intention — French to English

How French intention is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: intention (175 851), intentione (1), intentions (7 068). By style: everyday 571 · literary 12 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 10 018 · legal and administrative 8 154 · UN documents 164 143.

intentions

Used about 96 295 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 297 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 200 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 011 · UN documents ≈ 83 781). Forms: intend, intention, intentions.

• Quelles sont vos intentions ?

  What are your intentions?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and _undertoad · checked, community translation · #2270119 #3245399

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

  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.

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

• Voici, j’ai l’intention de bâtir une maison au nom de l’Éternel, mon Dieu, comme l’Éternel l’a déclaré à David, mon père, en disant: Ton fils que je mettrai à ta place sur ton trône, ce sera lui qui bâtira une maison à mon nom.

  Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 5:5

• Telle est l'intention de cette résolution.

  That is the intention of this resolution.

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

• Registre d'intentions de l'ECHA.

  ECHA Registry of Intentions.

  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

good

Used about 2 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: good in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Devant cette tentative presque chimérique, Fauchelevent ne recula point; ce pauvre paysan picard, sans autre échelle que son dévouement, sa bonne volonté, et un peu de cette vieille finesse campagnarde mise cette fois au service d'une intention généreuse, entreprit d'escalader les impossibilités du cloître et les rudes escarpements de la règle de saint Benoît.

  Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11202

• Mais si cette nation fait ce qui est mal à mes yeux, Et n’écoute pas ma voix, Je me repens du bien que j’avais eu l’intention de lui faire.

  if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 18:10

More sentences

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

• Tu vas précisément où j'avais l'intention d'aller.

  You're heading exactly where I wanted to go.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sam_m · checked, community translation · #1559508 #757870

• Nous avons l'intention de gravir cette montagne.

  We're going to climb that mountain.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and CK · checked, community translation · #6874188 #1118444

• Je n'ai jamais eu l'intention de vous mettre en quelconque danger.

  I never meant to put you in any danger.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #3226596 #4234426

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