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# opposition — French to English

How French *opposition* 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: opposition (35 979), oppositions (489). By style: everyday 23 · literary 1 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 5 207 · legal and administrative 4 301 · UN documents 26 932.

## opposition

Used about 17 365 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 309 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 971 · UN documents ≈ 12 063). Forms: opposition, oppositions. Meaning: [opposition in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/opposition/).

- L'**opposition** était divisée.
  The **opposition** was divided.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#806959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/806959) [\#11191210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11191210))

- Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie était toute une église d'**opposition**.
  Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie was a whole church of the **opposition**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2638)

- - Y a-t-il une quelconque **opposition**?
  Is there any **opposition**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735743)

- Règles procédurales applicables aux **oppositions**
  Procedural rules for **oppositions**
  ([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 3340219)

- Financement des groupes d &apos; **oppositions** armés
  Financing of armed **opposition** groups
  ([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 28564497)

## objections

Used about 12 448 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 759 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 150 · UN documents ≈ 9 538). Forms: objection, objections.

- Y a-t-il des **oppositions** à cette demande ?
  Are there any **objections** to this request?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 30388)

- DÉCLARATION D'**OPPOSITION** MOTIVÉE
  SUBSTANTIATED STATEMENT OF **OBJECTION**
  ([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 4888201)

- L &apos; ordre du jour est adopté sans **opposition**.
  The agenda was adopted without **objection**.
  ([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 17610829)

- Y a-t-il des **oppositions** à cette modification?
  Are there any **objections** to this amendment?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1872718)

- Règles procédurales applicables aux **oppositions**
  Procedural rules for **objections**
  ([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 4887905)

## without

Used about 54 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 54). Meaning: [without in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/without/).

- De part et d'autre, il y a eu des prises de position franches - me semble-t-il - qui n'ont cependant pas mené à des **oppositions** inflexibles.
  All sides gave their honest opinions - in my view - **without** falling back on inflexible opposing positions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 114213)

## More sentences

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

- Le rouge, par **opposition** au vert, est un signe de danger.
  Red, as opposed to green, is a sign of danger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#32261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32261) [\#8983916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8983916))

- De tous temps, être dans l'**opposition** en Russie a été considéré comme un crime. C'est plus que jamais le cas aujourd'hui. Comme si les Russes avaient une incapacité chronique à supporter deux opinions différentes à la fois.
  It has always been the case that expressing a different opinion in Russia was considered to be a crime. It's even more true today. It's as if Russians had a chronic inability to bear two opinions at the same time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Imenebaiod · checked, community translation · [\#11411307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11411307) [\#1972558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1972558))

- Considérez, en effet, celui qui a supporté contre sa personne une telle **opposition** de la part des pécheurs, afin que vous ne vous lassiez point, l’âme découragée.
  For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 12:3)

## Grammar

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