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# concept — French to English

How French *concept* 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: concept (29 201), concepte (2), concepts (13 327). By style: everyday 37 · parliamentary 4 807 · legal and administrative 2 146 · UN documents 35 540.

## concept

Used about 37 585 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 3 806 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 833 · UN documents ≈ 31 913). Forms: concept, concepts. Meaning: [concept in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/concept/).

- Quel **concept** ridicule !
  What a ridiculous **concept**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4496811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496811) [\#6635958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6635958))

- La clarté des **concepts** est le début du succès.
  Success starts with clear **concepts**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 114633)

- Nom de la liste de codes ou du **concept**
  Name of code list or **concept**
  ([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 1518296)

- 1. Purpose and key **concepts**
  1. Purpose and key **concepts**
  ([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 25759112)

- Comprends-tu le **concept** ?
  Do you understand the **concept**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3825610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3825610) [\#6930095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6930095))

## definitions

Used about 22 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 22).

- L'article 242, paragraphes 10 et 11 du CRR définit les **concepts** de «titrisation traditionnelle» et de «titrisation synthétique».
  The **definitions** of 'traditional securitisation' and 'synthetic securitisation' is provided in Article 242(10) and (11) of CRR.
  ([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 3343672)

## More sentences

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

- Le **concept** de liberté est-il compatible avec le déterminisme ?
  Is the idea of free will compatible with determinism?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#14018942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14018942) [\#12701417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12701417))

- Si un jour les nombreuses langues européennes viennent à disparaître, ce jour-là l’Europe – en tant que **concept** et projet – cessera d’exister.
  The day when Europe ceases to speak its many languages is the day that Europe – as an idea, as a project – ceases to exist.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al\_ex\_an\_der and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#3457429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3457429) [\#3457447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3457447))

- La démocratie est un **concept** qui remonte aux anciens grecs.
  Democracy is an idea that goes back to the ancient Greeks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#513429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/513429) [\#545815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545815))

## 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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