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# importation — French to English

How French *importation* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: importation (74 208), importations (61 591). By style: everyday 16 · parliamentary 4 233 · legal and administrative 97 824 · UN documents 33 726.

## imports

Used about 122 828 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 3 704 · legal and administrative ≈ 91 710 · UN documents ≈ 27 402). Forms: import, imports.

- Le Bureau des douanes contrôle les **importations**.
  The customs office controls **imports**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406289) [\#13406288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406288))

- D'abord, les quotas à l'**importation** doivent être réduits.
  First of all, **import** quotas must be reduced.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 958433)

- Part de marché des **importations**
  Market share of **imports**
  ([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 2217123)

- **Importation** de services financiers
  **Imports** of financial services
  ([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 22705187)

- Les **importations** bas de gamme vont saturer le marché.
  Cheap **imports** will glut the market.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#28499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28499) [\#11778441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11778441))

## importation

Used about 9 567 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 220 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 076 · UN documents ≈ 5 270). Meaning: [importation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/importation/).

- Aujourd'hui, le ministre de la Santé a annoncé qu'il a stoppé la distribution et qu'il va rappeler un médicament pour les enfants en raison d'effets secondaires cardiaques. Le gouvernement a pris cela en considération et a interdit l'**importation** de ce médicament.
  Today, the Ministry of Health announced that it has stopped distribution of and is recalling a medicine for children due to the problem of heart related side effects. The government has taken this into account and has forbidden the **importation** of this medicine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by KotobaNiko and notrwanda · checked, community translation · [\#684728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/684728) [\#2286890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2286890))

- Ma question concerne aussi les **importations** d'alcool.
  My question, too, concerns the **importation** of alcohol.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1650793)

- Article 26 **Importation** par envois échelonnés
  Article 26 **Importation** by instalments
  ([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 30868)

- CONVENTIONS DOUANIÈRES RELATIVES À L &apos; **IMPORTATION** TEMPORAIRE
  CUSTOMS CONVENTIONS ON THE TEMPORARY **IMPORTATION** OF PRIVATE
  ([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 15607429)

- Nous sommes également d’accord avec la proposition de règlement sur la production, l’étiquetage et l’**importation** de produits biologiques.
  We also agree with the proposed regulation on the production, labelling and **importation** of organic products.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 860445)

## More sentences

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

- Les suspects répondront des faits d'**importation** et de possession de drogues dans une cour de Sydney.
  The suspects will face charges for importing and possessing drugs in a Sydney court.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1741145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1741145) [\#1741147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1741147))

- Les suspects répondront, devant la cour de Sydney, des faits d'**importation** et de possession de drogues.
  The suspects will face charges for importing and possessing drugs in a Sydney court.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1741145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1741145) [\#1741148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1741148))

- J'ai toujours pensé que les triporteurs et les sukiyaki étaient ce qu'il y a de plus réussi parmi les **importations** de l'Ouest durant l'ère Meiji.
  I've always thought that rickshaws and sukiyaki were the most successful amongst the products made from what was imported from the West during the Meiji period.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Batko and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#547255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547255) [\#1030699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1030699))

## Grammar

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