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# communications — English to French

How English *communications* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: communications (132 484). By style: everyday 3 · parliamentary 1 955 · legal and administrative 6 349 · UN documents 124 177.

## communications

Used about 118 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 751 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 820 · UN documents ≈ 111 242). Forms: communication, communications.

- **Communications** broke down.
  Les **communications** ont été interrompues.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#56409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/56409) [\#9416764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9416764))

- Security of electronic **communications**
  Sécurité de la **communication** électronique
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1877742)

- GSM Global System for Mobile **communications**
  GSM Système mondial de **communications** mobiles
  ([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 1118920)

- **Communications** to the Editor
  **Communications** à la rédaction
  ([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 14112422)

- Spam refers to unsolicited mass electronic **communications**, particularly emails, sent to recipients for advertising or dishonest purposes.
  Les pourriels désignent les **communications** électroniques de masse, notamment de courriels, sans sollicitation des destinataires, à des fins publicitaires ou malhonnêtes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13538993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13538993) [\#13538992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13538992))

## concernant

Used about 2 587 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 587).

- A. Status of submission and review of sixth national **communications**
  A. État de la situation **concernant** la présentation et l &apos; examen des sixièmes
  ([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 29967164)

## électroniques

Used about 132 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 132).

- ‘information’ shall mean data, including personal data, documents, reports, and other **communications** in any format, including electronic copies thereof;
  «informations» : des données, y compris à caractère personnel, documents, rapports et toute autre communication, sous quelque forme que ce soit, y compris des copies **électroniques** de ceux-ci;
  ([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 297308)

## More sentences

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

- The senior maître acts as an expert in his field, whether in navigation, weaponry, or **communications**.
  Le maître principal agit en expert dans son domaine, qu’il s’agisse de navigation, d’armement ou de transmissions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362958) [\#13362957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362957))

- It is now easier to make a telephone call in Austria through an international **communications** network than to use our own national system.
  En Autriche, il est actuellement plus aisé de téléphoner via un réseau international que d'utiliser le système national.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1664193)

- Since the **communications** industry manages data transmission, it has de facto control over democratic discussion and the access to knowledge.
  Dans la mesure où le secteur des télécommunications gère la transmission des données, il contrôle de facto le débat démocratique et l'accès à la connaissance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1262050)

## Grammar

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