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# mention — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mention (27 539), mentions (3 371). By style: everyday 103 · literary 4 · biblical 15 · parliamentary 8 686 · legal and administrative 1 380 · UN documents 20 722.

## mention

Used about 12 881 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 2 986 · legal and administrative ≈ 791 · UN documents ≈ 9 066). Forms: mention, mentionne, mentionner.

- Mum didn't **mention** it.
  Maman n'en a pas fait **mention**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11903886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11903886) [\#1564129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1564129))

- I thank my God always, making **mention** of you in my prayers,
  Je rends continuellement grâces à mon Dieu, faisant **mention** de toi dans mes prières,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHM 1:4)

- Lastly, I must **mention** the Health Services Directive.
  Pour terminer, je voudrais **mentionner** la directive sur les services de santé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 990705)

- This **mention** may be replaced:
  Cette **mention** peut être remplacée:
  ([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 497899)

- within the framework of Action Plan II that deserve particular **mention** 50
  within the framework of Action Plan II that deserve particular **mention** 53
  ([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 24172889)

## voudrais

Used about 995 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 995).

- I would like to **mention** briefly one other issue.
  Je **voudrais** brièvement soulever une autre question.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1559327)

- I would briefly like to **mention** three points.
  Je **voudrais** attirer brièvement l'attention sur trois aspects importants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1759434)

- I would, however, also like to **mention** the subject of administrative budgets.
  Je **voudrais** aussi aborder le sujet des budgets administratifs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 177033)

- The last point I want to **mention** here is planning policy.
  Le dernier point que je **voudrais** encore évoquer concerne la structure de l' habitat.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 206890)

- Finally, I would like to **mention** the despicable trade of trafficking in human beings.
  Finalement, je **voudrais** également aborder la question de l'insécurité engendrée par les passeurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1894479)

## More sentences

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

- Did I **mention** that I'm crazy?
  Ai-je déjà mentionné que je suis fou ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9733762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9733762) [\#9733791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9733791))

- His wife now had to take care of his grandfather, not to **mention** their two children.
  Sa femme devait maintenant prendre soin de son grand-père, pour ne rien dire de leur deux enfants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Akenaseryan · checked, community translation · [\#286363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286363) [\#130286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130286))

- I forgot to **mention** it to you.
  J'ai oublié de t'en parler.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3907236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3907236) [\#10946428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10946428))

## 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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