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# département — French to English

How French *département* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: département (191 964), départements (30 485). By style: everyday 29 · literary 1 · parliamentary 636 · legal and administrative 3 198 · UN documents 218 585.

## department

Used about 194 138 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 451 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 399 · UN documents ≈ 191 262). Forms: department, departments. Meaning: [department in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/department/).

- Il est le chef de mon **département**.
  He is the chief of my **department**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#283724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283724) [\#129995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129995))

- Quoi qu'il en soit, le nommé Jean Valjean vient d'être traduit aux assises du **département** du Var comme accusé d'un vol de grand chemin commis à main armée, il y a huit ans environ, sur la personne d'un de ces honnêtes enfants qui, comme l'a dit le patriarche de Ferney en vers immortels:
  However that may be, the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the **Department** of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse,
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7789)

- Un autre **département** s'occupe, pour le moment, de cette question.
  That, for the moment, is the concern of another **department**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1961792)

- **Département** de la Haute-Loire:
  The Haute-Loire **department**:
  ([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 1633590)

- **Département** de l &apos; environnement
  **Department** of the Environment
  ([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 6800711)

## overseas

Used about 20 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20). Meaning: [overseas in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/overseas/).

- Vous avez fait référence aux **départements** d'outre-mer qui existent.
  You referred to existing **overseas** départements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1123119)

- Ainsi, les **départements** français d' Outre-mer connaissent des taux de chômage dramatiquement élevés : Martinique 27 %, Guadeloupe 30, la Réunion 37 %.
  Thus, in the French **overseas** territories, there are dramatically high levels of unemployment: 27% in Martinique, 30% in Guadeloupe, 37% in Réunion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2029004)

- - La filière cannière est un enjeu primordial pour les **Départements** d’Outre-mer français (DOM) en termes d’équilibre social, économique et environnemental.
  The sugar-cane sector is of vital importance to the French **Overseas** Départements (DOMs) in terms of social, economic and environmental equilibrium.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 660585)

## affairs

Used about 7 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 7). Meaning: [affairs in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/affairs/).

- Et tout cela pendant que le **département** d'État reçoit - comme il l'a fait la semaine dernière - M. Akhmadov, ministre des Affaires étrangères du gouvernement tchétchène.
  And all this while the US government welcomes - as it did last week - the Chechen Minister for Foreign **Affairs**, Mr Akhmadov.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 180501)

## More sentences

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

- Le chef de **département** s'exclama soudainement : « J'aime les femmes et la viande avec un petit goût de pourri. »
  The section chief said out of the blue: "Women and meat, I like them a little rotten."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and Grayster · checked, community translation · [\#402607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/402607) [\#1042582](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1042582))

- Où se trouve le **département** enfants ?
  Where's the children's section?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#687680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/687680) [\#1271034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1271034))

- Tu trouveras ce livre dans le **département** Histoire de la bibliothèque.
  You'll find that book in the historical section of the library.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#43912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43912) [\#1142023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1142023))

## Grammar

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