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# division — French to English

How French *division* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: division (147 425), divisione (16), divisiones (5), divisions (13 470). By style: everyday 11 · literary 6 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 1 842 · legal and administrative 7 968 · UN documents 151 047.

## divisions

Used about 132 878 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 1 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 107 · UN documents ≈ 127 609). Forms: division, divisione, divisions.

- Le Pape, combien de **divisions** ?
  The Pope? How many **divisions** has he got?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and Clavain · checked, community translation · [\#437611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437611) [\#437613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437613))

- L'égoïsme n'est pas une des **divisions** de l'ordre social.
  Selfishness is not one of the **divisions** of the social order.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18114)

- Il y eut donc, à cause de lui, **division** parmi la foule.
  So a **division** arose in the multitude because of him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:43)

- Le premier est la **division** du Kosovo.
  The first major risk is the **division** of Kosovo.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1210683)

- **Divisions** CIEM VII f et g
  ICES **Divisions** VII f and g
  ([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 926519)

## divided

Used about 2 779 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 173 · UN documents ≈ 2 604).

- Le quotient de la **division** de 21 par 7 est de 3.
  The quotient of 21 **divided** by 7 is 3.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12665511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12665511) [\#9228141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9228141))

- Il se trouva parmi les fils d’Éléazar plus de chefs que parmi les fils d’Ithamar, et on en fit la **division**; les fils d’Éléazar avaient seize chefs de maisons paternelles, et les fils d’Ithamar huit chefs de maisons paternelles.
  There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were **divided** like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 24:4)

- Le danger d’une **division** du pays est peut-être exagéré, mais il existe.
  The dangers of a **divided** country may well be exaggerated, but they do exist.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 642878)

- La **division** est de droit si elle est demandée par un membre.
  Parts of a proposal or an amendment shall be voted on separately if a member requests that the proposal be **divided**.
  ([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 6371511)

- La **division** du secteur bancaire et la dette publique qui représente 90 % du PIB sont inquiétantes.
  The **divided** banking sector and public debt amounting to 90% of GDP are alarming.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1540538)

## maj

Used about 1 725 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 725).

- Gén. de **division** Tha Aye
  **Maj**-Gen Tha Aye
  ([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 2428131)

- Gén. de **division** Mya Win
  **Maj**-Gen Mya Win
  ([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 2243374)

- Gén. de **division** Hla Shwe
  **Maj**-Gen Hla Shwe
  ([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 1425665)

- Gén. de **division** Maung Oo
  **Maj**-Gen Maung Oo
  ([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 1236480)

- Gén. de **division** Sein Lin
  **Maj**-Gen Sein Lin
  ([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 2428095)

## ices

Used about 904 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 904).

- sous-**division** X a 2 du CIEM
  **ICES** sub-division Xa 2
  ([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 657760)

- **Division** CIEM VII a — Mer d'Irlande
  **ICES** division VIIa — Irish Sea
  ([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 1791361)

- hareng dans les sous-**divisions** CIEM 30 et 31;
  herring in **ICES** subdivision 30-31;
  ([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 3724209)

- **Division** CIEM VII g — Mer Celtique nord
  **ICES** division VIIg — Celtic Sea North
  ([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 1476122)

- **Division** CIEM VII e – Manche occidentale
  **ICES** division VIIe — Western English Channel
  ([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 2093227)

## More sentences

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

- La **division** par zéro est impossible.
  You can't divide by zero.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9515960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9515960) [\#11560845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11560845))

- L’armée de Terre place sous son commandement des officiers généraux de haut rang : général de brigade, général de **division**, général de corps d’armée et général d’armée.
  The French Army is commanded by high-ranking general officers: brigadier general, major general, corps general, and army general.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362845) [\#13362837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362837))

- Car je suis venu mettre la **division** entre l’homme et son père, entre la fille et sa mère, entre la belle-fille et sa belle-mère;
  For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:35)

## Grammar

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