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# recognition — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: recognition (70 978), recognitions (95). By style: everyday 19 · literary 1 · parliamentary 4 816 · legal and administrative 9 059 · UN documents 57 178.

## reconnaissance

Used about 41 851 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 4 155 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 118 · UN documents ≈ 31 567). Forms: reconnaissance, reconnaissances.

- He was eager for **recognition**.
  Il était avide de **reconnaissance**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bitchoftheseus and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#304049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/304049) [\#15513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15513))

- in writing. - Volunteering in the EU requires greater **recognition**.
  par écrit. - Le bénévolat au sein de l'UE nécessite une plus grande **reconnaissance**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1063454)

- the mutual **recognition** of certificates;
  la **reconnaissance** mutuelle des attestations;
  ([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 1190775)

- Issue 6: **Recognition** and enforcement
  Question 6. **Reconnaissance** et exécution
  ([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 13306128)

- **Recognition** inspires growth.
  La **reconnaissance** inspire la croissance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12766708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12766708) [\#13365258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365258))

## More sentences

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

- She gave me a smile of **recognition**.
  Elle m'adressa un sourire indiquant qu'elle me reconnaissait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#249547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249547) [\#1132283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1132283))

- He gave me a smile of **recognition**.
  Il me fit un sourire reconnaissant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#297747](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297747) [\#805526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805526))

- He has become thin beyond all **recognition**.
  Il a tellement maigri qu'on ne le reconnait plus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and RoiOfTheSuisse · checked, community translation · [\#296017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/296017) [\#1587789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1587789))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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