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# consensus — French to English

How French *consensus* 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: consensus (72 964). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 4 827 · legal and administrative 931 · UN documents 67 199.

## consensus

Used about 68 082 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 4 224 · legal and administrative ≈ 853 · UN documents ≈ 62 999). Meaning: [consensus in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/consensus/).

- Trouvez donc un **consensus** !
  So find a **consensus**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jio15 and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12243762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12243762) [\#2531951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2531951))

- Un **consensus** plus large s’impose.
  A greater **consensus** is needed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 689976)

- Le comité mixte fonctionne par **consensus**.
  The Joint Committee shall operate by **consensus**.
  ([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 218023)

- 73. Ce projet de décision a été adopté par **consensus**.
  73. The draft decision was adopted by **consensus**.
  ([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 45076)

- Pouvons-nous parvenir à un **consensus** sur cette question ?
  Can we reach a **consensus** on this issue?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#247972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/247972) [\#9666012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9666012))

## draft

Used about 1 400 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 400). Meaning: [draft in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/draft/).

- 5. Le PRÉSIDENT dit que, en l &apos; absence d &apos; objections, il considérera que la Commission souhaite adopter le projet de résolution E/CN.4/2000/L.14 par **consensus**.
  5. The CHAIRMAN said that, if he heard no objection, he would take it that the Commission wished to adopt **draft** resolution E/CN.4/2000/L.14 without a vote.
  ([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 7298397)

## More sentences

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

- Le futur ne sera pas construit par la force, ni par le désir de conquête, mais à travers l’application patiente de la méthode démocratique, l’esprit de **consensus** constructif et le respect de la liberté.
  The future will not be built through force, nor the desire to conquer, but by the patient application of the democratic method, the constructive spirit of agreement, and by respect for freedom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13064620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13064620) [\#13064571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13064571))

- . - Monsieur le Président, comme le montre le débat d’aujourd’hui, le rapport recueille un vaste **consensus**.
  . Mr President, as today’s debate has shown, there is broad support for the rapporteur’s report.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 837160)

- Celle-ci offre la garantie de normes légales minimales et recueille un large **consensus** auprès des 180 États signataires.
  It forms the guarantee for minimum legal standards. It has been widely accepted.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1665881)

## Grammar

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