occupation — French to English

How French occupation 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: occupation (50 778), occupations (916). By style: everyday 32 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 513 · legal and administrative 693 · UN documents 49 452.

occupation

Used about 36 132 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 788 · legal and administrative ≈ 295 · UN documents ≈ 35 029). Forms: occupation, occupations. Meaning: occupation in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quelle est ton occupation ?

  What's your occupation?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and CK · checked, community translation · #410787 #8873094

• Pharaon leur dit: Quelle est votre occupation? Ils répondirent à Pharaon: Tes serviteurs sont bergers, comme l’étaient nos pères.

  Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 47:3

• Deuxièmement, des règles quant à l'occupation du terrain.

  Secondly, rules relating to the occupation of land.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209915

• Occupation principale du demandeur: 愦灭※

  Primary occupation of the claimant: 愦灭※

  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 822532

• Jusqu ' à la fin de l ' occupation

  Until the end of the occupation

  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 18168524

forces

Used about 1 094 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · UN documents ≈ 1 030).

• Les forces d'occupation commettent toutes sortes de crimes de guerre dans la plus parfaite impunité.

  The occupying forces commit all sorts of war crimes with absolute impunity.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and shekitten · checked, community translation · #8681423 #3334858

• Monsieur le Président, je voudrais moi aussi soulever la même question pour condamner les actes de provocation perpétrés par les forces d' occupation de Chypre.

  Mr President, I wish to raise the same issue and to condemn the provocative action by the occupying forces in Cyprus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68609

• Les forces d ' occupation israéliennes ont fait irruption dans ses studios, arrêté M. Breik et confisqué du matériel de transmission et autres appareils.

  Israeli occupying forces broke into the station, arrested Mr. Breik and confiscated transmission and other equipment.

  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 16696447

• Des pays, des organisations internationales et des individus ont réagi à la violence des forces d'occupation en envoyant des messages de soutien à Vilnius.

  Countries, international organisations and individuals reacted to the violence of the occupying forces, sending messages of support to Vilnius.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1480359

• Le Président Abdiqassim Salad Hassan est intervenu personnellement pour prier instamment les dirigeants politiques éthiopiens de retirer les forces d ' occupation de notre pays.

  President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan has privately pleaded with the Ethiopian political leadership to remove the occupying forces from our country.

  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 8332310

More sentences

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

• Beaucoup d'écoliers palestiniens passent par des points de contrôle de l'armée d'occupation pour aller à l'école.

  A lot of Palestinian students pass through the occupying army's checkpoints to get to school.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and shekitten · checked, community translation · #7094518 #5029311

• Les espions ont pour occupation de savoir des choses que vous voulez qu'ils ignorent.

  Spies make it their business to know things that you don't want them to know.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #516083 #545761

• Elle avait du temps pour son occupation favorite.

  She had time for her favorite hobby.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · #1152300 #1116469

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