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# définitions — French to English

How French *définitions* 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: définitions (29 944). By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 713 · legal and administrative 7 641 · UN documents 21 586.

## definitions

Used about 27 766 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 654 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 323 · UN documents ≈ 19 787). Forms: defined, definition, definitions.

- Nous devons apprendre toutes les **définitions** en Physique.
  We must learn all the **definitions** in Physics.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11541897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541897) [\#11541899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541899))

- Je regrette les amendements qui introduisent de soi-disant **définitions**.
  I regret the amendments that introduce so-called **definitions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 198180)

- I. OBJECTIFS ET **DÉFINITIONS**
  I. OBJECTIVE AND **DEFINITIONS**
  ([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 2844161)

- **Définitions** courantes relatives aux VE
  Popular EV **Definitions** NOVC-HEV
  ([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 29842824)

- Surtout, la logique nécessite des **définitions** précises.
  Above all, logic requires precise **definitions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#36899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36899) [\#12948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12948))

## concepts

Used about 450 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 450).

- Parmi les activités importantes, il faut signaler l’amélioration des **définitions** des méthodes et des programmes de collecte des données.
  28. One major set of activities concerns the improvement of statistical **concepts**, methods and data-collection programmes.
  ([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 5712016)

## More sentences

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

- De toutes les **définitions** de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.
  Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#879674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/879674) [\#833222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/833222))

- Nous retrouvons, dans le consensus, les **définitions** de ces principes d'action qui fondent l'action humanitaire de notre institution.
  The consensus defines these principles for action, on which our institution's humanitarian action is based.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993742)

- C'est pourquoi nous voulons ici aussi des **définitions** claires.
  We therefore wish to see clear wording here as well.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1617892)

## Grammar

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