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# initiative — French to English

How French *initiative* 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: initiative (146 043), initiatives (158 781). By style: everyday 15 · literary 2 · parliamentary 23 622 · legal and administrative 10 394 · UN documents 270 791.

## initiative

Used about 253 634 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 19 193 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 770 · UN documents ≈ 225 659). Forms: initiative, initiatives. Meaning: [initiative in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/initiative/).

- L'**initiative** est punissable.
  The **initiative** is punishable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Balamax and Balamax · checked, community translation · [\#4821687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4821687) [\#4821685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4821685))

- Paris commence au badaud et finit au gamin, deux êtres dont aucune autre ville n'est capable; l'acceptation passive qui se satisfait de regarder, et l'**initiative** inépuisable; Prudhomme et Fouillou.
  Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible **initiative**; Prudhomme and Fouillou.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12624)

- Ce sont les **initiatives** SEM 2000 et MAP 2000.
  This is what the SEM 2000 and MAP 2000 **initiatives** are for.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1929262)

- Esprit d'**initiative** et d'entreprise
  Sense of **initiative** and entrepreneurship
  ([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 882056)

- Le service a également lancé les **initiatives** suivantes :
  The Unit has also undertaken the following **initiatives**:
  ([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 9000725)

## More sentences

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

- Elle fit la vaisselle de sa propre **initiative**.
  She did the dishes of her own accord.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and Goofy · checked, community translation · [\#314588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314588) [\#181750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181750))

- Je ne peux pas prendre une autre **initiative**.
  I can't take another step.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1230869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1230869) [\#1232812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1232812))

- Où se trouve le syndicat d'**initiative** ?
  Where is the tourist information office?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Edouard and CK · checked, community translation · [\#20924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20924) [\#431731](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/431731))

## 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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