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# voting — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: voting (36 253), votings (1). By style: everyday 26 · parliamentary 9 442 · legal and administrative 2 544 · UN documents 24 242.

## vote

Used about 18 835 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 5 705 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 226 · UN documents ≈ 10 884). Forms: vote, voter.

- **Voting** is over.
  Le **vote** est terminé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12886295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12886295) [\#12837453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12837453))

- We are now **voting**.
  Nous passons maintenant au **vote**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541186)

- **Voting** of the Management Board
  **Vote** du conseil d'administration
  ([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 1081099)

- **Voting** rights of the President
  Droit de **vote** du Président
  ([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 7651901)

- Tom is **voting**.
  Tom est en train de **voter**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2236910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2236910) [\#5348114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5348114))

## majorité

Used about 3 064 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 590 · UN documents ≈ 2 474).

- I believe that the extension of qualified majority **voting** does not mean that there will not be certain exceptions.
  Je pense aussi que cette extension de la **majorité** qualifiée ne signifie pas qu'il ne puisse y avoir quelques exceptions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1954090)

- The outcome was negative, with the majority of the population **voting** not to allow this.
  Les résultats ont été négatifs: la **majorité** de la population s &apos; est prononcée pour la non-reconnaissance de cette possibilité.
  ([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 27533707)

- In the first pillar, that instrument will be activated by qualified majority **voting** in response to a Commission proposal, and I welcome that.
  Dans le premier pilier, son déclenchement se fera à la **majorité** qualifiée et sur proposition de la Commission. Je m'en réjouis.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1736365)

- Items on the agenda may be amended or deleted by a majority of the States Parties present and **voting**.
  Les questions inscrites à l &apos; ordre du jour peuvent être modifiées ou supprimées par une décision de la Réunion prise à la **majorité** des États parties présents et votants.
  ([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 1318944)

- We are further than ever from generalised qualified majority **voting** in the Council, which would have led to codecision rights for the European Parliament.
  Nous sommes plus que jamais éloignés de la **majorité** qualifiée au Conseil, qui aurait donné des droits de codécision au PE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 136933)

## More sentences

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

- Who are you **voting** for?
  Pour qui votes-tu ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#813833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/813833) [\#747157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/747157))

- Dissatisfied customers are **voting** with their feet.
  Les clients mécontents s'en vont.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by danepo and FabienneDrapeaud · checked, community translation · [\#2305988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2305988) [\#5523936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5523936))

- They elect their representatives in a **voting** booth.
  Ils élisent leurs représentants dans un isoloir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#680794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680794) [\#11677628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11677628))

## 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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