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# choix — French to English

How French *choix* 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: choix (63 328). By style: everyday 491 · literary 5 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 6 922 · legal and administrative 6 554 · UN documents 49 352.

## choice

Used about 36 993 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 409 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 038 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 779 · UN documents ≈ 27 761). Forms: choice, choices. Meaning: [choice in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/choice/).

- Vous aviez le **choix**.
  You had a **choice**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2648591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2648591) [\#6630969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6630969))

- Une foule est un **choix** de laideurs.
  A crowd offers a **choice** of ugliness.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14494)

- La langue du juste est un argent de **choix**; Le cœur des méchants est peu de chose.
  The tongue of the righteous is like **choice** silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 10:20)

- Non, elle n'a pas le **choix**.
  No. She has no **choice**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 923545)

- Libre **choix** du fournisseur
  Free **choice** of supplier
  ([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 4867098)

## selection

Used about 4 667 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 144 · legal and administrative ≈ 410 · UN documents ≈ 4 113). Meaning: [selection in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/selection/).

- Il y a beaucoup d'excellentes candidatures et j'espère que le **choix** sera fondé sur le mérite, et non sur des questions politiques.
  There are many excellent candidates, and I hope the **selection** is based on merit, not politics.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1564557)

- justification du **choix** des doses (y compris résultats de l’essai préliminaire, le cas échéant),
  justification for dose **selection** (including results from pre-screen test, if conducted);
  ([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 2649553)

- 2.2.2 **Choix** et état des pneumatiques
  2.2.2. Tyre **selection** and condition
  ([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 28237435)

- Comme le précise le document d’orientation no 116 (7), les facteurs à prendre en compte dans le **choix** des doses sont notamment les suivants:
  As discussed further in Guidance Document No 116 (7), points to be considered in dose **selection** include:
  ([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 3272506)

- Stade du **choix** d &apos; un site et de la planification
  stage of **selection** of place (location) and stage of planning
  ([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 12108842)

## More sentences

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

- N'y a-t-il pas d'autre **choix** que ce que vous proposez ?
  Is there no alternative to what you propose?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#16982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16982) [\#474209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474209))

- Si j'avais le **choix** entre des jus de fruits, de l'eau minérale glacée et des thés chauds, je serais encore plus heureux.
  If there were fruit juices, iced mineral water and hot teas to choose from, I would be even happier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#1332408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1332408) [\#10781317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781317))

- Ils n'eurent d'autre **choix** que de battre en retraite.
  They had no alternative but to retreat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#307088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307088) [\#551312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/551312))

## 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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