjuguait-il?

  In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him?

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• Ce règlement nous offre les moyens de combattre le financement du terrorisme d’une façon cohérente dans l’ensemble de l’Union européenne.

  This regulation provides us with means to combat terrorist financing in a consistent manner throughout the European Union.

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• LES PARAMÈTRES SUR LA BASE DESQUELS LA COMPENSATION EST CALCULÉE ONT ÉTÉ PRÉALABLEMENT ÉTABLIS DE FAÇON OBJECTIVE ET TRANSPARENTE

  THE PARAMETERS ON WHICH THE COMPENSATION IS CALCULATED HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED BEFOREHAND IN AN OBJECTIVE AND TRANSPARENT MANNER

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• Il doit être documenté, de façon systématique et ordonnée, sous la forme de décisions, de procédures et d ' instructions écrites.

  It shall be documented in a systematic and orderly manner in the form of written policies, procedures and instructions.

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there

Used about 9 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 914 · legal and administrative ≈ 187 · UN documents ≈ 8 391). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Qui veut y habiter, de toutes façons ?

  Who wants to live there anyway?

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• L'archidiacre répondit sans s'émouvoir: «Il y a certaines choses dont je pense d'une certaine façon.»

  The archdeacon replied without perturbation: “There are certain things of which I think in a certain fashion.”

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• L'UE doit, de toutes les façons possibles, aider les autres États à y parvenir.

  The others should be given all possible help by the EU to get there.

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• Comme cette société produit de l'alumine métallurgique, la concurrence n'est de toute façon pas faussée entre usines européennes produisant de l'alumine chimique.

  As it produces smelter grade alumina, there is no a distortion of competition as regards plants in Europe producing chemical grade alumina.

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• Il y a aussi d ' autres façons de récompenser le mérite.

  There are also other mechanisms for staff recognition.

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two

Used about 8 603 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 187 · UN documents ≈ 8 391). Meaning: two in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Que faisiez-vous tous deux là, de toutes façons ?

  What were you two doing there anyway?

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• Les deux vieillards font tout, chacun à leur façon, pour que Cosette soit heureuse

  CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY

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• La Commission examinera les arguments de la Finlande quant à la légalité des dispositions de façon distincte pour les deux régimes d’aide.

  The Commission will assess the Finnish argument about the lawfulness of the aid separately for the two alleged schemes.

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• Le traçage des armes au Mexique s ' effectue de deux façons :

  In Mexico, arms are traced by two methods:

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• Qu'y faisiez-vous tous les deux, de toutes façons ?

  What were you two doing there anyway?

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different

Used about 4 572 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 374 · UN documents ≈ 4 196). Meaning: different in the Elamur Dictionary.

• À chacun de ces monuments caractéristiques se rattache par une similitude de goût, de façon et d'attitude, une certaine quantité de maisons éparses dans divers quartiers et que l'oeil du connaisseur distingue et date aisément.

  To each of these characteristic monuments there is attached by a similarity of taste, fashion, and attitude, a certain number of houses scattered about in different quarters and which the eyes of the connoisseur easily distinguishes and furnishes with a date.

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• Outre la grande diversité des outils choisis pour calculer les coûts, il y a aussi différentes façons d'utiliser ces outils.

  In addition to a significant variety in the chosen costing tools, there are also different practices in implementing those tools.

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• Des groupes présentant des besoins particuliers sont touchés de différentes façons par l ' exclusion sociale et la misère.

  Groups with special needs are also affected by social exclusion and by poverty in different manners.

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• À la rigueur, et si on le veut absolument, toutes ces façons diverses de dire la droite et la gauche, le matelot bâbord et tribord, le machiniste, côté cour et côté jardin, le bedeau, côté de l'épître et côté de l'évangile, sont de l'argot.

  Strictly speaking, if one absolutely insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right and the left, the sailor’s port and starboard, the scene-shifter’s court-side, and garden-side, the beadle’s Gospel-side and Epistle-side, are slang.

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• Les capacités fermées sont plus anciennes que les nouvelles capacités, elles possèdent des caractéristiques techniques différentes et elles ne sont pas positionnées de la même façon sur le marché.

  The closed capacity is older than the newly installed capacity, has different technical characteristics and is positioned in the market in a different way.

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various

Used about 2 556 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 457 · UN documents ≈ 2 098). Meaning: various in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Jean Valjean décrivit plusieurs labyrinthes variés dans le quartier Mouffetard, déjà endormi comme s'il avait encore la discipline du moyen âge et le joug du couvre-feu; il combina de diverses façons, dans des stratégies savantes, la rue Censier et la rue Copeau, la rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor et la rue du Puits-l'Ermite.

  Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l’Ermite.

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• À cause de l'approche du rapporteur, des entreprises issues du même secteur peuvent être traitées de façon inégale dans les différents États.

  The result of the rapporteur' s approach is that companies from the same sector in the various Member States may be treated unequally.

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• Depuis, il observe et met en œuvre de façon scrupuleuse les dispositions de cet instrument.

  Kenya has since then closely observed and implemented the various provisions of the treaty.

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• La politique actuelle en matière d'inspection environnementale figure dans la recommandation, qui est interprétée de multiples façons dans les différents États membres.

  Current environmental inspection policy is contained in the recommendation, which is interpreted quite differently in various Member States.

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More sentences

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

• J'ai regardé une vidéo pédagogique satirique sur la façon de devenir chef de secte.

  I watched a satirical instructional video on becoming a cult leader.

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• J'ai étudié de façon irrégulière au cours de l'année.

  I've been studying off and on all year.

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• Il agit de façon belliqueuse.

  He's acting belligerently.

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