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# intention — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: intention (42 651), intentions (6 674). By style: everyday 122 · literary 7 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 6 070 · legal and administrative 3 364 · UN documents 39 760.

## intentions

Used about 38 204 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 118 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 5 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 663 · UN documents ≈ 30 234). Forms: intention, intentions.

- It wasn't my **intention**.
  Ce n'était pas mon **intention**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Tcha · checked, community translation · [\#8453183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8453183) [\#3218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3218))

- Her husband had not been obliged to say anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his tacit **intentions**, and obeyed blindly.
  Son mari n'avait eu rien à lui dire; elle subissait la pression vague, mais claire, de ses **intentions** tacites, et obéissait aveuglément.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31246)

- That is the **intention** of this resolution.
  Telle est l'**intention** de cette résolution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 917648)

- ECHA Registry of **Intentions**.
  Registre d'**intentions** de l'ECHA.
  ([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 4004900)

- If a person dies after making a will, however, his or her **intentions** prevail.
  Si le défunt a laissé un testament, ses **intentions** priment.
  ([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 24323283)

## bonnes

Used about 63 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 63).

- I fear that, despite the good **intentions** expressed by the rapporteurs, we are not quite there yet.
  Je crains que malgré les **bonnes** volontés exprimées par les rapporteurs, nous n’en soyons pas tout à fait là.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 799280)

## More sentences

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

- He has no **intention** to interfere with your business.
  Il ne compte pas se mêler de tes affaires.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and RoiOfTheSuisse · checked, community translation · [\#295640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295640) [\#1590251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1590251))

- You have to read between the lines to know the true **intention** of the author.
  Il te faut lire entre les lignes pour connaitre la véritable pensée de l'auteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#244312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244312) [\#1538596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538596))

- No matter what was said or done to him, there was no getting him to speak. He simply had no **intention** of spilling the beans.
  On ne pouvait pas lui tirer les vers du nez quoiqu'on fasse et quoiqu'on lui dise, il ne voulait tout simplement pas cracher le morceau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and LoverofEnglish · checked, community translation · [\#13959171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959171) [\#12799925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12799925))

## 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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