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# department — French to English

How French *department* 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: department (25 067), departments (824). By style: parliamentary 9 · legal and administrative 370 · UN documents 25 512.

## department

Used about 25 554 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 9 · legal and administrative ≈ 299 · UN documents ≈ 25 246). Forms: department, departments. Meaning: [department in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/department/).

- Le 4 novembre, nous avons eu une entrevue au State **Department** à Washington, suivie de réunions avec le sénateur Byrd de même qu'avec le secrétaire d'État à l'énergie.
  On 4 November we had a meeting with the State **Department** in Washington, followed by meetings with Senator Byrd and the Secretary of State for Energy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1771251)

- **Department** of Foreign Trade
  **Department** of Foreign Trade,
  ([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 728101)

- **Department** of Foreign Affairs
  **Department** of Foreign Affairs
  ([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 7767003)

- La Commission, le Conseil, les ONG, Amnesty International et du State **Department** estiment qu'en 1996, la situation des droits de l'homme s'est encore dégradée.
  In the opinion of the Commission, the Council, the NGOs, Amnesty International and the State **Department**, human rights abuses in Myanmar increased further during 1996.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1698128)

- General **Department** of Atomic Energy (GDAE)
  a.k.a. General **Department** of Atomic Energy (GDAE)
  ([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 2785693)

## ministry

Used about 285 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 19 · UN documents ≈ 266). Meaning: [ministry in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ministry/).

- **Department** of Import and Export
  **Ministry** of Knowledge Economy
  ([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 2444937)

- Mr. HUANG Xingsheng, Director, **Department** of Policy and Regulation Ministry of Education;
  Datuk Faizah Mohd Tahir, Secretary-General, **Ministry** of Women, Family, and Community Development, Advisor;
  ([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 20276110)

- Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Trade **Department**
  **Ministry** of Commerce, Industry and Tourism
  ([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 2732454)

- **Department** of Mines and Geology
  **Ministry** of Economy and Trade Lazariah Building Down Town Beirut Lebanon LESOTHO
  ([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 2963205)

## municipal

Used about 45 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 45). Meaning: [municipal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/municipal/).

- the municipal **departments** of Dasochoriou, Iraqleia, Valtero, Karperi, Koimisi, Lithotopos, Limnochori, Podismeno and Chrysochorafa (in Iraqleia municipality).
  the **municipal** departments of Dasochoriou, Irakleia, Valtero, Karperi, Koimisi, Lithotopos, Limnochori, Podismeno and Chrysochorafa (in Irakleia municipality).
  ([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 5121063)

## More sentences

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

- Mining **department** Lilunga House (3rd floor, Wing B) Somhlolo Road PO Box 9, Mbabane H100 Swaziland
  Export/Import Administration Division
  ([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 2706459)

## 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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