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# section — French to English

How French *section* 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: section (196 650), sectione (1), sections (26 552). By style: everyday 17 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 202 · legal and administrative 39 155 · UN documents 182 827.

## sections

Used about 189 617 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 038 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 892 · UN documents ≈ 152 670). Forms: section, sections.

- Où est la **section** des hommes ?
  Where's the men's **section**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fleur74 and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#687684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/687684) [\#3627428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3627428))

- --«...Il faut que le comité prenne des mesures pour empêcher le recrutement dans les **sections** pour les différentes sociétés...»
  The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the **sections** for the different societies.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18412)

- **Section** V, Cour des comptes
  **Section** V, Court of Auditors
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 111643)

- **sections** H, I et J,
  **Sections** H, I and J;
  ([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 1830161)

- Il comprend six **sections**.
  The report is organized into six **sections**.
  ([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 25357475)

## b

Used about 1 885 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 885). Meaning: [b in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/).

- Le projet de loi contre le terrorisme (voir le paragraphe 1.2.3 de la **section** B ci-dessus) constituera un cadre juridique complet en la matière.
  The Anti-Terrorism Bill (see point **B**.1.2.3 above) will provide a comprehensive legal framework to address this issue.
  ([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 9577966)

## ii

Used about 1 885 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 885). Meaning: [ii in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ii/).

- Les **sections** A, B et C de l’annexe II traitent en détail des prévisions de dépenses.
  Further analysis in respect of the cost estimates is included in annex **II**.A, B and C. Annex II.A provides mission-specific recurrent costs.
  ([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 5605233)

## vi

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

- C'est pourquoi je ne peux que vous recommander d'approuver les **sections** VI et VII du budget rectificatif et supplémentaire nº 3.
  I therefore recommend that items **VI** and VII of Draft Supplementary and Amending Budget no. 3 be adopted.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 216627)

## More sentences

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

- Est-ce la **section** art ?
  Is this the art department?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3731880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3731880) [\#3852782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3852782))

- C'est le chef de notre **section**.
  He is the boss of our department.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and popball · checked, community translation · [\#3802225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3802225) [\#10616855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10616855))

- Pendant quatre ans, j'ai été juge auprès de la cinquième **section** pénale de la cour de cassation italienne devant laquelle se traitent les cas de diffamation.
  Please indulge me: I was a criminal judge for four years in the Fifth criminal division of the Court of Cassation, where we judged the crime of libel.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1287375)

## Grammar

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