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# préoccupation — French to English

How French *préoccupation* 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: préoccupation (73 324), préoccupatione (1), préoccupations (63 929). By style: everyday 27 · literary 13 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 8 542 · legal and administrative 2 433 · UN documents 126 238.

## concern

Used about 122 846 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 7 296 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 306 · UN documents ≈ 113 224). Forms: concern, concerns. Meaning: [concern in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/concern/).

- C'est une grande **préoccupation**.
  It's a big **concern**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5386490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5386490) [\#6400043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6400043))

- Je partage votre **préoccupation**.
  I share your **concern**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1658531)

- L'autorité a relevé des **préoccupations** spécifiques.
  The Autority identified specific **concerns**.
  ([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 4739589)

- C. Sujets de **préoccupation**
  C. Subjects of **concern**
  ([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 11748730)

- Cette **préoccupation** semble éloignée de ce Parlement.
  Parliament appears to be disregarding this **concern**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 459681)

## about

Used about 92 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 89). Meaning: [about in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/about/).

- Hé, Tom, oublie tes **préoccupations**.
  Hey, Tom, forget **about** your worries.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#36561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36561) [\#1692460](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692460))

- En véritable neveu du professeur Lidenbrock et malgré mes **préoccupations**, j'observais avec intérêt les curiosités minéralogiques étalées dans ce vaste cabinet d'histoire naturelle; en même temps je refaisais dans mon esprit toute l'histoire géologique de l'Islande.
  As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite of my dismal prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay **about** me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1283)

- L'intégration devrait également être notre **préoccupation**, le bon voisinage.
  We should also all be concerned **about** integration, about good neighbourliness.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 56327)

- Il est évident que l'amélioration de l'expérience utilisateur ne fait pas partie des **préoccupations** des administrateurs de sites web lorsqu'ils ajoutent des widgets de partage de signets sur leurs sites.
  There is no doubt that enhancing user experience is the last thing webmasters think **about** when they add social bookmarking widgets to their sites.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#1722480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1722480) [\#9436395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9436395))

## More sentences

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

- C'est leur **préoccupation** de la propriété, plus que toute autre chose, qui empêche les hommes de vivre librement et noblement.
  It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#411785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411785) [\#411961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411961))

- La **préoccupation** sexuelle est à la base de toute l'activité de l'esprit.
  Preoccupation with sex is the basis of all mental activity.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CardinalRed · checked, community translation · [\#5715972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5715972) [\#1537947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1537947))

- C'est leur **préoccupation** de la possession, plus que quoi que soit d'autre, qui empêche les hommes de vivre librement et noblement.
  It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#411785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411785) [\#533239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/533239))

## Grammar

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