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# situation — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: situation (423 834), situations (91 724). By style: everyday 461 · literary 26 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 43 628 · legal and administrative 31 461 · UN documents 439 977.

## situation

Used about 432 125 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 461 · literary ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 36 811 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 184 · UN documents ≈ 366 648). Forms: situation, situations.

- The **situation** is improving.
  La **situation** s'améliore.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#4500228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500228) [\#7482594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7482594))

- Such was the **situation**.
  Telle était la **situation**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18529)

- That is the **situation**.
  Telle est la **situation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2044275)

- D. **SITUATION** ON THE UNION MARKET
  D. **SITUATION** SUR LE MARCHÉ DE L'UNION
  ([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 3667817)

- The **situation** in the Middle East
  La **situation** au Moyen-Orient
  ([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 16266078)

## cas

Used about 26 372 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 818 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 639 · UN documents ≈ 22 915).

- This holds particularly true in **situations** like the exhibition.
  C’est particulièrement vrai dans des **cas** tels que celui de cette exposition.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 738910)

- In these **situations** the equipment will have to be discarded after use (49).
  Dans ces **cas** de figure, l’équipement devra être jeté après usage (49).
  ([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 3274894)

- B. Displacement and protection in **situations** of natural disasters
  B. Déplacement et protection en **cas** de catastrophe naturelle
  ([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 27290365)

- **Situations** of loss of income are on the increase and women are getting poorer.
  Les **cas** de perte de revenu sont en hausse et les femmes sont de plus en plus pauvres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1506878)

- This information shall be provided in **situations** where the carrier is different from the declarant.
  Cette information est fournie dans les **cas** où le transporteur est différent du déclarant.
  ([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 3751685)

## More sentences

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

- Happy are the people who are in such a **situation**. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.
  Heureux le peuple pour qui il en est ainsi! Heureux le peuple dont l’Éternel est le Dieu!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 144:15)

- This was my **situation**: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
  La chaleur me dévorait pendant le jour, et le froid pendant la nuit, et le sommeil fuyait de mes yeux.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 31:40)

- The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the **situation** of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”
  Les gens de la ville dirent à Élisée: Voici, le séjour de la ville est bon, comme le voit mon seigneur; mais les eaux sont mauvaises, et le pays est stérile.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 2:19)

## 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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