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# course — English to French

How English *course* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: course (127 922), courses (47 496). By style: everyday 309 · literary 63 · biblical 25 · parliamentary 33 233 · legal and administrative 9 083 · UN documents 132 705.

## cours

Used about 71 391 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 129 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 6 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 582 · UN documents ≈ 59 441).

- Tom takes online **courses**.
  Tom suit des **cours** en ligne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#1522331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522331) [\#10558583](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10558583))

- Claude Frollo’s felicitations to Jacques Coictier bore reference principally to the temporal advantages which the worthy physician had found means to extract, in the **course** of his much envied career, from each malady of the king, an operation of alchemy much better and more certain than the pursuit of the philosopher’s stone.
  Les félicitations de Claude Frollo à Jacques Coictier avaient trait surtout aux nombreux avantages temporels que le digne médecin avait su extraire, dans le **cours** de sa carrière si enviée, de chaque maladie du roi, opération d'une alchimie meilleure et plus certaine que la poursuite de la pierre philosophale.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2382)

- “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free **course** to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  Mon âme est dégoûtée de la vie! Je donnerai **cours** à ma plainte, Je parlerai dans l’amertume de mon âme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 10:1)

- Erasmus Mundus Masters **Courses** should be synonymous with quality.
  Les **cours** de masters Erasmus Mundus doivent être synonymes de qualité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 508416)

- Total costs of CVT **courses**.
  le coût total des **cours** de FPC,
  ([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 2147583)

## formation

Used about 15 524 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 039 · legal and administrative ≈ 662 · UN documents ≈ 13 823).

- Secondly, training **courses** for drivers should also pay attention to the rational use of energy.
  Deuxièmement, la **formation** devra consacrer du temps à la consommation rationnelle de l'énergie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 441150)

- Requirements for training **courses** and training plans
  Exigences relatives aux programmes de **formation** et aux plans de formation
  ([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 3602720)

- Senior mission leader **courses** (Austria and Brazil)
  Stages de **formation** à la direction des missions organisés en Autriche et au Brésil
  ([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 19981468)

- In order to be able to achieve these targets, there must be EU-wide recognition of education and training **courses** and qualifications.
  Pour atteindre ces objectifs, il importe de reconnaître les qualifications obtenues à l'issue des études ou d'un stage de **formation** au niveau de l'UE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1561647)

- A period (45 minutes) of participation of an employee in external language training **courses**
  Une période (45 minutes) de participation d'un salarié à une **formation** linguistique externe
  ([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 4414928)

## bien

Used about 14 302 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 7 270 · legal and administrative ≈ 95 · UN documents ≈ 6 912).

- That was a lie, of **course**.
  C'était un mensonge, **bien** entendu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5034057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5034057) [\#12698954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12698954))

- “Of **course**, you are acquainted with that street?”
  --Vous connaissez **bien** cette rue-là?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29403)

- That is, of **course**, a very good thing.
  C'est une très bonne chose **bien** sûr.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 956962)

- Such services are, of **course**, largely tied to the place where the waste is produced, but the more specific types of waste are transported over longer distances.
  **Bien** entendu, ces services sont en grande partie liés au lieu de production des déchets mais les types de déchets plus spécifiques sont transportés sur de plus longues distances.
  ([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 788406)

- Most often, of **course**, that generates threats to peace and security.
  Cela engendre, **bien** entendu, et le plus souvent, des atteintes à la paix et à la sécurité.
  ([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 10149156)

## sûr

Used about 182 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · legal and administrative ≈ 95).

- Of **course** I love her.
  Bien **sûr** que je l'aime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5857206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5857206) [\#10547254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10547254))

- Of **course**, where several scenarios are developed, each scenario requires its own overall probability.
  Bien **sûr**, lorsque plusieurs scénarios sont élaborés, chacun d'entre eux doit avoir sa propre probabilité globale.
  ([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 5667765)

- Of **course** I love you.
  Bien **sûr**, que je t'aime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and christian63 · checked, community translation · [\#5819678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5819678) [\#6098614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6098614))

- Of **course**, I told her.
  Bien **sûr**, je lui ai dit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and JumJum · checked, community translation · [\#3905367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3905367) [\#10095578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10095578))

- Of **course** not, darling.
  Bien **sûr** que non, mon chéri.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by letsgolanguages and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#10797605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10797605) [\#8648799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8648799))

## More sentences

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

- Tom did the best he could, but he still wasn't able to pass the **course**.
  Tom fit de son mieux, mais n'était toujours pas capable de valider la matière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · [\#1026460](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1026460) [\#5801880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5801880))

- This choice of words is of **course** not accidental.
  Le choix des mots n'est naturellement pas un hasard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11066097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11066097) [\#1441045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1441045))

- Of **course**, to die in Italy is more interesting.
  Mourir en Italie est certainement plus intéressant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NikiTricky and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12159995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12159995) [\#3269042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3269042))

## 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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