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# ordonnance — French to English

How French *ordonnance* 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: ordonnance (32 349), ordonnances (8 617). By style: everyday 14 · literary 11 · biblical 128 · parliamentary 169 · legal and administrative 2 940 · UN documents 37 704.

## orders

Used about 25 560 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 62 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 929 · UN documents ≈ 23 565). Forms: order, orders.

- Une **ordonnance** de non-lieu, fondée sur son état d'ivresse bien constaté dans la soirée du guet-apens, l'avait mis en liberté.
  An **order** of nolle prosequi, founded on his well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, had set him at liberty.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28770)

- Il est utile de souligner qu'une telle **ordonnance** n'aurait qu'un effet préventif.
  It is worth emphasising that such an **order** would only have a preventive effect.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 986216)

- Les originaux des arrêts et **ordonnances**
  Originals of judgments and **orders**
  ([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 1197851)

- B. **Ordonnances** administratives/circulaires ministérielles
  B. Administrative/Department **Orders**
  ([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 1199958)

- Il est vrai que le mystère devait durer depuis midi jusqu'à quatre heures, d'après l'**ordonnance** de monsieur le prévôt, et qu'il faut bien dire quelque chose.
  It is true that the mystery was to last from noon until four o’clock, in accordance with the **orders** of monsieur the provost, and that it was necessary to say something.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 394)

## ordinance

Used about 9 495 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 68 · parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 766 · UN documents ≈ 8 641). Forms: ordinance, ordinances. Meaning: [ordinance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ordinance/).

- Sur quoi l'évêque avait été contraint de lui citer l'**ordonnance** du légat Odo qui excepte certaines grandes dames, aliquæ magnates mulieres, quæ sine scandalo evitari non possunt\[51\].
  Upon which the bishop had been constrained to recite to him the **ordinance** of Legate Odo, which excepts certain great dames, aliquæ magnates mulieres, quæ sine scandalo vitari non possunt.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2347)

- Tu observeras cette **ordonnance** au temps fixé d’année en année.
  You shall therefore keep this **ordinance** in its season from year to year.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 13:10)

- Une **ordonnance** est en cours d’étude, qui en prévoit soixante autres.
  I now have an **ordinance** in the course of being appraised which will provide for a further 60.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 832109)

- Renvoi à l’**ordonnance** administrative pertinente.
  Reference to relevant administrative **ordinance**.
  ([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 3050692)

- **Ordonnances**: un an environ, en fonction de l &apos; organisme responsable.
  **Ordinances**: approximately 1 year, depending on the responsible body.
  ([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 29742833)

## More sentences

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

- Tu n'as pas le droit d'acheter ça sans **ordonnance**.
  You are not allowed to buy that without a prescription.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10308906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10308906) [\#10308904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10308904))

- Je pense qu'il est temps pour moi de renouveler cette **ordonnance**.
  I think it's time for me to refill this prescription.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#903860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/903860) [\#9917167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9917167))

- Tu ne peux pas acheter ce médicament sans **ordonnance**.
  You cannot purchase this medicine without a prescription.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5992302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5992302) [\#1013117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1013117))

## Grammar

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