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# idée — French to English

How French *idée* 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: idée (51 823), idées (30 953). By style: everyday 1 655 · literary 97 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 16 021 · legal and administrative 917 · UN documents 64 085.

## idea

Used about 46 929 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 431 · literary ≈ 80 · parliamentary ≈ 10 180 · legal and administrative ≈ 525 · UN documents ≈ 34 713). Forms: idea, ideas. Meaning: [idea in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/idea/).

- C'était mon **idée**.
  This was my **idea**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and VilhelmsPort · checked, community translation · [\#3517813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3517813) [\#3517973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3517973))

- Il rallia ses **idées**.
  He rallied his **ideas**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9099)

- L'**idée** même est absurde.
  The very **idea** is absurd.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 73354)

- promouvoir l’**idée** européenne.
  promoting the European **idea**.
  ([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 4767928)

- Il convient de trouver les moyens de traduire cette **idée** dans les faits.
  Ways and means of translating this **idea** into reality need to be explored.
  ([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 782933)

## More sentences

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

- C'était juste une **idée**.
  It was just a thought.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2953069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2953069) [\#6455990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6455990))

- Je n'en ai pas la moindre **idée**.
  I don't have a clue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#396751](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/396751) [\#9487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9487))

- Elle n'avait aucune **idée** quoi faire.
  She was at a loss as to what to do.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#312808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312808) [\#1730527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1730527))

## 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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