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# construction — French to English

How French *construction* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: construction (96 740), constructions (3 511). By style: everyday 71 · literary 4 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 6 435 · legal and administrative 15 114 · UN documents 78 614.

## construction

Used about 50 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 45 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 078 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 400 · UN documents ≈ 40 945). Forms: construction, constructions. Meaning: [construction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/construction/).

- Comment va la **construction** ?
  How is the **construction** going?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2951897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2951897) [\#7809570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7809570))

- Nous le répétons, ces **constructions** hybrides ne sont pas les moins intéressantes pour l'artiste, pour l'antiquaire, pour l'historien.
  We repeat it, these hybrid **constructions** are not the least interesting for the artist, for the antiquarian, for the historian.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1752)

- La reconstruction ne vise pas seulement les **constructions**.
  Rebuilding is not just about **construction**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001957)

- Lieu de **construction**: 愦灭※
  Place of **construction**: 愦灭※
  ([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 332881)

- Phase de **construction** et aménagement intérieur
  **Construction** phase and interior fit-out
  ([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 28691556)

## buildings

Used about 20 116 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 413 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 566 · UN documents ≈ 13 102). Forms: building, buildings, built.

- Je n'aime pas les **constructions**.
  I don't like **buildings**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and cntrational · checked, community translation · [\#1121367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121367) [\#1121491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121491))

- Il y avait sur notre gauche une vaste **construction** qui ressemblait à un hôpital.
  At our left was a huge **building** that looked like a hospital.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 717)

- Il fit tout autour de la ville des **constructions**, depuis Millo et aux environs; et Joab répara le reste de la ville.
  He **built** the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 11:8)

- Il endommage aussi les **constructions**.
  It also causes damage to **buildings**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1949640)

- Terrains et **constructions** (FP)
  Land and **buildings** (PF)
  ([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 1819640)

## structures

Used about 4 768 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 472 · UN documents ≈ 4 094).

- Il s'agit de **constructions** typiques sans équivalents en Europe.
  These are special **structures**, the like of which is not found anywhere else in Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1245380)

- **Constructions** et parties de **constructions**, en fonte, fer ou acier, n.d.a.
  **Structures** and parts of structures, of iron or steel, n.e.s.
  ([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 4552407)

- En 2012, les autorités israéliennes ont démoli 540 **constructions** palestiniennes dans la zone C de la Cisjordanie, dont 165 maisons.
  28. In 2012 the Israeli authorities demolished 540 Palestinian **structures** in Area C in the West Bank, including 165 homes.
  ([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 27278002)

- C' est à contrecur que j' adhère aux **constructions** proposées, mais les véritables problèmes ne sont pas pour autant résolus.
  I reluctantly endorse the proposed **structures**, but they will not solve the real problems.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 252276)

- Autres **constructions**, profilés et autres éléments pour la **construction**, uniquement ou principalement en tôle
  Other **structures** principally of sheet: other
  ([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 1218825)

## new

Used about 3 501 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 67 · legal and administrative ≈ 157 · UN documents ≈ 3 276). Meaning: [new in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/new/).

- Que coûte la **construction** d'une maison dans ce coin ?
  What does it cost to build a **new** house in this neighborhood?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#954523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954523) [\#958306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/958306))

- Les prix des nouvelles **constructions** navales ont chuté au cours des dernières années et ont atteint leur niveau le plus bas en 1999, en raison de cette politique sud-coréenne.
  The prices of **new** ships have plummeted in recent years, reaching an all-time low in 1999 because of this policy that South Korea is pursuing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 137241)

- i73) Existence de l’obligation d’aménagement d’un nombre minimum de places de stationnement (sur la voie publique et dans des garages souterrains) pour les nouvelles **constructions** (o/n)
  (i73) Existence of minimum parking requirements (for on-street parking and underground garages) for **new** developments (y/n)
  ([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 4786835)

- 20.20 Nouvelles **constructions**, reconstruction, etc.
  20.20 **New** works, reconstruction, etc.
  ([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 8498431)

- Il faut assurer la continuité du tissu urbain en veillant à ce que les **constructions** nouvelles s &apos; intègrent harmonieusement dans la ville.
  It is necessary to have continuity in the urban fabric by having continuity between **new** urban developments and the existing city.
  ([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 10838929)

## More sentences

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

- Article 26 alinéa 2 de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme avec un ajout important, s'il vous plaît écrivez dans les commentaires s'il améliorerait cet article: L'éducation doit viser au plein épanouissement de la personnalité humaine et au renforcement du respect des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales. Elle doit favoriser la compréhension, la tolérance et l'amitié entre toutes les nations et tous les groupes raciaux ou religieux, ainsi que le développement des activités des Nations Unies pour le maintien de la paix, ainsi que le discussion des moyens de protéger une culture de communication avec l’objectivité et l’empathie caractérisée par l’individualité contre le remplacement par l’automatisation ou la systématisation des déclarations qui se référent aux ou dérivent des narrations ou concepts construé des idées qui viennent de un ou peu des donneurs de cette sorte des **constructions** de pensée fabriquée et qui ont donné parce qu'une obéissance subordonnante sous cette sorte des donneurs et une mentalité caractérisée de cette sorte de subordination.
  Article 26 section 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with important additional sentence, please write in the comments whether adding this sentence would improve this article: Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. This promoting shall include discussion of possibilities for protection of a culture of communication with objectivity and empathy characterised by individuality against replacement by automation or systematisation of statements referring to or being derived of narratives or constructs of ideas coming from one or a few ones who give and purport those constructs of fabricated thinking and being given due to subordination and obedience to this kind of givers and a by this subordination characterised mentality.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lojbanist and lojbanist · checked, community translation · [\#14096474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14096474) [\#13385227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13385227))

- David fit rassembler les étrangers qui étaient dans le pays d’Israël, et il chargea des tailleurs de pierres de préparer des pierres de taille pour la **construction** de la maison de Dieu.
  David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 22:2)

- Maintenant, si le roi le trouve bon, que l’on fasse des recherches dans la maison des trésors du roi à Babylone, pour voir s’il y a eu de la part du roi Cyrus un ordre donné pour la **construction** de cette maison de Dieu à Jérusalem. Puis, que le roi nous transmette sa volonté sur cet objet.
  Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was made by Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 5:17)

## Grammar

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