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# journée — French to English

How French *journée* 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: journée (41 658), journées (8 170). By style: everyday 874 · literary 38 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 2 219 · legal and administrative 1 152 · UN documents 45 517.

## day

Used about 42 311 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 850 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 1 962 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 032 · UN documents ≈ 38 405). Forms: day, days. Meaning: [day in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/day/).

- J'ai pris ma **journée**.
  I got the **day** off.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5858956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5858956) [\#11110549](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11110549))

- La **journée** avait été adorable.
  The **day** had been adorable.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29494)

- Tant que je me suis tu, mes os se consumaient, Je gémissais toute la **journée**;
  When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all **day** long.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 32:3)

- Les **journées** sont rythmées par les embouteillages.
  Gridlock is the order of the **day**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1794996)

- Rémunérations pour **journées** non ouvrées
  Payments for **days** not worked
  ([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 738701)

## More sentences

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

- As-tu des projets pour la **journée** ?
  Do you have plans for today?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8970153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8970153) [\#1099533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1099533))

- Les mécaniciens auto terminent leur **journée** avec les mains couvertes de crasse.
  Auto mechanics finish up the workday with grime all over their hands.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#567772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567772) [\#820638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/820638))

- Puis elle s’écria, comme un lion: Seigneur, je me tiens sur la tour toute la **journée**, Et je suis à mon poste toutes les nuits;
  He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 21:8)

## 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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