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# élections — French to English

How French *élections* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: élections (89 903). By style: everyday 64 · parliamentary 9 428 · legal and administrative 1 311 · UN documents 79 100.

## elections

Used about 85 755 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · parliamentary ≈ 8 642 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 256 · UN documents ≈ 75 804). Forms: election, elections.

- J'ai perdu les **élections**.
  I lost the **election**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6033642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6033642) [\#9749053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9749053))

- Quelques mois seulement nous séparent des **élections** européennes.
  We are only a few months away from the European **elections**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1217642)

- La proposition a expiré en raison des **élections** fédérales de 2014.
  The proposal expired due to the 2014 Federal **elections**.
  ([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 3886640)

- Appui logistique attendu de la MONUC pour les **élections**
  MONUC logistic support for **elections**
  ([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 14182921)

- Tom a gagné les **élections**.
  Tom won the **election**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2547518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547518) [\#8625157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8625157))

## parliamentary

Used about 1 675 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 1 648). Meaning: [parliamentary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parliamentary/).

- PDG de Zimbabwe Defence Industries et candidat du parti ZANU-PF aux **élections** législatives
  MD/CEO Zimbabwe Defence Industries and ZANU-PF **parliamentary** candidate
  ([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 1572909)

- Le système de quotas a été utilisé pour la première fois en Pologne lors des **élections** législatives de 2011.
  The quota system has been first used in Poland in **parliamentary** election 2011.
  ([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 29447555)

## presidential

Used about 196 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 196). Meaning: [presidential in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/presidential/).

- Il faut condamner les arrestations et les détentions répétées de candidats aux **élections** présidentielles ainsi que les violence perpétrées contre les manifestants.
  The arrest and continued detention of **Presidential** candidates as well as the violence shown to protesters must be condemned.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1480892)

## More sentences

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

- Il se présente aux **élections** municipales.
  He's running for city council.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8400886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8400886) [\#12037862](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12037862))

- Leur incapacité à satisfaire la volonté du peuple a entraîné leur défaite aux **élections**.
  Their inability to satisfy the desires of the populace led to their electoral defeat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vico\_14 and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6110500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6110500) [\#6111653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6111653))

- Tous les Tibétains qui ont plus de 25 ans, ont le droit de faire acte de candidature pour les **élections** au parlement des tibétains en exil.
  All Tibetans over 25 years of age, have the right to run for office for the Parliament of exiled Tibetans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1152250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152250) [\#523542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/523542))

## Grammar

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