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# activité — French to English

How French *activité* 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: activité (157 775), activitée (2), activitées (7), activités (899 776). By style: everyday 94 · literary 6 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 18 366 · legal and administrative 92 627 · UN documents 946 465.

## activity

Used about 700 853 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 11 287 · legal and administrative ≈ 67 541 · UN documents ≈ 621 963). Forms: activities, activity. Meaning: [activity in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/activity/).

- La ville était pleine d'**activité**.
  The town was full of **activity**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CM · checked, community translation · [\#48964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/48964) [\#337007](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/337007))

- Une étincelle suffisait maintenant pour mettre ce formidable engin en **activité**.
  A spark would now develop the whole of our preparations into **activity**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3651)

- Notre **activité** législative est un processus continu.
  Our legislative **activity** is a continuous process.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 798898)

- Principale **activité** de l'annexe I \[3\]
  Main Annex I **activity** \[3\]
  ([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 557109)

- 8. Taux d &apos; **activité** : femmes
  8. Rate of **activity** (women)
  ([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 332201)

## work

Used about 100 885 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 765 · legal and administrative ≈ 965 · UN documents ≈ 99 153). Meaning: [work in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/work/).

- Mais celui qui aura plongé les regards dans la loi parfaite, la loi de la liberté, et qui aura persévéré, n’étant pas un auditeur oublieux, mais se mettant à l’œuvre, celui-là sera heureux dans son **activité**.
  But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the **work**, this man will be blessed in what he does.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 1:25)

- Je suis d'accord avec ce qui a été dit au sujet de la culture et de l'**activité** créatrice.
  I very much support what has been said about culture and creative **work**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1691595)

- Travail le dimanche dans l’**activité** principale
  Sunday **work** in main job
  ([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 5152612)

- Domaine d &apos; **activité** 4: Technologie, gestion et formation
  - **Work** area 4: Technology, Management and Training
  ([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 10670470)

- Bien sûr, le renforcement du rôle du Parlement implique un accroissement de ses obligations, de ses responsabilités et de son **activité**.
  Of course, strengthening Parliament's role means that it has more obligations, more responsibility and more **work**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1385650)

## business

Used about 30 379 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 765 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 578 · UN documents ≈ 18 028). Meaning: [business in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/business/).

- Mon **activité** repart à nouveau.
  My **business** is picking up again.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#250388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250388) [\#12022414](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12022414))

- Il importe également que les agriculteurs puissent prendre eux-mêmes des décisions concernant leurs **activités**.
  We also need farmers to make **business** decisions for themselves.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1161453)

- Il convient de rappeler que cette **activité** présente une forte intensité de savoir-faire.
  It is recalled that this **business** is know-how intensive.
  ([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 1957222)

- Il adopte ces conclusions et les applique aux réclamations de la onzième tranche concernant une baisse de l &apos; **activité** et des transactions commerciales.
  The Panel adopts these findings and applies them to the claims for decline in **business** and course of dealing losses in this instalment.
  ([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 9667337)

- Son **activité** commerciale à New York fut un grand succès.
  His **business** in New York was a great success.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#35935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35935) [\#1573097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1573097))

## More sentences

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

- L'**activité** et l'affairement de la vie citadine me manquent.
  I miss the hustle and bustle of city life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#727180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/727180) [\#801034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801034))

- Dans vingt-cinq ans, il y aura un retraité pour deux personnes en **activité**.
  Twenty-five years from now there will be one retired person for each two working.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ronin33 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#241598](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241598) [\#935178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/935178))

- Noël est une période de forte **activité** pour les commerçants.
  Christmas is a busy time for retailers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5679138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5679138) [\#9526331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9526331))

## 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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