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# discussion — French to English

How French *discussion* 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: discussion (40 686), discussione (1), discussions (48 197). By style: everyday 142 · literary 8 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 16 235 · legal and administrative 1 973 · UN documents 70 516.

## discussion

Used about 74 829 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 75 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 9 978 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 521 · UN documents ≈ 63 246). Forms: discussion, discussions. Meaning: [discussion in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/discussion/).

- C'est en **discussion**.
  That's under **discussion**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#6484270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6484270) [\#7815900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7815900))

- Et la **discussion**, qui avait duré toute la journée, reprit dès le potage.
  And this **discussion**, which had gone on all day, began again with the soup.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1250)

- Paul et Barnabas eurent avec eux un débat et une vive **discussion**; et les frères décidèrent que Paul et Barnabas, et quelques-uns des leurs, monteraient à Jérusalem vers les apôtres et les anciens, pour traiter cette question.
  Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and **discussion** with them, they appointed Paul, Barnabas, and some others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:2)

- Je ne tiens pas à prolonger la **discussion**.
  I do not want to prolong the **discussion** ahead.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 490005)

- NOTIFICATION PRÉALABLE AVEC **DISCUSSION**
  PRIOR NOTIFICATION WITH **DISCUSSION**
  ([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 2461972)

## debate

Used about 5 953 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 3 721 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 2 181). Meaning: [debate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/debate/).

- Votre décision prête à **discussion**.
  Your decision is open to some **debate**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#17249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17249) [\#474403](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474403))

- La **discussion** commune est close.
  The **debate** is closed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 283535)

- La conférence des présidents peut proposer, en vue du déroulement d'une **discussion**, la répartition du temps de parole.
  The Conference of Presidents may propose to Parliament that speaking time be allocated for a particular **debate**.
  ([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 2326141)

- On trouvera ci-dessous un bilan succinct de la **discussion**.
  A concise summary of the **debate** is given below. Procedure
  ([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 38463)

- Il se tut tout au long de la **discussion**.
  He was silent throughout the whole **debate**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8836921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8836921) [\#937500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/937500))

## More sentences

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

- Après la **discussion**, elle l'a quitté.
  After their quarrel, she called it quits.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Maxence and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2254443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2254443) [\#7700501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7700501))

- Tu devrais peut-être avoir une petite **discussion** avec Tom.
  Maybe you should have a little talk with Tom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3110254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3110254) [\#5386546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5386546))

- Je vais mener la **discussion**.
  I'll do all the talking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2546089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2546089) [\#3448132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3448132))

## 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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