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# affairs — French to English

How French *affairs* 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: affairs (26 245). By style: parliamentary 6 · legal and administrative 109 · UN documents 26 130.

## affairs

Used about 26 228 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 93 · UN documents ≈ 26 130). Meaning: [affairs in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/affairs/).

- Comme l'a déclaré M. Mitchell, du Royal Institute of International **Affairs**, la clé de la sécurité d'approvisionnement réside dans la diversité de cet approvisionnement.
  As Mr Mitchell, from the UK's Royal Institute of International **Affairs** has stated, the key to energy security lies in diversity of supply.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 493719)

- «Ministry of Foreign **Affairs**
  ‘Ministry of Foreign **Affairs**
  ([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 722566)

- Ministry for Foreign **Affairs**
  Ministry for Foreign **Affairs**
  ([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 17572888)

- Malgré le rapport et les questions de l'Institute of International **Affairs**, ainsi que les questions posées par moi-même et d'autres parlementaires dans le passé, la Commission a fait preuve de lenteur en cette matière.
  Despite the report and questions from the Institute of International **Affairs** and questions by myself and other Members in the past, the Commission has been slow to act on this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1749738)

- Minister for Foreign **Affairs**
  Minister for Foreign **Affairs**
  ([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 7251317)

## department

Used about 3 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 2). Meaning: [department in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/department/).

- Le 25 septembre de cette année, la Commission a reçu un appel émanant du Department of Humanitarian **Affairs** (DHA), qui a en charge la coordination de l'aide humanitaire en Iraq, pour un programme d'aide humanitaire se montant à 31, 7 millions d'ECU.
  On 25 September this year, the Commission received an appeal for a humanitarian aid programme totalling ECU 31.7 million from the **Department** of Humanitarian Affairs, which is responsible for coordinating humanitarian aid to Iraq.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663027)

- State Secretariat for Economic **Affairs** (SECO)
  Mining **department** Lilunga House (3rd floor, Wing B) Somhlolo Road PO Box 9, Mbabane H100 Swaziland SWITZERLAND
  ([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 2979937)

## More sentences

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

- Department for Legal **Affairs**
  New Zealand Customs Service PO Box 2218 Wellington New Zealand NORWAY
  ([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 2979929)

- Department for Legal **Affairs**
  Import and Export Authority: New Zealand Customs Service PO Box 2218 Wellington New Zealand NORWAY
  ([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 2963164)

- State Secretariat for Economic **Affairs** (SECO)
  Lilunga House (3rd floor, Wing B) Somhlolo Road PO Box 9, Mbabane H100 Swaziland SWITZERLAND
  ([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 2444954)

## 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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