idée — French to English

How French idée is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: idée (51 823), idées (30 953). By style: everyday 1 655 · literary 97 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 16 021 · legal and administrative 917 · UN documents 64 085.

idea

Used about 46 929 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 431 · literary ≈ 80 · parliamentary ≈ 10 180 · legal and administrative ≈ 525 · UN documents ≈ 34 713). Forms: idea, ideas. Meaning: idea in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'était mon idée.

  This was my idea.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and VilhelmsPort · checked, community translation · #3517813 #3517973

• Il rallia ses idées.

  He rallied his ideas.

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

• L'idée même est absurde.

  The very idea is absurd.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 73354

• promouvoir l’idée européenne.

  promoting the European idea.

  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 4767928

• Il convient de trouver les moyens de traduire cette idée dans les faits.

  Ways and means of translating this idea into reality need to be explored.

  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 782933

More sentences

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

• C'était juste une idée.

  It was just a thought.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2953069 #6455990

• Je n'en ai pas la moindre idée.

  I don't have a clue.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #396751 #9487

• Elle n'avait aucune idée quoi faire.

  She was at a loss as to what to do.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #312808 #1730527

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