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# paiement — French to English

How French *paiement* 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: paiement (63 004), paiements (31 314). By style: everyday 25 · literary 1 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 5 793 · legal and administrative 38 201 · UN documents 50 296.

## payment

Used about 81 844 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 888 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 018 · UN documents ≈ 41 913). Forms: payment, payments. Meaning: [payment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/payment/).

- J'ai reçu un **paiement** anticipé.
  I got an advance **payment**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13775078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13775078) [\#12535892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12535892))

- Aussi, un beau matin, se sentant mieux, il avait laissé ses éperons d'or en **paiement** au pharmacopole, et s'était esquivé.
  Hence, one fine morning, feeling himself better, he had left his golden spurs with the leech as **payment**, and had slipped away.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5525)

- Et voici comment s’observera le relâche. Quand on aura publié le relâche en l’honneur de l’Éternel, tout créancier qui aura fait un prêt à son prochain se relâchera de son droit, il ne pressera pas son prochain et son frère pour le **paiement** de sa dette.
  This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require **payment** from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 15:2)

- Et cela n'est pas l'unique **paiement**, cela continue.
  And that is not a one-off **payment**: that continues.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 965318)

- les conditions de **paiement**,
  the applicable **payment** terms,
  ([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 1004849)

## cash

Used about 1 692 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 121 · UN documents ≈ 1 572). Meaning: [cash in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cash/).

- Le nombre des fraudes et contrefaçons liées aux moyens de **paiement** autres que les espèces s'accroît rapidement.
  The amount of fraud in non-**cash** transactions is growing fast.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1912187)

- Ce qui existe, c &apos; est une crise des **paiements**.
  It would seem that what we actually have is a “**cash**-flow crisis”.
  ([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 772010)

- Mais, pour ce qui est des opérations de **paiement**, elle a une fois de plus critiqué la fréquence trop élevée des erreurs.
  It has, however, criticised the excessive incidence of errors in **cash** movements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 255149)

- 5.2 **Paiements** de sécurité sociale en espèces, plans des pouvoirs publics
  5.2 Social insurance benefits in **cash** from government schemes
  ([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 13504899)

- a) Il est créé un fonds d’avances de trésorerie qui sert à atténuer les difficultés de trésorerie résultant des retards dans le **paiement** des quotes-parts.
  (a) There is established a Revolving Credit Fund to be used to relieve **cash** flow pressures caused by overdue assessed contributions.
  ([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 4412425)

## direct

Used about 524 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 524). Meaning: [direct in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/direct/).

- Ces mesures sont par exemple des mesures macroprudentielles, la gestion des marchés financiers intérieurs (y compris les marchés des produits dérivés) et des mesures pesant directement sur les **paiements** extérieurs.
  These measures have included macroprudential measures, management of domestic capital markets (including derivative markets) and **direct** measures on capital account transactions.
  ([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 27067603)

## More sentences

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

- Je lui ai donné 5 dollars en **paiement**.
  I paid him five dollars.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Akenaseryan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#260390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/260390) [\#14740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14740))

- Les fermiers en cessation de **paiements** devaient vendre leurs terres aux enchères.
  Farmers defaulting on loans had to auction off their land.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#265670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265670) [\#482875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/482875))

- de ne rien acheter, le jour du sabbat et les jours de fête, des peuples du pays qui apporteraient à vendre, le jour du sabbat, des marchandises ou denrées quelconques; et de faire relâche la septième année, en n’exigeant le **paiement** d’aucune dette.
  and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year crops and the exaction of every debt.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 10:31)

## Grammar

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