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# exception — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: exception (39 303), exceptions (15 301). By style: everyday 74 · literary 10 · parliamentary 3 340 · legal and administrative 11 237 · UN documents 39 943.

## exception

Used about 37 093 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 72 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 609 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 194 · UN documents ≈ 26 213). Forms: exception, exceptions.

- There are **exceptions**.
  Il y a des **exceptions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2182121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2182121) [\#2187158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2187158))

- The Vaugirard cemetery formed an **exception** among the cemeteries of Paris.
  Le cimetière Vaugirard faisait **exception** parmi les cimetières de Paris.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11933)

- Last year was an **exception**.
  L'année dernière a fait **exception** à la règle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 923079)

- That **exception** shall not apply to:
  Cette **exception** ne s'applique pas:
  ([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 4099947)

- Possible **exceptions** to immunity
  **Exceptions** possibles à l &apos; immunité
  ([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 25652862)

## règle

Used about 837 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 70 · legal and administrative ≈ 351 · UN documents ≈ 416).

- I reserve the right to make an **exception** to my own rule on some occasions.
  Je me réserve toutefois le droit de déroger à ma propre **règle** dans certains cas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1673938)

- The **exceptions** to the rule of applying maximum added amounts have a limited character.
  Les dérogations à la **règle** des doses maximales ajoutées ont un caractère limité.
  ([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 2014595)

- **Exceptions** may be made for the displays of individual devices, such as speed indicators or echo sounders.
  Peuvent déroger à cette **règle** les écrans de certains appareils tels que les indicateurs de vitesse et écho sondeurs.
  ([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 24622013)

- Nobody wants to have a bad name in the world, and Afghanistan is no **exception**.
  Personne ne souhaite voir sa réputation ternie à travers le monde et l’Afghanistan ne déroge pas à cette **règle**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 673202)

- The **exceptions** to the rule of applying maximum added amounts have a limited character.
  Les dérogations à la **règle** consistant à fixer une limite aux doses maximales ajoutées ont un caractère limité.
  ([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 3491777)

## More sentences

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

- He's offended at the slightest thing, he takes **exception** to nearly everything we say to him.
  Il se froisse au moindre truc, il se formalise d'à peu près tout ce qu'on lui dit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#678392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/678392) [\#678401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/678401))

- Every law has its **exception**.
  Toute loi a ses exemptions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#679585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/679585) [\#808440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/808440))

- With that **exception**, Paris is amiable.
  À cela près, Paris est bon enfant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12812)

## 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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