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# concept — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: concept (59 791), concepts (20 577). By style: everyday 35 · parliamentary 5 578 · legal and administrative 3 928 · UN documents 70 827.

## concept

Used about 39 018 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 4 067 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 455 · UN documents ≈ 32 462). Forms: concept, concepts.

- Do you understand the **concept**?
  Comprends-tu le **concept** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3825610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3825610) [\#6930095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6930095))

- Success starts with clear **concepts**.
  La clarté des **concepts** est le début du succès.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 114633)

- Name of code list or **concept**
  Nom de la liste de codes ou du **concept**
  ([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 1518296)

- Methodology, **concepts** and practices
  Methodology, **concepts** and practices
  ([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 19026449)

- Do you understand the **concept**?
  Comprenez-vous le **concept** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3825610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3825610) [\#6930096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6930096))

## notions

Used about 21 350 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 407 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 023 · UN documents ≈ 19 920). Forms: notion, notions.

- In other countries such as the United Kingdom it is a more pragmatic **concept**.
  Dans d'autres pays, tel que le Royaume-Uni, ce mot renvoie à une **notion** plus pragmatique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 264350)

- **Concept** of undertaking and economic activity
  **Notions** d'entreprise et d'activité économique
  ([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 3800749)

- V. APPLICATION OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT **CONCEPTS**
  V. APPLICATION DE **NOTIONS** DE GESTION FINANCIÈRE
  ([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 6155244)

- With this text, there can no longer be any confusion between the **concepts** of danger and of risk.
  Avec ce texte, on ne pourra plus confondre les **notions** de danger et de risque.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1190762)

- Point 2.1 of the guidelines defines this **concept**.
  Le point 2.1 des lignes directrices définit cette **notion**.
  ([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 843217)

## More sentences

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

- A child's self-**concept** is how the child characteristically sees or feels about himself or herself.
  La perception de soi qu’un enfant ressent est la manière dont il se voit ou se perçoit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ylberi and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4395345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4395345) [\#9534085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9534085))

- We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple **concept**: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one."
  Nous sommes façonnés par chaque culture, provenant des quatre coins de la Terre, et dévoués à une idée simple : E pluribus unum : "De plusieurs, un".
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saeb and Clavain · checked, community translation · [\#376924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/376924) [\#437457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437457))

- The internalization of external costs remains an inescapable requirement, despite the committee's failure to support it, and despite differences over the precise definition of the **concept**.
  Toutefois, le refus au sein de la commission de l'internalisation des coûts externes reste d'actualité, même s'il subsiste des divergences d'interprétation quant à la juste définition.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1740772)

## 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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