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# actions — French to English

How French *actions* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: actions (125 401). By style: everyday 77 · literary 5 · biblical 203 · parliamentary 13 237 · legal and administrative 30 573 · UN documents 81 306.

## actions

Used about 56 979 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 8 825 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 923 · UN documents ≈ 32 184). Forms: action, actions.

- Ses **actions** me troublent.
  Her **actions** disturb me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3257949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3257949) [\#3257946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3257946))

- Il faisait un tas d'**actions** machinales pleines d'allégresse, il montait et descendait les escaliers sans savoir pourquoi.
  He executed a multitude of mechanical **actions** full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without knowing why.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28877)

- Nous ne sommes pas isolés dans nos **actions**.
  We are not alone in taking **action**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 584613)

- **Actions** imputables à l’autorité publique
  **Actions** imputable to the public authority
  ([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 2019804)

- 2. Les **actions** de l &apos; État mexicain
  2. **Action** by the Mexican Government
  ([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 13360810)

## shares

Used about 6 650 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 276 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 369).

- Sami ne peut pas vendre ses **actions**.
  Sami can't sell his **shares**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6387495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6387495) [\#6387654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6387654))

- Le partage des bénéfices peut prendre des formes multiples: un partage financier des bénéfices, une démocratie financière ou l'octroi d'**actions** aux travailleurs.
  Profit sharing can appear in an infinite number of variations. Financial profit sharing, financial democracy or employee **shares**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1800226)

- 3 **Actions** et autres participations
  3 **Shares** and other equity
  ([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 1195422)

- J’ai reçu un bon de souscription pour de nouvelles **actions**.
  I received a subscription form for new **shares**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406270) [\#13406269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406269))

- Ces **actions** doivent en outre satisfaire aux conditions suivantes:
  In addition, such **shares** must comply with the following conditions:
  ([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 1788381)

## More sentences

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

- Il a investi beaucoup d'argent en **actions**.
  He invested a lot of money in stocks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and CK · checked, community translation · [\#301273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/301273) [\#132901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132901))

- Je parle de vos **actions**.
  I'm talking about your stocks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9069195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9069195) [\#2792362](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2792362))

- Il a investi cinq cent mille yens dans des **actions**.
  He invested five hundred thousand yen in stocks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#6014702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6014702) [\#8486443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8486443))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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