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# départements — French to English

How French *départements* 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: départements (30 485). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 295 · legal and administrative 916 · UN documents 29 273.

## departments

Used about 25 850 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 630 · UN documents ≈ 25 004).

- La racine du problème est un manque de communication entre les **départements**.
  The root of the problem is a lack of communication between **departments**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aimablealpaga and CK · checked, community translation · [\#323856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/323856) [\#430884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430884))

- Les DOM sont uniquement les **départements** français d'outre-mer.
  There are the Overseas **Departments** and there are Overseas Territories.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1955476)

- dans les **départements** de la Corse;
  in the **departments** of Corsica,
  ([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 1549682)

- **Départements** nationaux et provinciaux
  national and provincial **departments**
  ([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 26168407)

- Nous avons clairement besoin d’une approche conjointe, menée par différents **départements**.
  We clearly need a joined-up approach by various **departments**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795135)

## offices

Used about 19 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 19).

- Bureaux de l'administration d'État dans les **départements**
  County state administration **offices**
  ([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 269357)

## overseas

Used about 18 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 18). 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)

## More sentences

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

- Ces **départements** sont français depuis le 17e siècle.
  Those départements have been French since the 17th century.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1123120)

- Nous savons tous combien il est facile qu'une question importante pour un citoyen tombe dans la brèche située entre deux **départements**, commissions ou directions.
  We all know how easy it is for matters of importance to individual citizens to fall into the gap between one department, commission or directorate and another.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 501896)

- Nous découvrons après la catastrophe, dans de nombreux **départements**, des failles importantes de sécurité dans l'industrie chimique.
  Following the disaster, we are discovering serious safety lapses in the chemical industry in other parts of the country.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 234707)

## Grammar

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