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# formulation — French to English

How French *formulation* 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: formulation (39 122), formulations (1 599). By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 2 262 · legal and administrative 1 387 · UN documents 37 068.

## formulations

Used about 21 109 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 306 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 110 · UN documents ≈ 19 692). Forms: formulation, formulations.

- Le monde réel est toujours plus compliqué que les **formulations** en laboratoire ou les plans en bureau d'étude.
  The natural world is always much more complex than **formulations** in the lab or blueprints in the design office.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and eastasiastudent · checked, community translation · [\#2367549](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367549) [\#2367695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367695))

- Le rapport comporte en outre de nombreuses **formulations** manquant de sérieux.
  Moreover, the report is full of careless **formulations**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 299177)

- Type(s) de **formulation**
  Type(s) of **formulation**
  ([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 5409377)

- 1. **Formulation** des politiques générales
  1. Policy **formulation** and monitoring
  ([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 7978048)

- Nous nous félicitons des **formulations** qui ont été choisies à propos de l'élargissement.
  We are delighted about the **formulations** concerning enlargement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68140)

## wording

Used about 3 620 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 872 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 · UN documents ≈ 2 703). Forms: wording, wordings.

- Je ne suis pas complètement satisfait de la **formulation** de cette phrase.
  I'm not quite happy with the **wording** of this sentence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#1312914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1312914) [\#1313148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1313148))

- La **formulation** est également peu claire.
  The **wording** is also fairly unclear.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 757964)

- Ceci est également rendu clair par la **formulation** de la décision C 10/1994.
  This is also clear from the **wording** of decision C 10/94.
  ([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 1696143)

- Ces deux **formulations** recouvrent un seul et même critère.
  No difference between these two **wordings** of the criterion is intended.
  ([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 13370769)

- Je dois y réfléchir. Je vais essayer de trouver une autre **formulation**.
  I have to think about it. I'll try to find another **wording**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2730082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2730082) [\#7802717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7802717))

## language

Used about 2 864 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 · UN documents ≈ 2 703). Meaning: [language in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/language/).

- Je déplore certaines **formulations** du rapport Kirilov par rapport à la stratégie de Lisbonne.
  I find some of the **language** in Kirilov's report in relation to the Lisbon strategy regrettable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1225055)

- Peut parler relativement longtemps, mais la **formulation** et les pauses sont souvent inappropriées.
  Produces stretches of **language**, but phrasing and pausing are often inappropriate.
  ([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 885906)

- de la Convention: **formulations** possibles pour un mécanisme destiné
  compliance: possible drafting **language** for a mechanism
  ([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 24585153)

- En conséquence, je souhaiterais que ce concept apparaisse aussi clairement dans la **formulation** des différentes versions linguistiques.
  That is why I would like this made clear by the **language** used in the translations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 429508)

- Comme l'a suggéré Since Hardware, certaines **formulations** employées dans les informations communiquées, qui peuvent avoir été source de confusion sur ce point, ont été supprimées.
  As suggested by Since Hardware, certain **language** in the disclosure which may have been confusing on this point has been removed.
  ([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 2214760)

## More sentences

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

- Lorsqu'un anglophone s'aperçoit que son interlocuteur étranger n'a pas compris une de ses phrases, il la répète, à l'identique, mais plus fort, comme si son interlocuteur était sourd. À aucun moment il ne lui vient à l'esprit que son vocabulaire est peut-être compliqué ou que sa **formulation** est très probablement ambiguë pour un étranger et qu'il pourrait reformuler d'une manière plus simple. Le résultat est que non seulement l'interlocuteur ne comprend toujours pas, mais il est irrité d'être pris pour un sourd.
  When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1280788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1280788) [\#1280786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1280786))

- Bien entendu, ce groupe porte le nom de PPE-DE et cette **formulation** implique que toute une section de son groupe n'a même pas l'occasion de s'exprimer.
  Of course, the group is called the PPE-DE Group, and this phrasing implies that a whole section of his group is not even given the chance to speak.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 899963)

- Il soumet la **formulation** d’objections aux transferts de déchets destinés à être valorisés sur la base de normes nationales à des délais maximums.
  It makes provision for maximum deadlines for formulating objections to shipments of waste for recovery on the basis of national standards.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 729059)

## 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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