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# selon — French to English

How French *selon* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: selon (435 272). By style: everyday 309 · literary 28 · biblical 660 · parliamentary 24 269 · legal and administrative 69 971 · UN documents 340 035.

## according

Used about 144 070 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 109 · literary ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 371 · parliamentary ≈ 2 528 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 697 · UN documents ≈ 113 345).

- Il agit **selon** mon conseil.
  He acts **according** to my advice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and saasmath · checked, community translation · [\#453325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453325) [\#453503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453503))

- Elle se développe éternellement sur le sol **selon** la même loi.
  It is eternally developed upon the soil **according** to the same law.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1785)

- Ne jugez pas **selon** l’apparence, mais jugez **selon** la justice.
  Don’t judge **according** to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:24)

- Le Conseil a décidé de maintenir ce dialogue, et même de l’intensifier **selon** les orientations approuvées.
  The Council decided to maintain this dialogue and indeed intensify it **according** to the agreed guidelines.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 705005)

- Prêts accordés **selon** les conditions du MCE II
  Lending **according** to the ERM II conditions
  ([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 2324210)

## More sentences

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

- Le Moyen Âge est **selon** moi l'époque la plus intéressante.
  The Middle Ages is the most interesting epoch in my opinion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13931989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931989) [\#13931990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931990))

- **Selon** moi, ce n'est pas une bonne idée.
  In my opinion that isn't a good idea.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and belvis · checked, community translation · [\#10620742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10620742) [\#448310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/448310))

- Il y a une rumeur **selon** laquelle il aurait démissionné.
  There is a rumor that he has resigned.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Luornu · checked, community translation · [\#283802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283802) [\#11516496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11516496))

## 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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