Elamur: [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Parse](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/parse/) · [Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · **Translate** · [Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [MCP](https://mcp.elamur.ai/) · [Groupants](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/)

This page as HTML: <https://translate.elamur.ai/free/en/fr-en/distinction/>

# distinction — French to English

How French *distinction* 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: distinction (35 266), distinctions (2 974). By style: everyday 12 · literary 1 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 2 023 · legal and administrative 2 681 · UN documents 33 515.

## distinction

Used about 20 209 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 349 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 396 · UN documents ≈ 17 456). Forms: distinction, distinctions. Meaning: [distinction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/distinction/).

- Cette **distinction** a été fort méritée.
  That **distinction** was well-deserved.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2267821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267821) [\#4902693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4902693))

- Il pourra nous arriver, dans cette mise en scène d'un événement redoutable, de dire parfois l'émeute, mais seulement pour qualifier les faits de surface, et en maintenant toujours la **distinction** entre la forme émeute et le fond insurrection.
  It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, and always preserving the **distinction** between revolt, the form, and insurrection, the foundation.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22958)

- justice de Dieu par la foi en Jésus-Christ pour tous ceux qui croient. Il n’y a point de **distinction**.
  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no **distinction**,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:22)

- Dans l'affirmative, quelles **distinctions** faudrait-il faire?
  If so, what **distinctions** should be made?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312920)

- **Distinction** temps plein/temps partiel
  Full-time/part-time **distinction**
  ([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 656769)

## between

Used about 3 270 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 307 · UN documents ≈ 2 793). Meaning: [between in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/between/).

- Il y a une subtile **distinction** entre une façon de s'exprimer qui est trop concise et pertinente et une façon de s'exprimer qui est trop abrupte.
  There is a fine line **between** speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#1945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1945) [\#417418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/417418))

- Par exemple, pourrait-il y avoir des problèmes en ce qui concerne la **distinction** entre diverses graisses ?
  For example, might there be control problems in distinguishing **between** different fats.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 150604)

- **Distinction** entre l'inhibition de respiration hétérotrophe et la nitrification
  Differentiation **between** inhibition of heterotrophic respiration and nitrification
  ([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 3935246)

- Le terrorisme ne fait pas la **distinction** entre les combattants et les non-combattants.
  It does not discriminate **between** combatants and non-combatants.
  ([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 4612833)

- Troisièmement, la proposition ne fait pas la **distinction** entre les actions sociales menées de façon légale et celles qui ne le sont pas.
  Thirdly, the proposal does not differentiate **between** legal and illegal actions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1911436)

## distinguish

Used about 1 882 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 148 · legal and administrative ≈ 335 · UN documents ≈ 1 396). Meaning: [distinguish in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/distinguish/).

- Les animaux ne peuvent pas faire la **distinction** entre le vrai et le faux.
  Animals can't **distinguish** right from wrong.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6873381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6873381) [\#920952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/920952))

- Dans le cadre du patrimoine culturel, il est opportun de faire la **distinction** entre patrimoine mobilier et immobilier.
  In the field of cultural heritage it is right to **distinguish** between movable and fixed heritage.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1909892)

- À cet effet, il convient d'opérer une **distinction** entre les prix de référence et les prix d'intervention.
  For that purpose it is appropriate to **distinguish** between reference prices and intervention prices.
  ([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 1301688)

- La **distinction** s &apos; imposait alors entre tribunaux et autres juridictions civiles.
  One should **distinguish** between criminal courts and other forms of civil proceedings.
  ([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 10761308)

- On fait la **distinction** entre les conjonctions de subordination et les conjonctions de coordination.
  We **distinguish** between subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10459789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10459789) [\#10498570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10498570))

## More sentences

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

- La médaille d'or olympique est certainement la **distinction** sportive la plus désirée.
  An Olympic gold medal is probably the most coveted sporting prize.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by poubellekfc and Dani6187 · checked, community translation · [\#4032494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4032494) [\#4033234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4033234))

- Nous acceptons tout le monde sans **distinction** de nationalité.
  We accept anybody, irrespective of nationality.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and Lumi\_alt · checked, community translation · [\#241432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241432) [\#180248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180248))

- En mai 1945, les colons français ont tiré sur les Algériens sans **distinction**.
  In May 1945, the French settlers shot Algerians indiscriminately.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11862528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11862528) [\#12104671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12104671))

## 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/).

## About these examples

Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. [Submit a better translation or example](https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/submit/?pair=fr-en&word=distinction).


Every example is quoted under its source's licence and credited with it; the rest of the site is open under the Elamur Cosmic License.