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# idées — French to English

How French *idées* 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: idées (30 953). By style: everyday 266 · literary 37 · parliamentary 4 465 · legal and administrative 535 · UN documents 25 650.

## ideas

Used about 21 065 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 222 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 3 814 · legal and administrative ≈ 435 · UN documents ≈ 16 566).

- J'ai tant d'**idées** !
  I have so many **ideas**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1887368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1887368) [\#2042004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2042004))

- 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)

- Bon nombre d’**idées** sont sur la table.
  Many **ideas** are being discussed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 810587)

- De cette façon, l'EIT aidera à amener des **idées** sur le marché.
  In doing so, the EIT shall help to bring **ideas** to the market.
  ([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 3061956)

- Quatrièmement, **idées** préliminaires sur de nouveaux instruments juridiques internationaux.
  Fourthly, tentative **ideas** on new international legal instruments.
  ([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 7075452)

## More sentences

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

- S'il vous plaît, résumez vos **idées**.
  Please sum up your idea.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and NastyaKayokhtina · checked, community translation · [\#17168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17168) [\#1152352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152352))

- On voyage pour changer, non de lieu, mais d'**idées**.
  We travel not to move, but to change our mind.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1319479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1319479) [\#924426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/924426))

- Mes **idées** sont en accord avec les leurs.
  My thoughts are in agreement with them.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#250879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250879) [\#1189565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1189565))

## 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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