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# question — English to French

How English *question* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: question (257 714), questions (168 348). By style: everyday 1 695 · literary 101 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 54 689 · legal and administrative 22 570 · UN documents 346 980.

## question

Used about 371 892 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 642 · literary ≈ 81 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 46 714 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 222 · UN documents ≈ 307 222). Forms: question, questions.

- May I ask a **question**?
  Puis-je poser une **question** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and SUZIE · checked, community translation · [\#1594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594) [\#3411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3411))

- That was the **question**.
  Là était la **question**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25961)

- They didn’t dare to ask him any more **questions**.
  Et ils n’osaient plus lui faire aucune **question**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:40)

- **Question** No 5 by (H-0524/01):
  **Question** nº 5 de (H-0524/01) :
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 216181)

- Go to the next **questions**.
  Veuillez passer aux **questions** suivantes.
  ([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 1505796)

## More sentences

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

- Didn't anyone **question** you?
  Personne ne vous a-t-il questionné ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2092515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2092515) [\#2099658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2099658))

- Activist groups for the environment and food safety **question** the product's safety.
  Les groupes d'activistes pour l'environnement et la sécurité alimentaire mettent en doute la sécurité du produit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1141307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141307) [\#1141368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141368))

- It's time to resolve this **question** once and for all.
  Il est temps de résoudre ce problème une fois pour toutes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2796058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2796058) [\#8626381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8626381))

## 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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