Elamur: [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Parse](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/parse/) · [Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · **Translate** · [Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [MCP](https://mcp.elamur.ai/) · [Groupants](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/) This page as HTML: # intention — French to English How French *intention* 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: intention (175 851), intentione (1), intentions (7 068). By style: everyday 571 · literary 12 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 10 018 · legal and administrative 8 154 · UN documents 164 143. ## intentions Used about 96 295 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 297 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 200 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 011 · UN documents ≈ 83 781). Forms: intend, intention, intentions. - Quelles sont vos **intentions** ? What are your **intentions**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2270119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2270119) [\#3245399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3245399)) - Son mari n'avait eu rien à lui dire; elle subissait la pression vague, mais claire, de ses **intentions** tacites, et obéissait aveuglément. Her husband had not been obliged to say anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his tacit **intentions**, and obeyed blindly. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31246) - Voici, j’ai l’**intention** de bâtir une maison au nom de l’Éternel, mon Dieu, comme l’Éternel l’a déclaré à David, mon père, en disant: Ton fils que je mettrai à ta place sur ton trône, ce sera lui qui bâtira une maison à mon nom. Behold, I **intend** to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’ ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 5:5) - Telle est l'**intention** de cette résolution. That is the **intention** of this resolution. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 917648) - Registre d'**intentions** de l'ECHA. ECHA Registry of **Intentions**. ([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 4004900) ## good Used about 2 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [good in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/good/). - Devant cette tentative presque chimérique, Fauchelevent ne recula point; ce pauvre paysan picard, sans autre échelle que son dévouement, sa bonne volonté, et un peu de cette vieille finesse campagnarde mise cette fois au service d'une **intention** généreuse, entreprit d'escalader les impossibilités du cloître et les rudes escarpements de la règle de saint Benoît. Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder than his self-devotion, his **good** will, and a little of that old rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11202) - Mais si cette nation fait ce qui est mal à mes yeux, Et n’écoute pas ma voix, Je me repens du bien que j’avais eu l’**intention** de lui faire. if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the **good** with which I said I would benefit them. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 18:10) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tu vas précisément où j'avais l'**intention** d'aller. You're heading exactly where I wanted to go. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sam\_m · checked, community translation · [\#1559508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1559508) [\#757870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/757870)) - Nous avons l'**intention** de gravir cette montagne. We're going to climb that mountain. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6874188](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6874188) [\#1118444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1118444)) - Je n'ai jamais eu l'**intention** de vous mettre en quelconque danger. I never meant to put you in any danger. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3226596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3226596) [\#4234426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4234426)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. [Submit a better translation or example](https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/submit/?pair=fr-en&word=intention). Every example is quoted under its source's licence and credited with it; the rest of the site is open under the Elamur Cosmic License.