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# expansion — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: expansion (37 047), expansions (315). By style: everyday 7 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 261 · legal and administrative 1 876 · UN documents 34 216.

## expansion

Used about 11 004 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 248 · legal and administrative ≈ 417 · UN documents ≈ 10 336).

- The **expansion** of the universe is speeding up.
  L'**expansion** de l'univers s'accélère.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1866457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1866457) [\#1869504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1869504))

- There are limits to **expansion** for the fleets from incoming applicant countries.
  L'**expansion** des flottes des pays candidats aura des limites.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1782811)

- Address: Dummar Province, **Expansion** Square, Island 19-Building 32 P.O. BOX: 2849 or 3378;
  Adresse: Dummar Province, **Expansion** Square, Island 19-Building 32 P.O.
  ([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 2543743)

- **expansion** of the Manitoba Breast Screening Program;
  :: **Expansion** du programme de dépistage du cancer du sein;
  ([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 16944937)

- The **expansion** of the Roman empire wiped out a great number of the original European languages.
  L'**expansion** de l'empire romain a pour ainsi dire annihilé une partie significative des langues européennes originelles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7773635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7773635) [\#1223914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1223914))

## élargissement

Used about 4 923 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 248 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 · UN documents ≈ 4 633).

- EU **expansion** had a great impact on EU agriculture.
  L'**élargissement** de l'UE a eu une forte incidence sur l'agriculture européenne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1378310)

- In order to reflect that **expansion** of its scope it is also appropriate to modify the product group name to ‘Electronic Displays’.
  Afin de tenir compte de cet **élargissement** du champ d’application, il convient également de modifier le nom du groupe de produits en «dispositifs d’affichage électroniques».
  ([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 5116642)

- Such **expansion** of the research base would discourage brain drain.
  Un tel **élargissement** de la base de recherche découragerait la fuite des cerveaux.
  ([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 8870434)

- Therefore, cohesion policy must be improved and **expansion** must be consolidated.
  Dès lors, il convient de perfectionner la politique de cohésion et de consolider l’**élargissement**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 630438)

- As a consequence of the progressive **expansion** of its jurisdiction since its creation, the number of cases before the General Court is now constantly increasing.
  À la suite de l'**élargissement** progressif de ses compétences depuis sa création, le Tribunal est aujourd'hui saisi d'un nombre d'affaires en augmentation constante.
  ([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 3745829)

## extension

Used about 4 190 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 207 · legal and administrative ≈ 417 · UN documents ≈ 3 564). Forms: extension, extensions.

- The **expansion** of the building's west end is being studied.
  L'**extension** des bâtiments ouest est à l'étude.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by paper1n0 and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#4736840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4736840) [\#804004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804004))

- In this field too we are now seeing an enormous **expansion**.
  Là encore, l'**extension** porte trop loin.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1956563)

- In particular the **expansion** of the capacity of the Arena by the addition of extra seats.
  Notamment l'**extension** de capacité du palais des sports par l'ajout de places assises.
  ([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 1701858)

- :: 39 were for **expansions** and
  :: 39 concernaient des **extensions**; et
  ([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 29419258)

- Artistic genius is an **expansion** of monkey imitativeness.
  Le génie artistique est une **extension** de mimétisme simiesque.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#1280970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1280970) [\#1674015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1674015))

## More sentences

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

- **Expansion** work is progressing.
  Les travaux d'agrandissement avancent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#12362933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12362933) [\#8635952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8635952))

- It's just a Taylor series **expansion**.
  C'est juste un développement de Taylor.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#2318634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2318634) [\#2318632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2318632))

- The symbol felt the need of **expansion** in the edifice.
  Le symbole avait besoin de s'épanouir dans l'édifice.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2585)

## 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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