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# expresses — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: expresses (38 107). By style: everyday 5 · literary 4 · parliamentary 776 · legal and administrative 491 · UN documents 36 831.

## exprime

Used about 9 141 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 356 · legal and administrative ≈ 338 · UN documents ≈ 8 440).

- She **expresses** herself in a rather stilted manner.
  Elle s'**exprime** d'une manière plutôt guindée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3162825](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3162825) [\#1426925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1426925))

- The gamin **expresses** Paris, and Paris **expresses** the world.
  Le gamin **exprime** Paris, et Paris exprime le monde.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12793)

- The modelling of the CFSP **expresses** that reality very well.
  Le modelage de la PESC **exprime** bien cette réalité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728996)

- In this context MCF **expresses** scepticism about a privatisation of the firm.
  Dans ce contexte, MCF **exprime** son scepticisme quant à une privatisation de l’entreprise.
  ([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 2531753)

- The council **expresses** the pupils &apos; views and raises matters for discussion.
  Le conseil **exprime** les vues des élèves et soulève des questions aux fins de discussion.
  ([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 4949335)

## More sentences

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

- What do we call the form of adjectives and adverbs that **expresses** a very high degree or the highest degree?
  Comment nomme-t-on la forme des adjectifs et des adverbes, qui expriment un degré supérieur ou le degré le plus élevé ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#9440841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9440841) [\#5242155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5242155))

- What put the “whole population of Paris in commotion,” as Jehan de Troyes **expresses** it, on the sixth of January, was the double solemnity, united from time immemorial, of the Epiphany and the Feast of Fools.
  Le 6 janvier, ce qui mettoit en émotion tout le populaire de Paris, comme dit Jehan de Troyes, c'était la double solennité, réunie depuis un temps immémorial, du jour des Rois et de la Fête des Fous.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 32)

- Finally, may I assure you that the European Commission **expresses** its satisfaction with the constructive approach by the European Parliament, which has focused its amendments on the recitals.
  Enfin, puis-je vous assurer que la Commission européenne est satisfaite de l’approche constructive du Parlement européen, qui a axé ses amendements sur les considérants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 594170)

## Grammar

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