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# conviction — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: conviction (19 414), convictions (9 840). By style: everyday 23 · literary 8 · parliamentary 1 807 · legal and administrative 450 · UN documents 26 966.

## condamnation

Used about 13 732 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 132 · legal and administrative ≈ 398 · UN documents ≈ 13 202). Forms: condamnation, condamnations.

- Some people have serious doubts about this kind of **conviction**.
  Certaines personnes émettent des doutes à propos de telles **condamnations**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1596638)

- the type of their **conviction**;
  le type de **condamnation** dont ils ont fait l'objet;
  ([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 1235694)

- To this date, no case has yet led to a **conviction**.
  À ce jour, aucune affaire n &apos; a encore abouti à une **condamnation**.
  ([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 29417841)

- These five Cuban patriots must be released and their **convictions** overturned.
  Ces cinq patriotes cubains doivent être libérés et leur **condamnation**, annulée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 841712)

- the type of their **conviction**;
  le type de **condamnation** dont ils ont fait l’objet;
  ([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 2747711)

## conviction

Used about 8 428 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 374 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 · UN documents ≈ 7 022). Forms: conviction, convictions.

- **Convictions** are prisons.
  Les **convictions** sont des prisons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by luci and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#4320430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4320430) [\#8609144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8609144))

- Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from profound **conviction**.
  Javert se mit à rire de ce rire douloureux qui échappe à une **conviction** profonde:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4689)

- Allow me to share my **conviction** with you.
  Et laissez-moi vous dire ma **conviction**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 72263)

- ‘Religion’ should be understood as broadly referring to persons defined by reference to their religious **convictions** or beliefs.
  D’une manière générale, le terme «religion» désigne les personnes définies par référence à leurs **convictions** religieuses ou croyances.
  ([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 1429760)

- Political or ideological **conviction**
  **conviction** politique ou idéologique
  ([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 17538090)

## More sentences

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

- Betty has a previous **conviction** for theft.
  Betty a déjà été condamnée pour vol.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#426652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/426652) [\#879574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/879574))

- She always stands up for her **convictions**.
  Elle campe toujours sur ses positions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#310444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/310444) [\#1972735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1972735))

- The defendant has no prior **convictions**.
  L'accusé n'a pas d'antécédents judiciaires.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2247195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247195) [\#11906923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11906923))

## 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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