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# occupation — French to English

How French *occupation* 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: occupation (50 778), occupations (916). By style: everyday 32 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 513 · legal and administrative 693 · UN documents 49 452.

## occupation

Used about 36 132 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 788 · legal and administrative ≈ 295 · UN documents ≈ 35 029). Forms: occupation, occupations. Meaning: [occupation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/occupation/).

- Quelle est ton **occupation** ?
  What's your **occupation**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and CK · checked, community translation · [\#410787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410787) [\#8873094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8873094))

- Pharaon leur dit: Quelle est votre **occupation**? Ils répondirent à Pharaon: Tes serviteurs sont bergers, comme l’étaient nos pères.
  Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your **occupation**?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 47:3)

- Deuxièmement, des règles quant à l'**occupation** du terrain.
  Secondly, rules relating to the **occupation** of land.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209915)

- **Occupation** principale du demandeur: 愦灭※
  Primary **occupation** of the claimant: 愦灭※
  ([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 822532)

- Jusqu &apos; à la fin de l &apos; **occupation**
  Until the end of the **occupation**
  ([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 18168524)

## forces

Used about 1 094 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · UN documents ≈ 1 030).

- Les forces d'**occupation** commettent toutes sortes de crimes de guerre dans la plus parfaite impunité.
  The occupying **forces** commit all sorts of war crimes with absolute impunity.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#8681423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8681423) [\#3334858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3334858))

- Monsieur le Président, je voudrais moi aussi soulever la même question pour condamner les actes de provocation perpétrés par les forces d' **occupation** de Chypre.
  Mr President, I wish to raise the same issue and to condemn the provocative action by the occupying **forces** in Cyprus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68609)

- Les forces d &apos; **occupation** israéliennes ont fait irruption dans ses studios, arrêté M. Breik et confisqué du matériel de transmission et autres appareils.
  Israeli occupying **forces** broke into the station, arrested Mr. Breik and confiscated transmission and other equipment.
  ([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 16696447)

- Des pays, des organisations internationales et des individus ont réagi à la violence des forces d'**occupation** en envoyant des messages de soutien à Vilnius.
  Countries, international organisations and individuals reacted to the violence of the occupying **forces**, sending messages of support to Vilnius.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1480359)

- Le Président Abdiqassim Salad Hassan est intervenu personnellement pour prier instamment les dirigeants politiques éthiopiens de retirer les forces d &apos; **occupation** de notre pays.
  President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan has privately pleaded with the Ethiopian political leadership to remove the occupying **forces** from our country.
  ([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 8332310)

## More sentences

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

- Beaucoup d'écoliers palestiniens passent par des points de contrôle de l'armée d'**occupation** pour aller à l'école.
  A lot of Palestinian students pass through the occupying army's checkpoints to get to school.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#7094518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7094518) [\#5029311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5029311))

- Les espions ont pour **occupation** de savoir des choses que vous voulez qu'ils ignorent.
  Spies make it their business to know things that you don't want them to know.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#516083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/516083) [\#545761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545761))

- Elle avait du temps pour son **occupation** favorite.
  She had time for her favorite hobby.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1152300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152300) [\#1116469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1116469))

## Grammar

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