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# adoption — English to French

How English *adoption* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [adoption in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/adoption/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: adoption (248 160), adoptions (3 603). By style: everyday 2 · literary 1 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 6 645 · legal and administrative 15 736 · UN documents 229 374.

## adoption

Used about 210 096 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 6 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 174 · UN documents ≈ 188 756). Forms: adoption, adoptions.

- The reduction of subsidies to the Cultural Heritage sector requires the **adoption** of a new paradigm.
  La réduction des subventions pour le Patrimoine Culturel exige l'**adoption** d'un nouveau paradigme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by riccioberto and NomadSoul · checked, community translation · [\#965631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/965631) [\#970585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/970585))

- that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the **adoption** as children.
  afin qu’il rachetât ceux qui étaient sous la loi, afin que nous reçussions l’**adoption**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:5)

- Subject: International **adoptions** and Romania
  Objet : **Adoptions** internationales et Roumanie
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 314633)

- Subject: **Adoption** of RO–a–UK–6
  Objet: **adoption** de RO-a-UK-6.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2790045)

- **Adoption** of the agenda
  **Adoption** de l &apos; ordre du jour
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27731745)

## décision

Used about 4 779 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 779).

- 24. Recommends the following draft decision to the Economic and Social Council for **adoption**:
  24. Recommande au Conseil économique et social d &apos; adopter le projet de **décision** suivant:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 12026674)

- In paragraph 6 of its report, the Committee recommends to the General Assembly the **adoption** of a draft decision that the Committee adopted without a vote.
  Au paragraphe 6 de son rapport, la Commission recommande à l &apos; Assemblée générale d &apos; adopter un projet de **décision** que la Commission a adopté sans le mettre aux voix.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19788272)

## More sentences

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

- Tom was born in China and sent to the US for **adoption** at the age of three.
  Tom est né en Chine et a été adopté aux États-Unis à l'âge de trois ans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Selena777 and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#6384787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6384787) [\#6384799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6384799))

- He had become a few years previously the bellringer of Notre-Dame, thanks to his father by **adoption**, Claude Frollo,—who had become archdeacon of Josas, thanks to his suzerain, Messire Louis de Beaumont,—who had become Bishop of Paris, at the death of Guillaume Chartier in 1472, thanks to his patron, Olivier Le Daim, barber to Louis XI., king by the grace of God.
  Il était devenu, depuis plusieurs années, sonneur de cloches de Notre-Dame, grâce à son père adoptif Claude Frollo, lequel était devenu archidiacre de Josas, grâce à son suzerain messire Louis de Beaumont, lequel était devenu évêque de Paris en 1472, à la mort de Guillaume Chartier, grâce à son patron Olivier le Daim, barbier du roi Louis XI par la grâce de Dieu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2151)

- Consequently, I expect **adoption** of our amended proposal at first reading.
  Par conséquent, je m’attends à ce que cette proposition amendée soit adoptée en première lecture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 800335)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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