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# occasion — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: occasion (28 888), occasions (18 621). By style: everyday 50 · literary 33 · biblical 21 · parliamentary 5 637 · legal and administrative 2 515 · UN documents 39 253.

## occasion

Used about 21 862 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 173 · legal and administrative ≈ 419 · UN documents ≈ 19 218). Forms: occasion, occasions.

- This is a special **occasion**.
  Il s'agit d'une **occasion** particulière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#241984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241984) [\#4912744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4912744))

- His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and by the government as an **occasion**.
  Sa mort, prévue, était redoutée du peuple comme une perte et du gouvernement comme une **occasion**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22987)

- Blessed is he who finds no **occasion** for stumbling in me.”
  Heureux celui pour qui je ne serai pas une **occasion** de chute!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:6)

- I have been here on **occasions**.
  Je suis venu ici à de **occasions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 655554)

- Was contacted on a few **occasions**
  A été contacté à de rares **occasions**
  ([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 4450123)

## reprises

Used about 9 907 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 174 · legal and administrative ≈ 550 · UN documents ≈ 8 178).

- He has been warned on several **occasions**.
  On l'a averti à plusieurs **reprises**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#2404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2404) [\#4281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4281))

- That has happened on a couple of **occasions**.
  C'est arrivé à deux **reprises**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 286510)

- \[on two **occasions** at least 7 days apart;\]
  \[à deux **reprises** à un intervalle minimal de 7 jours;\]
  ([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 3465054)

- He has himself been placed under house—arrest on several **occasions**.
  Il fut lui—même assigné à plusieurs **reprises** à résidence.
  ([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 4018732)

- That happened on several **occasions**.
  Cela s'est produit à plusieurs **reprises**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4937830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4937830) [\#12878542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12878542))

## plusieurs

Used about 236 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 235).

- The Dutch army has already proven its effectiveness on multiple **occasions**.
  L'armée néerlandaise a déjà prouvé **plusieurs** fois son bon fonctionnement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and nbrr · checked, community translation · [\#13714207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13714207) [\#5149894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5149894))

- I have been there and talked to the country's leader on several **occasions**.
  J'y suis allé et j'ai parlé **plusieurs** fois au dirigeant de ce pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 861365)

- The policy on training has already been addressed on a number of **occasions**.
  La politique de la formation a déjà été **plusieurs** fois évoquée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 156847)

- In April, we had a few **occasions** where we discussed the Republic of Moldova in the European Parliament.
  En avril, nous avons évoqué la République de Moldavie **plusieurs** fois au sein du Parlement européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1295961)

- Moreover, there is no ambiguity over the definition of spouse in terms of Community law, as the Court of Justice has confirmed on a number of **occasions**.
  La définition du conjoint ne présente du reste aucun doute du point de vue du droit communautaire et la Cour de justice l'a répété **plusieurs** fois.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 418724)

## 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 a pithy remark for every **occasion**.
  Il a une remarque lapidaire pour chaque circonstance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#566357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566357) [\#567441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567441))

- It's OK to leave the baby to cry on **occasion**.
  C'est bien de laisser le bébé pleurer de temps en temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#329609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/329609) [\#236645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/236645))

- He reads detective stories on **occasion**.
  De temps en temps, il lit des romans policiers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and wilouf · checked, community translation · [\#292001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292001) [\#180492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180492))

## 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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