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# distribution — English to French

How English *distribution* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: distribution (93 555), distributions (1 339). By style: everyday 6 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 968 · legal and administrative 12 294 · UN documents 79 622.

## distribution

Used about 48 263 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 710 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 221 · UN documents ≈ 37 323). Forms: distribution, distributions.

- I love the **distribution** of gifts.
  J’adore la **distribution** des cadeaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and christian63 · checked, community translation · [\#6698178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6698178) [\#5990558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5990558))

- In the second, the **distribution** of enjoyment.
  Dans le second de la **distribution** des jouissances.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18279)

- and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and **distribution** was made to each, according as anyone had need.
  et le déposaient aux pieds des apôtres; et l’on faisait des **distributions** à chacun selon qu’il en avait besoin.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 4:35)

- They are geared towards a fairer **distribution** in the world.
  Elles sont orientées vers une **distribution** plus juste dans le monde.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 677930)

- Geographical **distribution** of the organism
  **Distribution** géographique de l'organisme
  ([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 1054492)

## répartition

Used about 24 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 755 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 921 · UN documents ≈ 21 564).

- Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the **distribution** and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.
  Les tendances au gel et à la dislocation des glaces influencent la **répartition** et le nombre des phoques qui restent la principale proie des ours polaires.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#57436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57436) [\#987173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/987173))

- Moreover, the financial **distribution** system is fairer.
  En outre, elle améliore l'équité de la **répartition** du système financier.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1994820)

- Q-dummy mass **distributions**
  **Répartition** des masses des mannequins de la famille Q
  ([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 5525072)

- **Distribution** of staff releases in FTE
  **Répartition** du temps libre accordé
  ([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 26584952)

- We endorse this **distribution** of tasks in accordance with the Treaty.
  Nous soutenons cette **répartition** des tâches conformément au Traité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 246826)

## dividendes

Used about 957 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 128 · UN documents ≈ 829).

- the total of all the **distributions** is less than EUR \[5-8\] million;
  le total des **dividendes** distribués soit inférieur à \[5-8\] millions d'EUR;
  ([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 3794697)

- LLPs allow **distributions** to flow through the partnership structure to the limited partners and be taxed at the limited partners.
  Dans ces sociétés en commandite, les **dividendes** sont distribués à travers la structure et imposés.
  ([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 19011165)

## More sentences

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

- We are insisting on continuing to have an independent channel of **distribution** in order to ensure that we perform better than has been claimed in this debate.
  Je ne peux accepter le chiffre insuffisant de 3 % pour ce qui est de la portée effective de notre action sur les bonnes personnes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 312599)

- The **distribution** of child pornography on the net is also a criminal offence, and so is making child pornography.
  La diffusion de pédopornographie sur le Net est un crime aussi. La réalisation de cette pédopornographie est un crime également.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 33646)

- In addition, we will cooperate with our European partners to develop Internet filters to stem the **distribution** of child pornography.
  En outre, nous coopérerons avec nos partenaires européens à l'élaboration de filtres sur Internet de façon à endiguer la diffusion de matériel pédopornographique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1979737)

## 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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