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# incident — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: incident (23 070), incidents (35 313). By style: everyday 58 · literary 18 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 947 · legal and administrative 3 085 · UN documents 53 274.

## incident

Used about 43 547 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · literary ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 379 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 699 · UN documents ≈ 39 401). Forms: incident, incidents.

- It's a trifling **incident**.
  C'est un **incident** mineur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and autuno · checked, community translation · [\#42665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42665) [\#12341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12341))

- A singular **incident** supervened.
  Il survint un **incident** singulier.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20034)

- The day passed without **incident**.
  La journée s’est déroulée sans **incident**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 644367)

- accident and **incident** reporting;
  comptes rendus d'accidents et d'**incidents**;
  ([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 1076410)

- **Incident** flux in initial reading
  non Flux **incident** mesuré initialement
  ([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 21063171)

## More sentences

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

- Tom's behavior has changed after that **incident**.
  Le comportement de Tom a changé après cette affaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ergulis and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11575438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11575438) [\#13959041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959041))

- He described the **incident** in detail.
  Il donna une description détaillée de l'accident.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#683958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/683958) [\#135166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135166))

- I haven't been back here since the **incident**.
  Je ne suis pas revenu ici depuis l'accident.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#953485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953485) [\#1372818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1372818))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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