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# orally — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: orally (19 411). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 117 · legal and administrative 390 · UN documents 18 903.

## oralement

Used about 15 635 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 80 · legal and administrative ≈ 195 · UN documents ≈ 15 359).

- And of course, a speaker usually communicates in two ways, **orally** as well as through gestures.
  Et bien sûr, un orateur communique habituellement de deux manières : **oralement** aussi bien qu'à travers ses gestes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and dafp · checked, community translation · [\#42952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42952) [\#12310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12310))

- Make it **orally**, then.
  Faites-la **oralement** donc.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1178828)

- Warnings may be given **orally** or by the firing of warning shots.
  Ces avertissements peuvent être donnés **oralement** ou par des tirs de sommation.
  ([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 5023647)

- 63. Paragraph 16, as **orally** amended, was adopted.
  63. Le paragraphe 16, tel qu &apos; il a été modifié **oralement**, est adopté.
  ([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 2758699)

- You have questioned the Commissioners in writing and **orally**.
  Vous avez interrogé les commissaires, par écrit et **oralement**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2007744)

## révisé

Used about 394 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 394).

- Draft resolution A/C.2/50/L.67, as **orally** amended, was adopted.
  52. Le projet de résolution A/C.2/50/L.67, tel qu &apos; il a été **révisé**, est adopté.
  ([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 2599213)

## tel

Used about 2 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2).

- Paragraph 43 **orally** amended is much the same in terms of content as my own Amendment No 13.
  Le point 43 **tel** que modifié par l'amendement oral est à peu de choses près de la même teneur que l'amendement 13 que j'ai proposé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 313081)

## More sentences

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

- You are aware that questions in Part III are not replied to **orally** but in writing.
  Vous savez que les questions de la troisième partie ne reçoivent pas une réponse orale, mais écrite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 589863)

- I also voted for amendment 8, **orally** amended by our colleague Gacek.
  J'ai également proposé pour l'amendement oral n° 8 déposé par notre collègue Gacek.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1087836)

- You are aware that the custom is for the third part not to be replied to **orally** and, in fact, the Commission does not bring replies.
  Vous savez que la coutume veut que la troisième partie ne reçoive pas de réponse orale et, en fait, la Commission n’apporte pas de réponses.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 523450)

## 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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