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# défis — French to English

How French *défis* 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: défis (61 008). By style: everyday 26 · parliamentary 6 777 · legal and administrative 1 831 · UN documents 52 374.

## challenges

Used about 59 736 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 6 636 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 793 · UN documents ≈ 51 283).

- Les **défis** sont énormes.
  The **challenges** are enormous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4496368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496368) [\#6324076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6324076))

- Ensuite, nous avons les grands **défis**.
  Next, we have the major **challenges**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1564589)

- des missions et des **défis** futurs d'Europol.
  Europol's future tasks and **challenges**.
  ([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 3986500)

- IX. Les **défis** qui subsistent et la voie à suivre
  IX. **Challenges** and the way forward
  ([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 26457248)

- Des **défis** nous attendent.
  There are **challenges** ahead.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5737851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5737851) [\#10499064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10499064))

## change

Used about 141 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 141). Meaning: [change in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/change/).

- Après bien des années de conflit, l'Angola est à l'aube de grands changements et de grands **défis**.
  These are times of great **change** and challenge for Angola after many years of conflict.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409348)

## More sentences

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

- J'adore les **défis**.
  I love a challenge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1887547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1887547) [\#4626895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4626895))

- J'aime me lancer des **défis**.
  I love challenging myself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4496371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496371) [\#6859737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6859737))

- L'un des **défis** que doit relever le siège de l'EIT consiste à attirer et retenir des professionnels de talent.
  Attraction and retention of talented professionals is a challenge for the EIT headquarters.
  ([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 2836890)

## 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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