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# approbation — French to English

How French *approbation* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: approbation (68 059), approbations (888). By style: everyday 26 · literary 1 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 3 734 · legal and administrative 16 560 · UN documents 48 621.

## approval

Used about 54 653 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 2 340 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 817 · UN documents ≈ 37 479). Forms: approval, approvals. Meaning: [approval in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/approval/).

- Il veut son **approbation**.
  He wants his **approval**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2588704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2588704) [\#4702224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4702224))

- **Approbation** du procès-verbal
  **Approval** of the minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1026225)

- Date d'expiration de l'**approbation**
  Expiry date of **approval**
  ([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 3720615)

- C. Licences et **approbations**
  C. Licences and **approvals**
  ([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 2661044)

- Tom veut l'**approbation** de Mary.
  Tom wants Mary's **approval**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2644297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2644297) [\#5372024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5372024))

## More sentences

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

- L'architecte a obtenu l'**approbation** du maire pour un projet de logements.
  The architect secured the mayor's approbation for a new housing project.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by traeton and traeton · checked, community translation · [\#9772504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9772504) [\#9772519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9772519))

- Le parti d'opposition a affirmé que l'**approbation** du projet de loi par un vote tardif était un stratagème politique.
  The opposition party claimed that approving the bill by a vote late at night was a political ploy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4351030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4351030) [\#4351036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4351036))

- Le conseil d'administration a donné son **approbation** au nouveau plan stratégique du PDG.
  The board of directors gave their approbation to the CEO's new strategic plan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anxxos and Anxxos · checked, community translation · [\#11741908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11741908) [\#11741909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11741909))

## 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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