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# option — French to English

How French *option* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: option (25 433), options (32 793). By style: everyday 100 · parliamentary 3 279 · legal and administrative 6 518 · UN documents 48 329.

## option

Used about 51 956 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · parliamentary ≈ 2 733 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 839 · UN documents ≈ 43 295). Forms: option, options. Meaning: [option in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/option/).

- La paix est une **option**.
  Peace is an **option**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13469155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13469155) [\#13480064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13480064))

- Il n'y a pas d'autre **option**.
  There is no other **option**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1111120)

- la valeur temps des **options**;
  time value of **options**;
  ([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 4366098)

- As per **Option** a.
  As per **Option** a.
  ([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 19334083)

- Ce sont vos **options**.
  Those are your **options**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2645972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2645972) [\#5494577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5494577))

## More sentences

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

- Je ne vois pas d'autre **option**.
  I see no other choice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2406238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2406238) [\#7839998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7839998))

- Si tu te trouves piégée par un ours dans la forêt, ta meilleure **option** est de te mettre au sol et de faire la morte.
  If you find yourself trapped by a bear in the forest, your best bet is to drop to the ground and play dead.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#885204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/885204) [\#885444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/885444))

- Cela vaut mieux que l'autre **option**.
  It's better than the alternative.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4017253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4017253) [\#12899591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12899591))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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