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Forms: discussion, discussions. - That's under **discussion**. C'est en **discussion**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6484270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6484270) [\#7815900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7815900)) - And this **discussion**, which had gone on all day, began again with the soup. Et la **discussion**, qui avait duré toute la journée, reprit dès le potage. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1250) - Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and **discussion** with them, they appointed Paul, Barnabas, and some others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. Paul et Barnabas eurent avec eux un débat et une vive **discussion**; et les frères décidèrent que Paul et Barnabas, et quelques-uns des leurs, monteraient à Jérusalem vers les apôtres et les anciens, pour traiter cette question. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:2) - This is an internal EU **discussion**. Il s'agit d'une **discussion** interne au sein de l'Union. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 492116) - PRIOR NOTIFICATION WITH **DISCUSSION** NOTIFICATION PRÉALABLE AVEC **DISCUSSION** ([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 2461972) ## débats Used about 69 332 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 2 159 · legal and administrative ≈ 239 · UN documents ≈ 66 927). Forms: débat, débats. - It's not a suitable topic for **discussion**. Ce n'est pas un sujet de **débat** convenable. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#42207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42207) [\#2118889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2118889)) - That is not part of this **discussion**. Cela ne fait pas partie de ce **débat**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 573610) - **Discussions** shall be confidential. Les **débats** sont confidentiels. ([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 5138979) - II. Summary of **discussions** 9 II. Résumé des **débats** 9 ([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 7502059) - The three-day **discussion** was worthwhile. Les trois jours de **débats** en valaient la peine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Snout · checked, community translation · [\#244997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244997) [\#521588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/521588)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Any further **discussion** is pointless. Ce n'est plus la peine de discuter. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sbamsbamsbam · checked, community translation · [\#4073430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4073430) [\#4080921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4080921)) - I would like to have a **discussion** with Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li. Je voudrais discuter avec monsieur Zhang et monsieur Li. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by peterius and xbx · checked, community translation · [\#5901286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5901286) [\#661078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/661078)) - There was a **discussion** on the measures. Ces mesures ont été débattues. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#275282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275282) [\#640110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/640110)) ## 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 Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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