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# event — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: event (95 253), events (84 631). By style: everyday 106 · literary 29 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 11 854 · legal and administrative 24 167 · UN documents 143 724.

## événements

Used about 53 141 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · literary ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 5 063 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 063 · UN documents ≈ 38 925). Forms: événement, événements.

- It's a religious **event**.
  C'est un **événement** religieux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Vykan · checked, community translation · [\#7590561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7590561) [\#7591134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7591134))

- A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms with **events**.
  Qui rit de la sorte est en familiarité avec les **événements**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7052)

- Such **events** should never reoccur.
  De tels **événements** ne doivent jamais se reproduire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1125062)

- Other major sports **events**:
  Autres **événements** sportifs majeurs:
  ([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 1160328)

- Forthcoming **events** and activities
  **Événements** et activités à venir
  ([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 14380014)

## cas

Used about 21 359 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 346 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 538 · UN documents ≈ 13 474).

- Lastly, in the **event** of a real risk, we must take urgent preventative measures.
  Enfin, en **cas** de risque réel, il faut prendre d'urgence les mesures de prévention.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 107646)

- In the **event** of ingestion: Rinse mouth.
  En **cas** d'ingestion: rincer la bouche.
  ([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 4678956)

- Actions in the **event** of an accident or emergency
  Mesures à prendre en **cas** d &apos; urgence ou d &apos; accident
  ([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 19134896)

- In any **event**, it is the position that the Commission is going to present to the European Council.
  En tout **cas**, c'est la position que la Commission va présenter au Conseil européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1099718)

- In the **event** of any tie the oldest candidate shall be appointed.
  Dans tous les **cas** d'égalité des voix, le candidat le plus âgé l'emporte.
  ([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 2326713)

## More sentences

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

- The **event** starts at six o'clock in the evening.
  L'évènement commence à six heures du soir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7954981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7954981) [\#8486368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8486368))

- I took part in the sporting **event**.
  Je pris part à la manifestation sportive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#471384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/471384) [\#471297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/471297))

- The **event** has been postponed.
  L'évènement a été repoussé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5301734](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5301734) [\#8824005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8824005))

## 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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