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# invitation — French to English

How French *invitation* 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: invitation (26 477), invitations (3 100). By style: everyday 117 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 018 · legal and administrative 1 150 · UN documents 27 291.

## invitation

Used about 27 410 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 112 · parliamentary ≈ 742 · legal and administrative ≈ 970 · UN documents ≈ 25 585). Forms: invitation, invitations. Meaning: [invitation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/invitation/).

- J'ai refusé l'**invitation**.
  I declined the **invitation**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5830810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5830810) [\#11352153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11352153))

- rapporteur. - (IT) J'accepte votre **invitation**.
  rapporteur. - (IT) I accept your **invitation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1246152)

- l'**invitation** à soumissionner;
  the **invitation** to tender;
  ([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 3769495)

- D. **Invitations** adressées par des États
  D. **Invitations** by Governments
  ([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 24031646)

- Elle refusa mon **invitation**.
  She refused my **invitation**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#314353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314353) [\#1337247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1337247))

## participate

Used about 24 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 24). Meaning: [participate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participate/).

- une **invitation** écrite à participer à ces activités, émanant de l’organisation hôte;
  a written request from the host organisation to **participate** in the activities;
  ([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 102002)

- Seuls les opérateurs économiques ayant reçu une **invitation** du pouvoir adjudicateur à la suite de l’évaluation des informations fournies peuvent participer à la procédure.
  Only those economic operators invited by the contracting authority following the assessment of the information provided may **participate** in the procedure.
  ([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 3192287)

## More sentences

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

- Merci beaucoup pour l'**invitation**.
  It was kind of you to invite us.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#64368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/64368) [\#14116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14116))

- Merci beaucoup pour l'**invitation**.
  Thank you so much for inviting me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#268115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/268115) [\#14116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14116))

- Mais, sans s’inquiéter de l’**invitation**, ils s’en allèrent, celui-ci à son champ, celui-là à son trafic;
  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 22:5)

## 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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