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# commission — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: commission (1 307 863), commissions (43 844). By style: everyday 15 · literary 3 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 173 450 · legal and administrative 427 600 · UN documents 750 634.

## commission

Used about 1 285 504 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 160 803 · legal and administrative ≈ 405 329 · UN documents ≈ 719 358). Forms: commission, commissions.

- How much is the **commission**?
  Quelle est la **commission** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and shiboy · checked, community translation · [\#266029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266029) [\#338107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/338107))

- “But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary **commission**—”
  --Mais, révérende mère, si l'agent de la **commission** de salubrité....
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11584)

- Both **Commissions** deserve blame.
  Les deux **Commissions** doivent être punies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1686947)

- Member of the **Commission**
  Membre de la **Commission**
  ([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 1569394)

- Sub-**Commission** on Prevention of
  Sous-**Commission** de la lutte contre
  ([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 1198496)

## More sentences

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

- The **commission** is perfectly capable of finding a solution to this disaster.
  Le comité est tout à fait capable de trouver un remède à cette catastrophe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JeanM and JeanM · checked, community translation · [\#8328053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328053) [\#8328062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328062))

- Where did you **commission** this painting?
  Où avez-vous commandé ce tableau ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6796153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6796153) [\#6795808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6795808))

- “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and **commission** from the chief priests,
  C’est dans ce but que je me rendis à Damas, avec l’autorisation et la permission des principaux sacrificateurs.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 26:12)

## 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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