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# occasion — French to English

How French *occasion* 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: occasion (133 802), occasione (1), occasions (12 320). By style: everyday 298 · literary 24 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 16 458 · legal and administrative 3 299 · UN documents 125 996.

## occasions

Used about 54 676 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 5 143 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 409 · UN documents ≈ 48 060). Forms: occasion, occasions. Meaning: [occasions in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/occasions/).

- Je l'ai rencontré à plusieurs **occasions**.
  I met him on several **occasions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Romira and CK · checked, community translation · [\#284857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284857) [\#181673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181673))

- Sa mort, prévue, était redoutée du peuple comme une perte et du gouvernement comme une **occasion**.
  His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and by the government as an **occasion**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22987)

- Heureux celui pour qui je ne serai pas une **occasion** de chute!
  Blessed is he who finds no **occasion** for stumbling in me.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:6)

- Je suis venu ici à de **occasions**.
  I have been here on **occasions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 655554)

- A été contacté à de rares **occasions**
  Was contacted on a few **occasions**
  ([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 4450123)

## opportunity

Used about 49 672 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 8 915 · legal and administrative ≈ 344 · UN documents ≈ 40 267). Forms: opportunities, opportunity. Meaning: [opportunity in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/opportunity/).

- Tu as eu plein d'**occasions**.
  You had plenty of **opportunity**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3730222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3730222) [\#4142233](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4142233))

- Là, les **occasions** de se perdre abondaient.
  There **opportunities** of losing oneself abound.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27640)

- Depuis ce moment, il cherchait une **occasion** favorable pour livrer Jésus.
  From that time he sought **opportunity** to betray him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 26:16)

- Des **occasions** ont de nouveau été ratées.
  **Opportunities** have been missed again.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1473764)

- L’**occasion** devrait être mise à profit pour inclure ces modifications dans l’appendice 2.
  The **opportunity** should be taken to include these changes in Appendix 2.
  ([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 380228)

## several

Used about 2 975 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 343 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 2 598). Meaning: [several in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/several/).

- Le commissaire Fischler s'est entretenu avec les plus hautes autorités marocaines à différentes **occasions**.
  Commissioner Fischler held **several** meetings with the highest authorities in Morocco.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 116923)

- La maladie survient dans plusieurs pays tiers en de rares **occasions** ou de façon sporadique et, depuis plusieurs années, elle apparaît en Israël par vagues épidémiques.
  ND occurs in **several** third countries on a rare or sporadic basis and since several years it appears in Israel in epidemic waves.
  ([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 3620340)

- Il s &apos; est entretenu personnellement de la question avec des représentants de plusieurs États, notamment à l &apos; **occasion** de divers événements organisés par le Comité.
  He had personally discussed the issue with officials from **several** States, including at various events that had been organized by the Committee.
  ([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 23795021)

- La première proposition en la matière a été retirée en 1973 - il y a 30 ans - et l’idée a été soulevée à plusieurs **occasions** depuis lors, la dernière fois en 1993.
  The first proposal on the subject was tabled back in 1973 – 30 years ago – and the idea has been raised **several** times since, most recently in 1993.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 503147)

- 48. Les obstacles rencontrés par les pays Parties en développement dans la mise en œuvre des diverses conventions relatives à l &apos; environnement ont été exposés à diverses **occasions**.
  48. The challenges that each developing country Party faces while trying to implement the various environmental conventions has been echoed at **several** forums.
  ([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 10872244)

## More sentences

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

- Dès que je peux en avoir l'**occasion**, j'aiderai ta mère à peindre la clôture.
  As soon as I can get the chance, I'll help your mother paint the fence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953140) [\#1405044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405044))

- Mieux vaut un vieux diamant d'**occasion** que pas de diamant du tout.
  It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by altebrilas and CK · checked, community translation · [\#667953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/667953) [\#2019823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2019823))

- Dès que je peux en avoir l'**occasion**, j'aiderai votre mère à peindre la clôture.
  As soon as I can get the chance, I'll help your mother paint the fence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953140) [\#1405047](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405047))

## 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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