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# poste — French to English

How French *poste* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: poste (111 727), postes (157 752). By style: everyday 413 · literary 28 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 4 402 · legal and administrative 16 408 · UN documents 248 205.

## post

Used about 115 993 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 84 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 467 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 247 · UN documents ≈ 111 175). Forms: post, posts. Meaning: [post in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/post/).

- J’ai vu un post au sujet du **poste**.
  I saw a **post** about the job.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11812277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11812277) [\#11812271](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11812271))

- --En prenant des chevaux de **poste**?
  “By taking two **post**-horses?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5483)

- Puis elle s’écria, comme un lion: Seigneur, je me tiens sur la tour toute la journée, Et je suis à mon **poste** toutes les nuits;
  He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my **post**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 21:8)

- Le président est à son **poste**.
  The President is occupying his **post**, his seat.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1822528)

- **Poste** autrichienne (privée dans ce cas)
  Austrian **Post** (private for this case)
  ([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 587071)

## position

Used about 50 551 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 66 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 504 · legal and administrative ≈ 855 · UN documents ≈ 49 124). Forms: position, positions. Meaning: [position in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/position/).

- Quel est votre **poste** ?
  What **position** do you hold?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#17075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17075) [\#474294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474294))

- Chacun avait pris son **poste** de combat.
  Each man had taken up his **position** for the conflict.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24490)

- Les sacrificateurs se tenaient à leur **poste**, et les Lévites aussi avec les instruments faits en l’honneur de l’Éternel par le roi David pour le chant des louanges de l’Éternel, lorsque David les chargea de célébrer l’Éternel en disant: Car sa miséricorde dure à toujours! Les sacrificateurs sonnaient des trompettes vis-à-vis d’eux. Et tout Israël était là.
  The priests stood, according to their **positions**; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 7:6)

- Entre-temps, le candidat pour le **poste** de catégorie A12 a réussi.
  In the meantime, the candidate for the category A12 **position** was successful.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 728092)

- (facultatif) publication de **postes** vacants ou possibilité de postuler en ligne;
  (optional) advertisement of open job **positions** or online job application;
  ([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 3721916)

## items

Used about 4 023 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 92 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 931).

- Quant à la rubrique 3, les mesures politiques internes, certains **postes** de cette rubrique sont fixes.
  As regards heading 3, internal policy actions, a number of **items** under this heading have already been laid down.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 428826)

- **Postes** de contrôle par recoupement
  Cross-check data **items**
  ([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 1466080)

- La marge d'erreur financière pour les fonds régionaux est supérieure à 5 %, ce qui dépasse par conséquent les deux **postes** les plus importants du budget.
  The financial margin of error for regional funds is more than 5%, which therefore exceeds the two most important expenditure **items** in the budget.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1439106)

- Position nette des sous-**postes** suivants:
  Net position of the following sub-**items**:
  ([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 3910544)

- Catégorisation du contenu des **postes** du bilan
  Categorisation of contents of balance sheet **items**
  ([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 1783102)

## job

Used about 3 111 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 126 · parliamentary ≈ 229 · legal and administrative ≈ 171 · UN documents ≈ 2 585). Meaning: [job in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/job/).

- Il a changé de **poste**.
  He changed his **job**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#297080](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297080) [\#4696125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4696125))

- Aucun d'entre eux n'a occupé un vrai **poste** au cours de sa vie.
  None of them have ever done a real **job** in their lives.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 960421)

- Participation à la rotation organisée sur les **postes** de travail, aux échanges, aux détachements ou aux visites d'études
  Participation in **job** rotation, exchanges, secondments or study visits
  ([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 3400322)

- Les différences de rémunération sont liées au secteur économique ou la branche d &apos; activité, ainsi qu &apos; au **poste** ou à la fonction occupés.
  Pay varies according to industry or sector of the economy and the **job** a worker does.
  ([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 13480145)

- Elle n'a pas eu le **poste**.
  She didn't get the **job**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2830308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2830308) [\#12316377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12316377))

## More sentences

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

- Puis-je allumer le **poste** de radio ?
  May I turn on the radio?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#1328248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1328248) [\#1328895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1328895))

- Mon **poste** de télévision a cessé de fonctionner.
  My TV has quit working.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#435792](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/435792) [\#1960205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1960205))

- Sami a été amené au **poste** de police et a été interrogé.
  Sami was brought into the police station and questioned.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6378520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6378520) [\#6378540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6378540))

## 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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