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# mission — English to French

How English *mission* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mission (347 125), missions (130 058). By style: everyday 55 · literary 4 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 3 988 · legal and administrative 10 569 · UN documents 462 565.

## mission

Used about 452 385 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 3 614 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 239 · UN documents ≈ 438 473). Forms: mission, missions.

- I led that **mission**.
  J'ai conduit cette **mission**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2377285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2377285) [\#2384366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2384366))

- This laughter has a **mission**.
  Ce rire a une **mission**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29585)

- Today I can tell you that our **mission** was a failure.
  Je peux vous dire aujourd'hui que notre **mission** a échoué.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 130459)

- **Missions** and **mission** expenses
  **Missions** et frais de mission
  ([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 404485)

- 5. Military experts on **mission**
  5. Experts militaires en **mission**
  ([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 21842240)

## nations

Used about 9 637 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 9 637).

- United Nations **Mission** in Haiti
  Force des **Nations** Unies chargée du maintien de la paix à Chypre
  ([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 13095693)

- United Nations staff **missions** to United Nations Headquarters
  Voyages du personnel des **Nations** Unies au Siège de l &apos; ONU
  ([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 27033528)

## observation

Used about 152 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42 · legal and administrative ≈ 110).

- I am thinking here of visits by parliamentarians to third countries and of activities, such as election observer **missions** and the like, performed by parliamentarians.
  Je pense notamment aux visites de nos Parlementaires dans des pays tiers, aux activités liées à l'**observation** d'élections, etc...
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1851114)

- Guinea intends to request an international election observation **mission** and also undertakes to invite representatives of Guinean civil society to assist in the election observation,
  La Guinée compte demander une **observation** électorale internationale et s’engage également à inviter la société civile guinéenne à participer à l’observation des élections.
  ([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 1699008)

## More sentences

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

- Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and **mission** be?”
  Manoach dit: Maintenant, si ta parole s’accomplit, que faudra-t-il observer à l’égard de l’enfant, et qu’y aura-t-il à faire?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 13:12)

- He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my **mission**.
  Il leur répondit: Allez, et dites à ce renard: Voici, je chasse les démons et je fais des guérisons aujourd’hui et demain, et le troisième jour j’aurai fini.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 13:32)

- Apart from that, Mr Gollnisch, I take the view that our taking over from NATO responsibility for the **mission** in Macedonia is an historic event.
  D'un autre côté, Monsieur Gollnisch, je considère la prise en charge de la responsabilité des opérations de l'OTAN en Macédoine comme un événement historique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 433436)

## 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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