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# questions — French to English

How French *questions* 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: questions (710 342). By style: everyday 629 · literary 21 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 33 549 · legal and administrative 12 573 · UN documents 663 558.

## issues

Used about 347 078 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 9 785 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 501 · UN documents ≈ 331 779).

- 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)

## questions

Used about 156 878 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 616 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 15 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 619 · UN documents ≈ 138 241).

- Nous avons quelques **questions**.
  We have a few **questions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2545695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2545695) [\#7872239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7872239))

- Il accablait le médecin de **questions**.
  He overwhelmed the doctor with **questions**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28867)

- Salomon répondit à toutes ses **questions**, et il n’y eut rien que le roi ne sût lui expliquer.
  Solomon answered all her **questions**. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 10:3)

- J’ai reçu d’autres **questions** de procédure.
  Other procedural **questions** have been put to me.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 590173)

- 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)

## matters

Used about 63 157 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 194 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 667 · UN documents ≈ 55 297).

- Interventions d'une minute sur des **questions** politiques importantes
  One-minute speeches on **matters** of political importance
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1146312)

- modifiant l'annexe I (**Questions** vétérinaires et phytosanitaires) de l'accord EEE
  amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary **matters**) to the EEA Agreement
  ([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 39220)

- Finalisation de toutes les **questions** en suspens et achèvement des travaux
  Finalization of all outstanding **matters** and documents processing
  ([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 15842557)

- L'ordre du jour appelle une communication de la Commission sur des **questions** politiques, urgentes et d'importance majeure.
  The next item is a Commission communication on urgent political **matters** of major importance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767549)

- modifiant l’annexe I (**Questions** vétérinaires et phytosanitaires) de l’accord EEE
  amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary **matters**) to the EEA Agreement
  ([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 88465)

## answer

Used about 13 824 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 13 824). Meaning: [answer in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/answer/).

- Ces échanges ont été suivis d &apos; une séance de **questions**-réponses au cours de laquelle d &apos; autres participants ont aussi décrit leurs expériences nationales.
  This was followed by a question and **answer** session during which other participants also presented their national experiences.
  ([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 26538776)

## More sentences

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

- Jésus, voyant qu’il avait répondu avec intelligence, lui dit: Tu n’es pas loin du royaume de Dieu. Et personne n’osa plus lui proposer des **questions**.
  When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 12:34)

- Et il se détourna de lui pour s’adresser à un autre, et fit les mêmes **questions**. Le peuple lui répondit comme la première fois.
  He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:30)

- Il lui adressa beaucoup de **questions**; mais Jésus ne lui répondit rien.
  He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:9)

## 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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