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# choice — English to French

How English *choice* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: choice (33 069), choices (9 664). By style: everyday 455 · literary 12 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 5 574 · legal and administrative 4 784 · UN documents 31 885.

## choix

Used about 31 388 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 372 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 5 051 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 037 · UN documents ≈ 21 921).

- The **choice** is yours.
  C'est ton **choix**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#1898221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1898221) [\#1248218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1248218))

- A crowd offers a **choice** of ugliness.
  Une foule est un **choix** de laideurs.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14494)

- The tongue of the righteous is like **choice** silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
  La langue du juste est un argent de **choix**; Le cœur des méchants est peu de chose.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 10:20)

- It is all about **choices**.
  Tout est une question de **choix**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1316961)

- justification for **choice** of vehicle.
  justification du **choix** du véhicule.
  ([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 1530484)

## More sentences

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

- You have to make a careful **choice** of books.
  Tu dois choisir tes livres avec précaution.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Kenji75018 · checked, community translation · [\#68942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/68942) [\#6579757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6579757))

- No one opposed the **choice**.
  Personne ne s'opposa à la décision.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#805307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805307) [\#1620273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1620273))

- What **choices** do we have?
  De quelles options disposons-nous ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1886798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886798) [\#2048006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2048006))

## 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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