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# problème — French to English

How French *problème* 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: problème (179 579), problèmes (287 366). By style: everyday 2 229 · literary 12 · parliamentary 66 166 · legal and administrative 9 395 · UN documents 389 143.

## problem

Used about 262 311 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 858 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 52 381 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 383 · UN documents ≈ 202 679). Forms: problem, problems. Meaning: [problem in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/problem/).

- C'est nous le **problème**.
  We're the **problem**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4495085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4495085) [\#10586862](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10586862))

- Deuxième **problème**: La répartir.
  Second **problem**: To share it.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18275)

- Quels **problèmes**, quels projets?
  What projects, what **problems**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1969919)

- l'historique des **problèmes** environnementaux.
  history of environmental **problems**.
  ([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 4373824)

- Applicabilité Aucun **problème** prévu.
  No **problem** of enforcement is foreseen.
  ([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 17326507)

## issues

Used about 93 061 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · parliamentary ≈ 6 203 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 664 · UN documents ≈ 85 125). Forms: issue, issues.

- Yanni a de sérieux **problèmes**.
  Yanni has serious **issues**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9281061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9281061) [\#12480593](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480593))

- Passons donc à autre chose et attachons-nous aux **problèmes** importants.
  So move on and deal with **issues** which are important.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1398685)

- Type de **problème** constaté \[43\]
  Type of **issue** found \[43\]
  ([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 3114834)

- Liste préliminaire des **problèmes** et présentation sous forme de tableau
  Preliminary listing of **issues** and chart representation
  ([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 3987913)

- Nous avons des **problèmes** auxquels nous devons faire face.
  We have **issues** we have to deal with.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5607351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5607351) [\#11758474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11758474))

## More sentences

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

- Quel est le **problème** à être nue ?
  What's wrong with being naked?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2204519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2204519) [\#2206175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2206175))

- Me lever à six heures ne me pose pas de **problème**.
  Getting up at six o'clock is okay for me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Delapouite and sctld · checked, community translation · [\#755148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/755148) [\#1398767](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1398767))

- Nous avons peut-être un **problème** ici.
  We may have a situation here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3313018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3313018) [\#6083160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6083160))

## 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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