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# theme — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: theme (40 590), themes (19 840). By style: everyday 20 · parliamentary 1 192 · legal and administrative 838 · UN documents 58 380.

## thème

Used about 52 628 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 757 · legal and administrative ≈ 777 · UN documents ≈ 51 083). Forms: thème, thèmes.

- What is the main **theme**?
  Quel est le **thème** principal ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11614028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11614028) [\#8736994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8736994))

- I would like to stick to three **themes**.
  Je voudrais aborder trois **thèmes**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 535856)

- The **themes** for the 2014 wave are:
  Les **thèmes** de la vague de 2014 sont les suivants:
  ([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 2836815)

- \[**Theme**(s) to be selected\]
  \[**Thème**(s) à déterminer\]
  ([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 18943446)

- What's the **theme** of the novel?
  Quel est le **thème** du roman ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3071388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3071388) [\#9012831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9012831))

## suivants

Used about 608 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 608).

- Coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies and other bodies of the United Nations system related to the following **themes**:
  Coordination des politiques et activités des institutions spécialisées et autres organismes des Nations Unies dans les domaines **suivants** :
  ([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 5030084)

## More sentences

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

- Does this app have a dark **theme**?
  Y a-t-il un mode sombre sur cette application ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12041399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12041399) [\#13660784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13660784))

- What's your favorite TV show **theme** song?
  Quelle est ton générique de série TV préféré ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#906923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/906923) [\#9012840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9012840))

- Does this app have a dark **theme**?
  Cette appli propose un mode sombre ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12041399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12041399) [\#13660773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13660773))

## 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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