questions — French to English

How French questions is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: questions (710 342). By style: everyday 629 · literary 21 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 33 549 · legal and administrative 12 573 · UN documents 663 558.

issues

Used about 347 078 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 9 785 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 501 · UN documents ≈ 331 779).

• Nous devons nous pencher sur ces questions.

  We need to address those issues.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #9458343 #12240036

• Celui-ci doit inclure toutes les questions.

  This must include all of the issues.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318082

• d'autres questions spécifiques propres au dossier.

  other case specific issues.

  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 4335484

• D. Les questions transsectorielles

  D. Cross-cutting issues

  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 14622533

• Je me limiterai donc aux principales questions.

  I will therefore focus on some of the main issues.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 585362

questions

Used about 156 878 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 616 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 15 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 619 · UN documents ≈ 138 241).

• Nous avons quelques questions.

  We have a few questions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2545695 #7872239

• Il accablait le médecin de questions.

  He overwhelmed the doctor with questions.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28867

• Salomon répondit à toutes ses questions, et il n’y eut rien que le roi ne sût lui expliquer.

  Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 10:3

• J’ai reçu d’autres questions de procédure.

  Other procedural questions have been put to me.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 590173

• Les questions orientant la recherche sont les suivantes:

  Research questions are the following:

  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 4475822

matters

Used about 63 157 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 194 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 667 · UN documents ≈ 55 297).

• Interventions d'une minute sur des questions politiques importantes

  One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1146312

• modifiant l'annexe I (Questions vétérinaires et phytosanitaires) de l'accord EEE

  amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement

  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 39220

• Finalisation de toutes les questions en suspens et achèvement des travaux

  Finalization of all outstanding matters and documents processing

  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 15842557

• L'ordre du jour appelle une communication de la Commission sur des questions politiques, urgentes et d'importance majeure.

  The next item is a Commission communication on urgent political matters of major importance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767549

• modifiant l’annexe I (Questions vétérinaires et phytosanitaires) de l’accord EEE

  amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement

  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 88465

answer

Used about 13 824 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 13 824). Meaning: answer in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ces échanges ont été suivis d ' une séance de questions-réponses au cours de laquelle d ' autres participants ont aussi décrit leurs expériences nationales.

  This was followed by a question and answer session during which other participants also presented their national experiences.

  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 26538776

More sentences

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

• Jésus, voyant qu’il avait répondu avec intelligence, lui dit: Tu n’es pas loin du royaume de Dieu. Et personne n’osa plus lui proposer des questions.

  When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 12:34

• Et il se détourna de lui pour s’adresser à un autre, et fit les mêmes questions. Le peuple lui répondit comme la première fois.

  He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:30

• Il lui adressa beaucoup de questions; mais Jésus ne lui répondit rien.

  He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:9

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