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# attention — English to French

How English *attention* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: attention (208 326), attentions (47). By style: everyday 367 · literary 55 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 16 192 · legal and administrative 4 396 · UN documents 187 341.

## attention

Used about 121 825 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 306 · literary ≈ 39 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 10 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 572 · UN documents ≈ 107 721).

- They didn't pay **attention**.
  Ils n'ont pas fait **attention**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3272170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272170) [\#3272171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272171))

- He redoubled his **attention**.
  Il redoubla d'**attention**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6965)

- Yes, I gave you my full **attention**, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
  Je vous ai donné toute mon **attention**; Et voici, aucun de vous ne l’a convaincu, Aucun n’a réfuté ses paroles.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 32:12)

- Thank you for your **attention**.
  Je vous remercie pour votre **attention**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1524384)

- Special **attention** shall be given to co-formulants.
  Une **attention** particulière est accordée aux coformulants.
  ([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 2395238)

## membres

Used about 4 684 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 684).

- 44. To protect children from the **attentions** of unscrupulous medical practitioners, the Panamanian authorities should consider introducing a minimum age below which children were not permitted to consult a doctor without parental consent.
  44. Pour protéger les enfants contre les attentions de **membres** peu scrupuleux du corps médical, les autorités panaméennes devraient envisager de fixer un âge minimum au—dessous duquel les enfants ne pourraient consulter un médecin sans consentement parental.
  ([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 3817808)

- 13. The High-level Panel of Experts will: (a) assess and analyse the current state of food security and nutrition and its underlying causes; (b) provide scientific and knowledge-based analysis and advice on specific policy-relevant issues, utilizing existing high quality research, data and technical studies; and (c) identify emerging issues, and help the Committee and its members to prioritize future actions and **attentions** on key focal areas.
  Le Groupe d &apos; experts de haut niveau : a) évaluera et analysera la situation actuelle en matière de sécurité alimentaire et de nutrition et ses causes profondes; b) fournira des analyses scientifiques fondées sur des connaissances et des avis sur des questions précises relatives aux politiques, en s &apos; appuyant sur les recherches, données et études techniques de qualité disponibles; et c) identifiera les questions émergentes et aidera le Comité et ses **membres** à établir un ordre de priorité pour ses interventions et ses centres d &apos; intérêt à venir.
  ([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 21863325)

## particulière

Used about 2 342 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 342).

- Special **attention** was also given to the prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people and mother-to-child transmission of the virus
  En outre, elles attachent une importance **particulière** à la prévention du VIH/sida chez les jeunes et de la transmission materno-foetale du virus.
  ([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 7186617)

## je

Used about 797 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 783).

- Are you making fun of me or what? That's thrice now that I've told you to stop talking and to pay **attention** to the class.
  Tu te moques de moi ou quoi ? Ça fait trois fois que **je** te demande d'arrêter de parler et de suivre le cours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#597674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/597674) [\#594154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/594154))

- “I must call your **attention** to the fact,” continued the king, “that you will be hung all the same.”
  --**Je** te fais remarquer, reprit le roi, que tu n'en seras pas moins pendu pour cela.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1321)

- Until I come, pay **attention** to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
  Jusqu’à ce que **je** vienne, applique-toi à la lecture, à l’exhortation, à l’enseignement.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 4:13)

- I think it is tremendous that Europe is able to devote its **attention** to problems such as these.
  **Je** trouve que c’est formidable que l’Europe puisse à présent s’atteler à un problème comme celui-là.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 576348)

- I was able to develop this series of unanswerable reasons for ten minutes without interruption; not that the Professor was paying any respectful **attention** to his nephew's arguments, but because he was deaf to all my eloquence.
  De ces raisons toutes irréfutables **je** pus dérouler la série pendant dix minutes sans être interrompu, mais cela vint uniquement de l'inattention du professeur, qui n'entendit pas un mot de mon argumentation.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3305)

## More sentences

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

- She was desperate for **attention**.
  Elle désespérait qu'on s'intéresse à elle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3118310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3118310) [\#4765603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4765603))

- Everybody seems to pay **attention** to what he says.
  Tout le monde a l'air d'être attentif à ce qu'il dit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and fucongcong · checked, community translation · [\#22094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22094) [\#9490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9490))

- **Attention** doesn't hurt.
  La prudence ne nuit pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4539236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4539236) [\#3399244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3399244))

## 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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