occasion — French to English

How French occasion 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: occasion (133 802), occasione (1), occasions (12 320). By style: everyday 298 · literary 24 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 16 458 · legal and administrative 3 299 · UN documents 125 996.

occasions

Used about 54 676 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 5 143 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 409 · UN documents ≈ 48 060). Forms: occasion, occasions. Meaning: occasions in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je l'ai rencontré à plusieurs occasions.

  I met him on several occasions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Romira and CK · checked, community translation · #284857 #181673

• Sa mort, prévue, était redoutée du peuple comme une perte et du gouvernement comme une occasion.

  His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and by the government as an occasion.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22987

• Heureux celui pour qui je ne serai pas une occasion de chute!

  Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:6

• Je suis venu ici à de occasions.

  I have been here on occasions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 655554

• A été contacté à de rares occasions

  Was contacted on a few occasions

  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 4450123

opportunity

Used about 49 672 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 8 915 · legal and administrative ≈ 344 · UN documents ≈ 40 267). Forms: opportunities, opportunity. Meaning: opportunity in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu as eu plein d'occasions.

  You had plenty of opportunity.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #3730222 #4142233

• Là, les occasions de se perdre abondaient.

  There opportunities of losing oneself abound.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27640

• Depuis ce moment, il cherchait une occasion favorable pour livrer Jésus.

  From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 26:16

• Des occasions ont de nouveau été ratées.

  Opportunities have been missed again.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1473764

• L’occasion devrait être mise à profit pour inclure ces modifications dans l’appendice 2.

  The opportunity should be taken to include these changes in Appendix 2.

  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 380228

several

Used about 2 975 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 343 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 2 598). Meaning: several in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le commissaire Fischler s'est entretenu avec les plus hautes autorités marocaines à différentes occasions.

  Commissioner Fischler held several meetings with the highest authorities in Morocco.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 116923

• La maladie survient dans plusieurs pays tiers en de rares occasions ou de façon sporadique et, depuis plusieurs années, elle apparaît en Israël par vagues épidémiques.

  ND occurs in several third countries on a rare or sporadic basis and since several years it appears in Israel in epidemic waves.

  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 3620340

• Il s ' est entretenu personnellement de la question avec des représentants de plusieurs États, notamment à l ' occasion de divers événements organisés par le Comité.

  He had personally discussed the issue with officials from several States, including at various events that had been organized by the Committee.

  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 23795021

• La première proposition en la matière a été retirée en 1973 - il y a 30 ans - et l’idée a été soulevée à plusieurs occasions depuis lors, la dernière fois en 1993.

  The first proposal on the subject was tabled back in 1973 – 30 years ago – and the idea has been raised several times since, most recently in 1993.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 503147

• 48. Les obstacles rencontrés par les pays Parties en développement dans la mise en œuvre des diverses conventions relatives à l ' environnement ont été exposés à diverses occasions.

  48. The challenges that each developing country Party faces while trying to implement the various environmental conventions has been echoed at several forums.

  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 10872244

More sentences

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

• Dès que je peux en avoir l'occasion, j'aiderai ta mère à peindre la clôture.

  As soon as I can get the chance, I'll help your mother paint the fence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #953140 #1405044

• Mieux vaut un vieux diamant d'occasion que pas de diamant du tout.

  It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by altebrilas and CK · checked, community translation · #667953 #2019823

• Dès que je peux en avoir l'occasion, j'aiderai votre mère à peindre la clôture.

  As soon as I can get the chance, I'll help your mother paint the fence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #953140 #1405047

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