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# mission — French to English

How French *mission* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: mission (366 578), missione (4), missiones (3), missions (169 782). By style: everyday 75 · literary 5 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 7 908 · legal and administrative 18 092 · UN documents 510 285.

## mission

Used about 417 014 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 3 389 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 445 · UN documents ≈ 403 125). Forms: mission, missions. Meaning: [mission in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mission/).

- J'ai conduit cette **mission**.
  I led that **mission**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2377285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2377285) [\#2384366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2384366))

- Ce rire a une **mission**.
  This laughter has a **mission**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29585)

- Il s'agit donc d'un devoir démocratique et d'une **mission** qui nous concernent tous.
  So this is also a democratic task and **mission** for all of us.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037531)

- Frais de **missions** et de représentation
  **Mission** and representation expenses
  ([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 4124401)

- 5. Experts militaires en **mission**
  5. Military experts on **mission**
  ([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 21842240)

## tasks

Used about 10 604 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 210 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 290 · UN documents ≈ 5 103).

- Il m'a refilé des **missions** hyper compliquées.
  He offloaded some really tough **tasks** onto me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14051829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14051829) [\#14051832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14051832))

- Ce sont les **missions** de Petersberg.
  It relates to the Petersberg **tasks**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 126100)

- Dans l'exercice de leurs **missions**:
  In carrying out these **tasks**:
  ([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 3479523)

- Nouvelles orientations dans l &apos; accomplissement des **missions** de culture publique
  New trends in the performance of **tasks** in public culture
  ([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 15390236)

- Il faut enfin recentrer les institutions sur leurs **missions** fondamentales.
  Lastly, the institutions themselves must return to their core **tasks**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 336775)

## nations

Used about 5 103 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 103).

- Les dirigeants des **missions** des Nations Unies doivent être à même d &apos; intervenir en cas de crise et d &apos; adapter leurs interventions au changement.
  The leaders of the United **Nations** in the field must be able to respond to crises and changing circumstances.
  ([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 23443716)

## More sentences

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

- Elle a nié qu'on l'ait envoyée en **mission**.
  She denied having been asked to go on a business trip.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#314956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314956) [\#1193432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1193432))

- Pourquoi avez-vous accepté cette **mission** ?
  Why did you accept this assignment?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3731872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3731872) [\#3852786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3852786))

- Tom a accepté la **mission**.
  Tom accepted the assignment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4495430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4495430) [\#14093855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14093855))

## 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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