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# positions — French to English

How French *positions* 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: positions (35 064). By style: everyday 14 · literary 1 · parliamentary 3 627 · legal and administrative 11 200 · UN documents 20 222.

## positions

Used about 25 822 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 796 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 900 · UN documents ≈ 18 116). Forms: position, positions.

- Nous avons pris d'assaut les **positions** ennemies.
  We stormed the enemy **positions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sharptoothed · checked, community translation · [\#3060910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3060910) [\#11082127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11082127))

- Les **positions** respectives des deux arts seront interverties.
  The respective **positions** of the two arts will be inverted.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2778)

- Le rapport comprend beaucoup de nos **positions** communes.
  The report contains numerous common **positions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 138291)

- **POSITIONS** SOUMISES AUX EXIGENCES DE FONDS PROPRES
  **POSITIONS** SUBJECT TO CAPITAL CHARGE
  ([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 5165561)

- Ces deux **positions** sont contradictoires et incompatibles.
  The two **positions** are contradictory and incompatible.
  ([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 6062743)

## subheadings

Used about 2 100 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 2 100).

- Parties d'appareils des sous-**positions** 85256000, 85258030, 85284100, 85285100 et 85286100
  Parts of apparatus of **subheadings** 85256000, 85258030, 85284100, 85285100 and 85286100
  ([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 1910561)

- Voir la note 6 de l'appendice 2A pour les sous-**positions** 8544 30, 8544 42, 8544 49 et 8544 60.
  See Note 6 in Appendix 2A for **subheadings** 8544 30, 8544 42, 8544 49, and 8544 60.
  ([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 3847454)

- Un changement à partir de l'intérieur de n'importe laquelle de ces sous-**positions** ou de toute autre sous-position.
  A change from within any one of these **subheadings** or any other subheading.
  ([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 257177)

- Pour l'application des sous-**positions** 22060031 et 22060039, on considère comme «mousseuses»:
  For the purposes of **subheadings** 22060031 and 22060039, the following are regarded as ‘sparkling’:
  ([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 5276455)

- d'alcools gras des sous-**positions** 290517 et 290519 et 382370 destinés à la fabrication de détergents, de cosmétiques ou de produits pharmaceutiques,
  fatty alcohols of **subheadings** 290517, 290519 and 382370 used for the manufacture of cosmetics, washing products or pharmaceutical products,
  ([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 4459623)

## minutes

Used about 233 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 233).

- Les prises de **positions** des catégories représentées dans le comité figurent dans un compte rendu transmis à la Commission.
  The views expressed by the different categories represented in the Committee shall be recorded in the **minutes**, which shall be transmitted to the Commission.
  ([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 1385936)

## More sentences

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

- Elle campe toujours sur ses **positions**.
  She always stands up for her convictions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#310444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/310444) [\#1972735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1972735))

- Elle compte rester sur ses **positions** et ne pas négocier.
  She plans to stand pat and not negotiate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#12893523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12893523) [\#12893524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12893524))

- Les troupes américaines ont maintenu leurs **positions**.
  The American troops held their ground.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#805261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805261) [\#9978366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9978366))

## 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/).

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