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# transportation — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: transportation (33 098), transportations (72). By style: everyday 16 · literary 1 · parliamentary 742 · legal and administrative 2 511 · UN documents 29 900.

## transport

Used about 25 512 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 715 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 447 · UN documents ≈ 22 335). Forms: transport, transports.

- I ride public **transportation**.
  Je prends le **transport** public.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8116749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8116749) [\#11837988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837988))

- At the same time, the flexibility of oil **transportations** must be safeguarded.
  Le bon fonctionnement des **transports** pétroliers doit être préservé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 274501)

- ‘H’ - **Transportation** and storage
  «H» – **Transports** et entreposage
  ([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 4918125)

- to withstand **transportation** and handling;
  De supporter un **transport** et une manutention;
  ([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 26322570)

- I hate public **transportation**.
  Je déteste le **transport** public.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8116750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8116750) [\#11837990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837990))

## More sentences

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

- It's an important **transportation** hub.
  C'est un nœud de circulation important.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7813826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7813826) [\#1056952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1056952))

- “No doubt,” replied the conductor; “but the passengers know that they must provide means of **transportation** for themselves from Kholby to Allahabad.”
  --Sans doute, répondit le conducteur, mais les voyageurs savent bien qu'ils doivent se faire transporter de Kholby jusqu'à Allahabad.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 690)

- This would at least mean 400 kg times 200,000 km less **transportation**.
  On transporterait en effet 400 kilos fois 200 000 kilomètres en moins.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 6895)

## 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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