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# exception — French to English

How French *exception* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: exception (65 131), exceptione (1), exceptions (12 657). By style: everyday 91 · literary 6 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 4 053 · legal and administrative 18 894 · UN documents 54 743.

## exception

Used about 58 372 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 420 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 351 · UN documents ≈ 39 505). Forms: except, exception, exceptions. Meaning: [exception in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/exception/).

- Tom fit une **exception**.
  Tom made an **exception**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2646349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2646349) [\#3801907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3801907))

- Le cimetière Vaugirard faisait **exception** parmi les cimetières de Paris.
  The Vaugirard cemetery formed an **exception** among the cemeteries of Paris.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11933)

- Mais Israël ne brûla aucune des villes situées sur des collines, à l’**exception** seulement de Hatsor, qui fut brûlée par Josué.
  But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, **except** Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 11:13)

- L'année dernière a fait **exception** à la règle.
  Last year was an **exception**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 923079)

- avec les **exceptions** suivantes:
  with the **exception** 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 3585327)

## More sentences

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

- Personne ne se trouvait dans la pièce à l'**exception** de Marie et de Jean.
  There was no one in the room besides Mary and John.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CN · checked, community translation · [\#32040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32040) [\#817443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817443))

- L'humour peut être disséqué comme une grenouille, mais la chose meurt dans l'opération et les entrailles rebutent quiconque à l'**exception** du pur esprit scientifique.
  Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#425079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425079) [\#458719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/458719))

- Il se disait que c'était donc vrai, qu'il y avait des **exceptions**, que l'autorité pouvait être décontenancée, que la règle pouvait rester court devant un fait, que tout ne s'encadrait pas dans le texte du code, que l'imprévu se faisait obéir, que la vertu d'un forçat pouvait tendre un piège à la vertu d'un fonctionnaire, que le monstrueux pouvait être divin, que la destinée avait de ces embuscades-là, et il songeait avec désespoir que lui-même n'avait pas été à l'abri d'une surprise.
  He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified against a surprise.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28620)

## Grammar

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