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# pression — French to English

How French *pression* 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: pression (62 878), pressions (18 230). By style: everyday 88 · literary 14 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 8 975 · legal and administrative 13 499 · UN documents 58 531.

## pressure

Used about 70 540 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 69 · literary ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 7 199 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 655 · UN documents ≈ 50 605). Forms: pressure, pressures. Meaning: [pressure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pressure/).

- Je suis toujours sous **pression**.
  I'm always under **pressure**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sushiman and CK · checked, community translation · [\#66083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/66083) [\#753292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/753292))

- —-Une **pression** considérable.
  "It says we are under considerable **pressure**."
  ([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 2175)

- Et l'Europe y ajoute une **pression** supplémentaire.
  And Europe is bringing additional **pressure** to bear.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1530280)

- Températures et **pressions** nominales
  Design temperatures and **pressures**
  ([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 5434791)

- A Citerne à **pression**
  A **Pressure** tank container
  ([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 29799396)

## test

Used about 610 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 610). Meaning: [test in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/test/).

- La citerne ne doit pas être sous **pression** pendant l &apos; essai.
  The tank shall not be pressurized during the **test**.
  ([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 12665531)

## More sentences

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

- Voulez-vous une bière **pression** ?
  Would you like a draught beer?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12264115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12264115) [\#12264117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12264117))

- Je ne veux pas que tu penses que je te mets la **pression** pour faire ça.
  I don't want you to feel that I'm pressuring you to do this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2042748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2042748) [\#10939608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10939608))

- Les petites entreprises ressentent la **pression** de l'inflation.
  Small enterprises are feeling the squeeze of inflation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#326112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/326112) [\#570461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/570461))

## 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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