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# proposal — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: proposal (200 759), proposals (154 225). By style: everyday 158 · literary 2 · parliamentary 69 155 · legal and administrative 20 608 · UN documents 265 061.

## proposition

Used about 310 844 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 147 · parliamentary ≈ 64 112 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 179 · UN documents ≈ 226 406). Forms: proposition, propositions.

- I support your **proposal**.
  Je soutiens votre **proposition**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7764643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7764643) [\#8418512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8418512))

- Will he abandon the **proposal**?
  Abandonne-t-il la **proposition** ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 383543)

- Having regard to the Commission **proposal** \[1\],
  vu la **proposition** de la Commission \[1\],
  ([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 425349)

- II. Consideration of **proposals**
  II. Examen de **propositions**
  ([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 16400117)

- She turned down my **proposal**.
  Elle refusa ma **proposition**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#314355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314355) [\#1030994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1030994))

## règlement

Used about 2 761 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 761).

- These reports identified the basic causes of the conflict in an impartial manner and outlined non-partisan **proposals** for solutions to it.
  Dans ces rapports, les sous-comités ont dégagé sans parti pris les causes profondes du conflit et ont proposé des solutions impartiales pour son **règlement**.
  ([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 723292)

## More sentences

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

- They will accept your **proposal**.
  Ils vont accepter votre offre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#7051170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7051170) [\#4075534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4075534))

- To put it briefly, she turned down his **proposal**.
  Pour faire court, elle a refusé sa demande en mariage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#266043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266043) [\#820651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/820651))

- Marriage **proposals** flooded in.
  Les demandes en mariage affluèrent en masse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#238712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238712) [\#1141451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141451))

## 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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