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# plan — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: plan (335 100), plans (129 187). By style: everyday 1 070 · literary 18 · biblical 36 · parliamentary 17 154 · legal and administrative 38 508 · UN documents 407 501.

## plan

Used about 375 826 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 435 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 11 793 · legal and administrative ≈ 32 491 · UN documents ≈ 331 095). Forms: plan, plans.

- We had a **plan**.
  Nous avions un **plan**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2649181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2649181) [\#11071342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11071342))

- Some traces of this geometrical **plan** still exist to-day.
  Quelque chose de ce **plan** géométral subsiste encore aujourd'hui.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1858)

- and the **plans** of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the LORD’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
  Il lui donna le **plan** de tout ce qu’il avait dans l’esprit touchant les parvis de la maison de l’Éternel, et toutes les chambres à l’entour pour les trésors de la maison de Dieu et les trésors du sanctuaire,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 28:12)

- The UN has a peace **plan**.
  Les Nations unies ont un **plan** de paix.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 12776)

- **PLAN** OF REMEDIAL MEASURES
  **PLAN** DE MESURES CORRECTIVES
  ([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 615841)

## œuvre

Used about 8 491 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 8 490).

- Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor **plan**, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
  Tout ce que ta main trouve à faire avec ta force, fais-le; car il n’y a ni **œuvre**, ni pensée, ni science, ni sagesse, dans le séjour des morts, où tu vas.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 9:10)

- The United Kingdom is committed to implementing the changes and **plans** to lay legislation in 2014.
  Le Royaume-Uni est déterminé à mettre en **œuvre** ces modifications et il envisage de promulguer une loi à cet effet en 2014.
  ([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 30130039)

- Government policies are made by the Cabinet, and special subcommittees coordinate and **plan** details of government activities.
  Les politiques publiques sont mises en **œuvre** par le Gouvernement et des souscommissions spéciales coordonnent et planifient les activités des pouvoirs publics.
  ([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 17536302)

## action

Used about 357 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 357).

- In my home country, for example, the action mostly amounts to the preparation of **plans**, and their implementation drags along.
  Dans mon pays, par exemple, l'**action** consiste principalement à préparer des projets dont la mise en œuvre tire en longueur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 995271)

- In the future, in other words next year, the national action **plans** will be assessed on the basis of 19 guidelines, and they will be adjusted and adapted accordingly.
  Demain, c'est-à-dire l'année prochaine, les programmes d'**action** nationaux seront évalués sur la base des 19 lignes directrices, tout en les ajustant, les adaptant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1927027)

## More sentences

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

- I don't **plan** to do that by myself.
  Je ne compte pas faire ça tout seul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and vlecomte · checked, community translation · [\#6086322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6086322) [\#6949351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6949351))

- I don't **plan** on stepping down.
  Je ne compte pas démissionner.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6664992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6664992) [\#11724668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11724668))

- Without your encouragement, I would have given up this **plan**.
  Sans tes encouragements, j'aurais laissé tomber ce projet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1505240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1505240) [\#1510616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1510616))

## 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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