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# division — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: division (145 913), divisions (13 933). By style: everyday 9 · literary 7 · biblical 68 · parliamentary 2 162 · legal and administrative 6 578 · UN documents 151 022.

## divisions

Used about 145 340 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 1 239 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 043 · UN documents ≈ 140 010). Forms: division, divisions.

- The Pope? How many **divisions** has he got?
  Le Pape, combien de **divisions** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and Clavain · checked, community translation · [\#437611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437611) [\#437613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437613))

- Selfishness is not one of the **divisions** of the social order.
  L'égoïsme n'est pas une des **divisions** de l'ordre social.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18114)

- So a **division** arose in the multitude because of him.
  Il y eut donc, à cause de lui, **division** parmi la foule.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:43)

- The first major risk is the **division** of Kosovo.
  Le premier est la **division** du Kosovo.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1210683)

- ICES **Divisions** VII f and g
  **Divisions** CIEM VII f et g
  ([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 926519)

## ciem

Used about 1 165 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 165).

- ICES sub-**division** Xa 2
  sous-division X a 2 du **CIEM**
  ([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 657760)

- ICES **division** VIIa — Irish Sea
  Division **CIEM** VII a — Mer d'Irlande
  ([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 1791361)

- ICES statistical sub-**division** Vb 1b
  Sous-division statistique V b 1 b du **CIEM**
  ([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 657857)

- ICES **division** VIId — Eastern Channel
  Division **CIEM** VII d — Manche orientale
  ([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 926938)

- ICES **division** VIIg — Celtic Sea North
  Division **CIEM** VII g — Mer Celtique nord
  ([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 1476122)

## More sentences

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

- Two cells (a sperm and an egg) come together to form a new cell (the embryo), which replicates by **division** in geometric progression to form a human being, which has about 37 trillion cells.
  Deux cellules (un spermatozoïde et un ovule) s'unissent pour former une nouvelle cellule (l'embryon), qui se réplique en se divisant en progression géométrique, jusqu'à former un être humain, qui compte environ 37 000 milliards de cellules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10584241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10584241) [\#10584254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10584254))

- His **division**, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
  et son corps d’armée composé de cinquante-neuf mille trois cents hommes, d’après le dénombrement;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 2:13)

- His **division**, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
  et son corps d’armée composé de quarante et un mille cinq cents hommes, d’après le dénombrement;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 2:28)

## 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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