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# différences — French to English

How French *différences* 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: différences (33 867). By style: everyday 38 · literary 1 · parliamentary 3 526 · legal and administrative 5 093 · UN documents 25 209.

## differences

Used about 22 822 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 791 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 714 · UN documents ≈ 16 281). Forms: difference, differences, different.

- Il y a des **différences** subtiles.
  There are subtle **differences**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and CK · checked, community translation · [\#12691513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12691513) [\#12692835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12692835))

- Du reste, toutes ces nuances, toutes ces **différences** n'affectent que la surface des édifices.
  However, all these shades, all these **differences**, do not affect the surfaces of edifices only.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1780)

- Les **différences** relèvent du détail.
  The **differences** are in the detail.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 864418)

- **Différences** de développement socio-économique
  **Differences** in socio-economic development
  ([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 1962565)

- ii) **Différences** de taux de change
  (ii) Exchange rate **differences**
  ([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 6900788)

## differ

Used about 3 548 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 73 · legal and administrative ≈ 849 · UN documents ≈ 2 626). Meaning: [differ in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/differ/).

- Et puisqu'il faut bien trouver quelques **différences** entre nous, en cherchant bien, j'en mentionnerai deux avant de conclure.
  And since we do need to identify a few areas where we **differ**, I have looked very hard and will mention two before concluding.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 460071)

- «Type de véhicule», des véhicules ne présentant pas entre eux de **différences** essentielles en ce qui concerne:
  ‘Vehicle type’ means vehicles which do not **differ** essentially in respect of:
  ([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 5515552)

- 2.2.1 &quot; Type de véhicule &quot; , les véhicules ne présentant pas entre eux de **différences** en ce qui concerne les aspects essentiels suivants:
  2.2.1. &quot; Vehicle type &quot; means vehicles, which do not **differ** in the following essential aspects:
  ([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 21060552)

- Par «type d'élément», des éléments qui ne présentent pas entre eux de **différences** quant à leurs caractéristiques essentielles, à savoir:
  ‘Type of a component’ means components which do not **differ** in such essential respects as:
  ([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 5538075)

- 1.3 Par &lt; &lt; indicateurs de direction de types différents &gt; &gt; , des indicateurs qui présentent des **différences** essentielles pouvant porter notamment sur:
  1.3. &quot; Direction indicators of different types &quot; means lamps which **differ** in such essential respects as:
  ([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 29912508)

## More sentences

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

- Les **différences** entre les histoires des deux parties impliquées dans l'accident étaient si grandes que les autorités ont eu du mal à décider qui disait la vérité.
  The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kurisutofu and kurisutofu · checked, community translation · [\#1918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1918) [\#130855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130855))

- Il existe des **différences**.
  There are discrepancies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2252608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2252608) [\#7556146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7556146))

- Il y a des **différences**.
  There are discrepancies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2252608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2252608) [\#7556145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7556145))

## Grammar

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