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# expression — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: expression (58 835), expressions (6 311). By style: everyday 73 · literary 34 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 4 302 · legal and administrative 3 035 · UN documents 57 696.

## expression

Used about 41 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 2 510 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 138 · UN documents ≈ 37 262). Forms: expression, expressions.

- It's just an **expression**.
  C'est juste une **expression**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2162938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2162938) [\#2164132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2164132))

- Dom Claude’s visage had resumed its severe **expression**.
  Le visage de dom Claude avait repris son **expression** sévère.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4141)

- I apologise to the translators for using these peculiar **expressions**.
  Je m'excuse auprès des traducteurs pour ces **expressions** particulières.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1921539)

- as well as the following **expressions**:
  ainsi que les **expressions** suivantes:
  ([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 472435)

- of freedom of **expression**
  of freedom of **expression**
  ([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 9291744)

## liberté

Used about 46 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 45).

- Freedom of **expression** is the enemy of extremists.
  La **liberté** d'opinion est l'ennemie des extrémistes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and MessDjaaf · checked, community translation · [\#13039531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13039531) [\#7256884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7256884))

- It must outlaw torture, guarantee press freedom and the free **expression** of opinion, and press on with the fight against corruption.
  Il doit bannir la torture, garantir la **liberté** de la presse et la liberté d’opinion, et renforcer la lutte contre la corruption.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 667643)

## More sentences

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

- She looked at him with an inscrutable **expression**.
  Elle le regarda d'un air impénétrable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Neverin and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2757685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2757685) [\#12422447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12422447))

- He had a queer **expression** on his face.
  Il faisait une drôle de tête.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#295055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295055) [\#15412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15412))

- He looked at me with a strange **expression**.
  Il me regarda avec une drôle de mine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#303952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/303952) [\#1089561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1089561))

## 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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