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# commerce — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: commerce (25 811), commerces (4). By style: everyday 6 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 127 · legal and administrative 1 836 · UN documents 22 844.

## commerce

Used about 22 528 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 305 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 568 · UN documents ≈ 20 647).

- **Commerce** helps our economy.
  Le **commerce** aide notre économie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11564149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11564149) [\#11564162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11564162))

- By the abundance of your **commerce**, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
  Par la grandeur de ton **commerce** Tu as été rempli de violence, et tu as péché; Je te précipite de la montagne de Dieu, Et je te fais disparaître, chérubin protecteur, Du milieu des pierres étincelantes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 28:16)

- This is not the role of **commerce**, nor can it be.
  Cela n'est pas le rôle du **commerce** ni ne peut l'être.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1509332)

- Ministry of **Commerce**, New Delhi
  Ministère du **commerce**, New Delhi
  ([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 1649663)

- ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU **COMMERCE** (OMC)
  ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU **COMMERCE** (OMC)
  ([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 6679216)

## électronique

Used about 775 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 775).

- Legal aspects of electronic **commerce**
  Aspects juridiques du commerce **électronique**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 46047)

- E-**commerce** is in its early stages.
  Le commerce **électronique** en est à ses balbutiements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 46132)

- Business consumer e-**commerce** is still rather small.
  Le commerce **électronique** entre les entreprises et les consommateurs demeure assez modeste.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 286925)

- I will also mention the electronic 'shopping basket' used in e-**commerce**.
  Je citerai encore le caddie **électronique** dans un commerce par Internet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 494523)

- There are those who reject any form of taxation, including tax on e-**commerce**.
  Il y a ceux qui s'opposent à toute taxation, y compris celle du commerce **électronique**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 134712)

## More sentences

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

- It is often said that Osaka is a city of **commerce**.
  On dit souvent qu'Osaka est une ville commerçante.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1771902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1771902) [\#1776239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1776239))

- We should be expanding e-**commerce**.
  Nous devrions également promouvoir les transactions électroniques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1090556)

- We need to improve communication between consumers and **commerce**.
  Il est nécessaire d'améliorer le dialogue entre les consommateurs et les commerçants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1752372)

## 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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