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# structure — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: structure (88 266), structures (48 890). By style: everyday 25 · literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 7 391 · legal and administrative 16 158 · UN documents 113 578.

## structure

Used about 106 494 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 6 467 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 633 · UN documents ≈ 86 367). Forms: structure, structures.

- The brain has a complex **structure**.
  Le cerveau a une **structure** complexe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sicerabibax · checked, community translation · [\#4546515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4546515) [\#4546512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4546512))

- To the schists succeeded gneiss, partially stratified, remarkable for the parallelism and regularity of its lamina, then mica schists, laid in large plates or flakes, revealing their lamellated **structure** by the sparkle of the white shining mica.
  Aux schistes succédèrent les gneiss, d'une **structure** stratiforme, remarquables par la régularité et le parallélisme de leurs feuillets, puis, les micaschistes disposés en grandes lamelles rehaussées à l'oeil par les scintillations du mica blanc.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1898)

- The fleet **structure** is secondary to this.
  La **structure** de la flotte y est subordonnée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 318898)

- **Structure** of the training:
  **Structure** de la formation:
  ([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 2500350)

- Section II. Establishment and **structure**
  Section II. Création et **structure**
  ([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 7344509)

## More sentences

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

- “Surely I will not come into the **structure** of my house, nor go up into my bed;
  Je n’entrerai pas dans la tente où j’habite, Je ne monterai pas sur le lit où je repose,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 132:3)

- If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, its fashion, its exits, its entrances, its **structure**, all its ordinances, all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
  S’ils rougissent de toute leur conduite, fais-leur connaître la forme de cette maison, sa disposition, ses issues et ses entrées, tous ses dessins et toutes ses ordonnances, tous ses dessins et toutes ses lois; mets-en la description sous leurs yeux, afin qu’ils gardent tous ses dessins et toutes ses ordonnances, et qu’ils s’y conforment dans l’exécution.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 43:11)

- The Commission will be open to any ideas on how to **structure** the debate around our proposals on the solid foundations of the Treaty of Lisbon.
  La Commission sera ouverte à toutes les idées sur la manière de construire le débat autour de nos propositions sur les fondations solides du traité de Lisbonne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1438896)

## 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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