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# législation — French to English

How French *législation* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: législation (228 022), législations (18 690). By style: everyday 12 · literary 3 · parliamentary 20 948 · legal and administrative 28 588 · UN documents 197 161.

## legislation

Used about 143 774 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 15 056 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 698 · UN documents ≈ 115 011). Meaning: [legislation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/legislation/).

- Ce genre de **législation** contraignante entrave forcément l'économie.
  This kind of restrictive **legislation** is bound to hobble the economy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and PeterR · checked, community translation · [\#1345424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1345424) [\#10633472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10633472))

- Mais, en peu de temps, tous ces essais de **législation** communale tombèrent en désuétude.
  But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal **legislation** fell into abeyance.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7009)

- Il est donc grand temps d'élaborer une **législation** dans ce domaine.
  It is therefore high time that **legislation** was drafted in this field.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 158356)

- **LÉGISLATIONS** \[1\]Dispositions de l'Union
  **LEGISLATION** \[1\]Provisions of the Union
  ([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 276890)

- III. LA **LÉGISLATION** ANTITERRORISME
  III. ANTI—TERRORIST **LEGISLATION**
  ([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 6305691)

## laws

Used about 71 872 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 4 801 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 614 · UN documents ≈ 55 452). Forms: law, laws.

- La **législation** a été modifiée.
  The **law** was changed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#321042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/321042) [\#9763645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9763645))

- Il faut un changement ou une adaptation des **législations** nationales.
  We need a change in, or an adaptation of, Member States' **laws**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 462858)

- Il examine les progrès en ce qui concerne le rapprochement et la mise en œuvre des **législations**.
  It shall assess progress on the approximation and implementation of **laws**.
  ([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 45532)

- A. Mesures prises pour aligner la **législation** et la politique
  A. Measures taken to harmonize Rwanda &apos; s **laws** and
  ([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 10510804)

- La **législation** a été modifiée.
  The **law** has been changed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Opiejay888 · checked, community translation · [\#2486594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2486594) [\#9763645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9763645))

## national

Used about 12 790 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 436 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 085 · UN documents ≈ 10 269). Meaning: [national in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/national/).

- Je pourrais mentionner aussi la nécessité d’éviter une situation dans laquelle les **législations** européennes viendraient s’ajouter aux **législations** nationales.
  I could also mention avoidance of a situation in which European regulations were superimposed on **national** ones.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 543167)

- Référence de l'article de la **législation** nationale
  Reference to Article in **national** law
  ([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 3766556)

- L &apos; État partie a indiqué que toute autre façon de procéder en l &apos; espèce aurait constitué une violation de la **législation** nationale.
  It stated that any other way of handling this case would have violated **national** law.
  ([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 16429113)

- C'est pourquoi il est tout à fait souhaitable qu'il y ait convergence des **législations** nationales sur l'élection des députés européens.
  Precisely for this reason the convergence of **national** systems of electoral law for electing Members of the European Parliament is wholly desirable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1870054)

- Référence initiale à la **législation** nationale: Ausnahmezulassung Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, Nr E 1/97.
  Original reference to **national** legal provisions: Ausnahmezulassung Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, No E 1/97.
  ([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 4519403)

## approximation

Used about 893 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 893). Meaning: [approximation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/approximation/).

- Calendrier indicatif relatif aux réformes institutionnelles, au rapprochement des **législations** et à l'accès aux marchés
  Indicative time schedule for institutional reform, **approximation** and market access
  ([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 245286)

- d’un rapprochement des **législations** et d’une convergence des réglementations avec les normes de l’Union et d’autres normes internationales applicables,
  legislative **approximation** and regulatory convergence towards Union and other relevant international standards,
  ([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 4464331)

## More sentences

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

- Pourquoi a-t-il agi en solo dans les négociations avec les Américains sur la **législation** Helms-Burton?
  Why did the Commissioner go it alone in the negotiations with the Americans on the Helms-Burton Act?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1749912)

- Bertel Haarder a déclaré au journal Berlingske Tidende que la **législation** sur les étrangers de la gauche danoise constituait une victoire pour les femmes immigrantes.
  In the newspaper Berlingske Tidende, Bertel Haarder says that the Aliens Act of the Danish Right is a victory for immigrant girls.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 347340)

- Le manque de **législation** peut faire d'une région une source de conflit d'ampleur internationale.
  The lack of legal regulations may make the region a source of conflict which is global in nature.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1359372)

## Grammar

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