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# imports — English to French

How English *imports* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations 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: imports (63 323). By style: everyday 27 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 724 · legal and administrative 47 166 · UN documents 13 405.

## importations

Used about 57 727 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 327 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 218 · UN documents ≈ 11 171). Forms: importation, importations.

- The customs office controls **imports**.
  Le Bureau des douanes contrôle les **importations**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406289) [\#13406288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406288))

- Resolution on **imports** of garlic
  Résolution sur les **importations** d'ail
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1987339)

- **Imports** originating in China
  **Importations** originaires de Chine
  ([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 2495434)

- Reports on exports and **imports**
  Rapports sur les exportations et les **importations**
  ([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 14636097)

- Cheap **imports** will glut the market.
  Les **importations** bas de gamme vont saturer le marché.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#28499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28499) [\#11778441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11778441))

## objet

Used about 1 039 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57 · legal and administrative ≈ 983).

- What our report is about is the quality of European wine, which can certainly stand comparison with that of **imports** from the New World.
  L'**objet** de notre rapport, c'est la qualité du vin européen, qui peut assurément souffrir la comparaison avec le vin importé du Nouveau monde.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1005517)

- However, in the causal link context, the question as to why the prices of these dumped **imports** were at a given level is irrelevant.
  Cependant, dans le contexte de l'analyse du lien de causalité, cette question est sans **objet**.
  ([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 698869)

## marché

Used about 983 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 983).

- At the same time the market share of these **imports** increased from 13,8 % in 2001 to 18,3 % in the IP.
  Parallèlement, leur part de **marché** s'est accrue de 13,8 % en 2001 à 18,3 % durant la période d'enquête.
  ([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 1028172)

## provenance

Used about 983 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 983).

- any experience of previous **imports** of live equidae from the third country and the results of any import controls carried out;
  toute expérience acquise en matière d’importation d'équidés vivants en **provenance** du pays tiers et les résultats des contrôles éventuellement effectués à l’importation;
  ([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 426412)

## More sentences

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

- Algeria **imports** automobiles from France.
  L'Algérie importe des voitures de France.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#7858605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7858605) [\#8730495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8730495))

- Japan **imports** a large quantity of oil.
  Le Japon importe une grande quantité de pétrole.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Korekorin · checked, community translation · [\#281573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281573) [\#1163793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1163793))

- Algeria **imports** more than it exports.
  L'Algérie importe plus qu'elle n'exporte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and genes1s · checked, community translation · [\#10105270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10105270) [\#13337872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13337872))

## Grammar

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