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# opposition — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: opposition (29 847), oppositions (143). By style: everyday 22 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 009 · legal and administrative 2 625 · UN documents 22 330.

## opposition

Used about 25 979 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 313 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 570 · UN documents ≈ 19 074). Forms: opposition, oppositions.

- The **opposition** was divided.
  L'**opposition** était divisée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#806959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/806959) [\#11191210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11191210))

- Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie was a whole church of the **opposition**.
  Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie était toute une église d'**opposition**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2638)

- Is there any **opposition**?
  - Y a-t-il une quelconque **opposition**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735743)

- Procedural rules for **oppositions**
  Règles procédurales applicables aux **oppositions**
  ([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 3340219)

- Validity of **oppositions**
  La validité des **oppositions**
  ([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 20159432)

## More sentences

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

- Our team beat the **opposition** 5-4.
  Notre équipe a battu l'adversaire par 5 à 4.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Apex · checked, community translation · [\#11473118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11473118) [\#8016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8016))

- Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and **oppositions** of what is falsely called knowledge,
  O Timothée, garde le dépôt, en évitant les discours vains et profanes,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 6:20)

- "Oh, nothing at all," I said, seeing that I was going in **opposition** to immovable obstinacy.
  —Rien,» dis-je d'un ton sec, en voyant que je me heurte à un entêtement absolu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3080)

## 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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