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# question — French to English

How French *question* 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: question (646 541), questione (10), questions (710 342). By style: everyday 1 859 · literary 87 · biblical 36 · parliamentary 108 498 · legal and administrative 37 270 · UN documents 1 209 143.

## question

Used about 363 545 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 723 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 53 119 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 035 · UN documents ≈ 296 582). Forms: question, questions. Meaning: [question in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/question/).

- Puis-je poser une **question** ?
  May I ask a **question**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SUZIE and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594) [\#3411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3411))

- Là était la **question**.
  That was the **question**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25961)

- Et ils n’osaient plus lui faire aucune **question**.
  They didn’t dare to ask him any more **questions**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:40)

- **Question** nº 5 de (H-0524/01) :
  **Question** No 5 by (H-0524/01):
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 216181)

- Les **questions** orientant la recherche sont les suivantes:
  Research **questions** are the following:
  ([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 4475822)

## issues

Used about 298 151 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 15 823 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 541 · UN documents ≈ 273 768).

- Nous devons nous pencher sur ces **questions**.
  We need to address those **issues**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9458343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9458343) [\#12240036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12240036))

- Celui-ci doit inclure toutes les **questions**.
  This must include all of the **issues**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318082)

- d'autres **questions** spécifiques propres au dossier.
  other case specific **issues**.
  ([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 4335484)

- D. Les **questions** transsectorielles
  D. Cross-cutting **issues**
  ([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 14622533)

- Je me limiterai donc aux principales **questions**.
  I will therefore focus on some of the main **issues**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 585362)

## ask

Used about 11 408 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 11 407). Meaning: [ask in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ask/).

- Ainsi parle l’Éternel des armées: Propose aux sacrificateurs cette **question** sur la loi:
  “The LORD of Armies says: **Ask** now the priests concerning the law, saying,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAG 2:11)

- Le Président suggère que la Commission, au lieu de renvoyer la **question** du Groupe de travail, demande au Secrétariat d &apos; harmoniser les deux méthodes.
  The Chair suggested that, instead of referring the matter to the Working Group, the Commission could **ask** the Secretariat to harmonize the two methods.
  ([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 25666369)

## More sentences

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

- La vie n'est qu'une **question** de remplir notre vide intérieur. Que ce soit le travail, l'alcool ou la musique, nous avons tous notre ersatz d'amour.
  Life is all about filling up the emptiness inside. Work, alcohol, music, we all have our substitutes for love.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1310498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1310498) [\#1310500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1310500))

- Voici mon point de vue sur la **question**.
  Here is my take on the matter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10479813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10479813) [\#10491519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10491519))

- Ce n'est pas une **question** d'argent.
  This is not about money.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1682766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1682766) [\#1684776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1684776))

## 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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