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# option — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: option (38 538), options (55 109). By style: everyday 125 · parliamentary 5 083 · legal and administrative 8 129 · UN documents 80 310.

## option

Used about 49 741 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · parliamentary ≈ 3 071 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 589 · UN documents ≈ 40 992). Forms: option, options.

- Peace is an **option**.
  La paix est une **option**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13469155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13469155) [\#13480064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13480064))

- There is no other **option**.
  Il n'y a pas d'autre **option**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1111120)

- time value of **options**;
  la valeur temps des **options**;
  ([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 4366098)

- As per **Option** a.
  As per **Option** a.
  ([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 19334083)

- Those are your **options**.
  Ce sont vos **options**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2645972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2645972) [\#5494577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5494577))

## possibilité

Used about 5 268 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 318 · legal and administrative ≈ 762 · UN documents ≈ 4 183).

- It's an **option**.
  C'est une **possibilité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2249054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249054) [\#1551160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1551160))

- How does the Council view that **option**, and what action has it thought of taking in this matter?
  Quelle est la position du Conseil vis-à-vis de cette **possibilité** et comment compte-t-il agir à ce sujet?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1653489)

- **Option** allowing to require compulsory participation of non-life insurance undertakings in host Member State guarantee schemes
  **Possibilité** d'imposer aux entreprises d'assurance non-vie l'obligation de participer à des régimes de garantie dans l'État membre d'accueil
  ([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 3766058)

- Most female diplomats who had children chose the second **option**.
  La plupart des mères diplomates optent pour la seconde **possibilité**.
  ([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 16988041)

- I don't have the **option**.
  Je n'en ai pas la **possibilité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2276053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276053) [\#2422008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2422008))

## More sentences

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

- That was never an **option**.
  Il n'en a jamais été question.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#3725732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3725732) [\#5655234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5655234))

- Layla saw no other **option**.
  Layla ne voyait pas d'autre solution.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#6106932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6106932) [\#11784703](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11784703))

- I don't have any other **option**.
  Je n'ai pas d'autre choix.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#2361384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2361384) [\#10298740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10298740))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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