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# engagement — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: engagement (34 529), engagements (2 264). By style: everyday 37 · literary 4 · parliamentary 774 · legal and administrative 1 108 · UN documents 34 870.

## engagement

Used about 15 085 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 619 · legal and administrative ≈ 658 · UN documents ≈ 13 803). Forms: engagement, engagements.

- **Engagement** isn't marriage.
  Un **engagement** n'est pas un mariage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#12203764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12203764) [\#7090632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7090632))

- The **engagement** was concluded there and then.
  L'**engagement** fut conclu hic et nunc.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1913)

- My fourth point concerns **engagement**.
  Mon quatrième point concerne l'**engagement**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1434038)

- Autopilot/autothrottle **engagement** status
  État d'**engagement** du pilote automatique/automanette
  ([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 1075881)

- (CRP.6) : introduction et **engagements** 1 et 2)
  (CRP.6) : introduction et **engagements** 1 et 2)
  ([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 8286762)

## More sentences

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

- I have another **engagement**.
  J'ai une autre obligation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#320311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/320311) [\#1337110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1337110))

- What a beautiful **engagement** ring!
  Quelle belle bague de fiançailles !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12140481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12140481) [\#12140494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12140494))

- She doesn't want him to buy an expensive **engagement** ring.
  Elle ne veut pas qu'il achète une bague de fiançailles onéreuse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887093) [\#1395324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1395324))

## 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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