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# description — French to English

How French *description* 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: description (44 397), descriptions (2 617). By style: everyday 27 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 571 · legal and administrative 19 535 · UN documents 26 879.

## description

Used about 43 283 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 381 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 518 · UN documents ≈ 24 359). Forms: description, descriptions. Meaning: [description in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/description/).

- Voici une brève **description**.
  Here is a brief **description**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4665808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4665808) [\#4714385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4714385))

- Ce jeune cavalier portait le brillant habit de capitaine des archers de l'ordonnance du roi, lequel ressemble beaucoup trop au costume de Jupiter, qu'on a déjà pu admirer au premier livre de cette histoire, pour que nous en fatiguions le lecteur d'une seconde **description**.
  This young man wore the garb of a captain of the king’s unattached archers, which bears far too much resemblance to the costume of Jupiter, which the reader has already been enabled to admire in the first book of this history, for us to inflict upon him a second **description**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3600)

- Il s'agira d'une **description** mesure par mesure.
  It will be a measure-by-measure **description**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1368353)

- les **descriptions** des variables;
  the **descriptions** of variables;
  ([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 4664494)

- B. **Descriptions** des faits
  B. **Description** of the facts
  ([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 23988283)

## detailed

Used about 1 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1).

- Les témoins ont fourni des **descriptions** détaillées de l'agresseur.
  Witnesses provided **detailed** descriptions of the assailant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#812157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/812157) [\#12942124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12942124))

## More sentences

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

- Il donna une **description** détaillée de l'accident.
  He described the incident in detail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cocorico and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#683958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/683958) [\#135166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135166))

- S’ils rougissent de toute leur conduite, fais-leur connaître la forme de cette maison, sa disposition, ses issues et ses entrées, tous ses dessins et toutes ses ordonnances, tous ses dessins et toutes ses lois; mets-en la **description** sous leurs yeux, afin qu’ils gardent tous ses dessins et toutes ses ordonnances, et qu’ils s’y conforment dans l’exécution.
  If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, its fashion, its exits, its entrances, its structure, all its ordinances, all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 43:11)

- Beaucoup de choses ont été dites sur la **description** détaillée de la proposition.
  A great deal has been said about the specification of the proposal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1877493)

## 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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