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# description — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: description (51 093), descriptions (5 388). By style: everyday 31 · literary 11 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 715 · legal and administrative 22 925 · UN documents 32 798.

## description

Used about 41 072 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 417 · legal and administrative ≈ 19 104 · UN documents ≈ 21 524). Forms: description, descriptions.

- Here is a brief **description**.
  Voici une brève **description**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4665808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4665808) [\#4714385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4714385))

- This young man wore the garb of a captain of the king’s unattached archers, which bears far too much resemblance to the costume of Jupiter, which the reader has already been enabled to admire in the first book of this history, for us to inflict upon him a second **description**.
  Ce jeune cavalier portait le brillant habit de capitaine des archers de l'ordonnance du roi, lequel ressemble beaucoup trop au costume de Jupiter, qu'on a déjà pu admirer au premier livre de cette histoire, pour que nous en fatiguions le lecteur d'une seconde **description**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3600)

- It will be a measure-by-measure **description**.
  Il s'agira d'une **description** mesure par mesure.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1368353)

- the **descriptions** of variables;
  les **descriptions** des variables;
  ([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 4664494)

- 1. **Description** of the parent vehicle
  1. **Description** du véhicule de base
  ([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 20916825)

## More sentences

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

- The beauty of the scenery was beyond **description**.
  La beauté du paysage était indescriptible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#44177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44177) [\#11489906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11489906))

- The princess was beautiful beyond **description**.
  La princesse était d'une beauté indescriptible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#49457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49457) [\#136511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136511))

- Her beauty was beyond **description**.
  Sa beauté était indescriptible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#287368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/287368) [\#133818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/133818))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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