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# commission — French to English

How French *commission* 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: commission (1 603 288), commissione (41), commissions (69 847). By style: everyday 19 · literary 2 · parliamentary 214 889 · legal and administrative 434 216 · UN documents 1 024 050.

## commission

Used about 1 034 975 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 87 299 · legal and administrative ≈ 291 910 · UN documents ≈ 655 751). Forms: commission, commissione, commissions. Meaning: [commission in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/commission/).

- Quelle est la **commission** ?
  How much is the **commission**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shiboy and CM · checked, community translation · [\#266029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266029) [\#338107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/338107))

- --Mais, révérende mère, si l'agent de la **commission** de salubrité....
  “But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary **commission**—”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11584)

- Quelle est la réponse de la **Commission**?
  What is the response from the **Commission**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 504949)

- Membre de la **Commission**
  Member of the **Commission**
  ([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 1569394)

- Sous-**Commission** de la lutte contre
  Sub-**Commission** on Prevention of
  ([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 1198496)

## committee

Used about 517 518 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 120 875 · legal and administrative ≈ 91 222 · UN documents ≈ 305 418). Forms: committee, committees. Meaning: [committee in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/committee/).

- Tom suggéra un autre projet à la **commission**.
  Tom suggested another plan to the **committee**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#37016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37016) [\#332040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/332040))

- Composition des **commissions**: voir procès-verbal
  Composition of **committees**: see Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1297440)

- Article 46 Avis des **commissions**
  Rule 46 Opinions of **committees**
  ([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 623243)

- Rapport de la Première **Commission**
  Report of the First **Committee**
  ([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 728051)

- Son influence au sein de la **commission** n'a cessé de s'affaiblir.
  His influence in the **committee** became weaker and weaker.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#28277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28277) [\#9843503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9843503))

## report

Used about 4 477 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 477). Meaning: [report in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/report/).

- Les précédentes **Commissions** sont dès lors en partie responsables de cette situation, comme l'indique clairement le rapport.
  Most, but not all, of the fault lies with previous Commissions, as the **report** clearly establishes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1682215)

- Je voudrais par conséquent poser une première question à M. Barrot, vice-président de la **Commission**.
  In particular, I should like to refer to the drafting of the **report** on the proposal for a directive on the development of the Community’s railways.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 719875)

## More sentences

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

- Il envoya le garçon faire une **commission**.
  He has sent the boy on an errand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#291030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291030) [\#131057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131057))

- J'ai des **commissions** à faire.
  I have errands to run.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1553471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1553471) [\#1803668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1803668))

- J'ai quelques **commissions** à faire.
  I have some errands to run.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3686659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3686659) [\#3690677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3690677))

## Grammar

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