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# orientation — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: orientation (20 909), orientations (1 986). By style: literary 1 · parliamentary 1 120 · legal and administrative 1 156 · UN documents 20 618.

## orientations

Used about 20 450 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 992 · legal and administrative ≈ 987 · UN documents ≈ 18 470). Forms: orientation, orientations.

- His **orientation** had changed.
  Son **orientation** était changée.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13638)

- **Orientations** are not enough and actions are not enough.
  Définir des **orientations** et engager des actions, cela ne suffit pas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 733754)

- **Orientations** for the future
  **Orientations** pour l'avenir
  ([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 5606605)

- III. **Orientation** of the Programme
  III. **Orientation** du Programme
  ([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 21924033)

- We know that the technological **orientations** are not neutral.
  Nous savons que les **orientations** technologiques ne sont pas neutres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1795359)

## sexuelle

Used about 215 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 215).

- It also asked further details on how the equal treatment law will apply to discrimination on the grounds of sexual **orientation** and how this will be implemented.
  Il a également demandé des précisions sur la manière dont la loi sur l &apos; égalité de traitement s &apos; appliquerait à la discrimination fondée sur la préférence **sexuelle**.
  ([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 18495488)

## More sentences

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

- The Council set that **orientation** at Feira, with the Charter for Small Enterprises.
  C'est le Conseil qui a donné ce cap à Feira, via la Charte des petites entreprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112256)

- Requesting practical **orientation** on the basis of social dialogue to prevent the consequences of sporadic or low intensity exposure.
  Réclamer des directives pratiques basées sur la concertation sociale pour la définition des expositions sporadiques et des expositions de faible intensité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 398613)

- Project Europe shed its economic and technical **orientation** a long time ago.
  La construction européenne a longtemps reposé sur les aspects économiques et techniques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 224625)

## 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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