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# situation — French to English

How French *situation* 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: situation (570 348), situations (91 835). By style: everyday 498 · literary 30 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 49 511 · legal and administrative 39 307 · UN documents 572 834.

## situation

Used about 462 114 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 439 · literary ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 34 555 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 308 · UN documents ≈ 399 790). Forms: situation, situations. Meaning: [situation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/situation/).

- La **situation** s'améliore.
  The **situation** is improving.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4500228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500228) [\#7482594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7482594))

- Telle était la **situation**.
  Such was the **situation**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18529)

- Telle est la **situation**.
  That is the **situation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2044275)

- D. **SITUATION** SUR LE MARCHÉ DE L'UNION
  D. **SITUATION** ON THE UNION MARKET
  ([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 3667817)

- La **situation** au Moyen-Orient
  The **situation** in the Middle East
  ([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 16266078)

## emergency

Used about 19 149 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 241 · UN documents ≈ 17 901). Meaning: [emergency in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/emergency/).

- La préparation aux **situations** d'urgence nécessite une planification.
  **Emergency** preparedness requires planning.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#9076847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9076847) [\#9184712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9184712))

- préparation et réaction aux **situations** d’urgence;
  **emergency** preparedness and response,
  ([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 3830251)

- Informations et dernières nouvelles concernant les **situations** d &apos; urgence
  **Emergency** information and updates
  ([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 28442666)

- L'organisation doit examiner périodiquement ses procédures concernant la préparation et la réponse aux **situations** d'urgence (y compris la formation appropriée).
  The organisation must periodically review its **emergency** preparedness (including appropriate training) and its response procedures.
  ([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 4213463)

- Conformément à l’article 3 quinquies, la fréquence VHF d’urgence (121,500 MHz) est utilisée en cas de véritable **situation** d’urgence, y compris dans l’une des **situations** suivantes:
  As laid down in Article 3d, the VHF **emergency** channel (121,500 MHz) shall be used for genuine emergency purposes, including any of 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 5178051)

## take

Used about 12 450 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 516 · UN documents ≈ 11 934). Meaning: [take in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/take/).

- Il est possible de prévenir ce genre de **situations** lorsque la Commission et le Parlement agissent de manière adéquate, comme l'a dit M. Jarzembowski.
  Occurrences like this can be prevented when the Commission and Parliament **take** adequate action, as Mr Jarzembowski has said.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268046)

- Nous ajusterons en fonction des intérêts supérieurs du Pakistan notre réaction à l &apos; évolution de la **situation** dans les divers domaines liés à la défense.
  We will adjust ourselves in the best interest to Pakistan, as developments in various related areas **take** place.
  ([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 4848880)

- Compte tenu de la **situation** actuelle, la communauté internationale devrait prendre des mesures concertées en prenant en compte tous les éléments suivants :
  2. In the current circumstances, the international community should **take** action while considering the following elements in a coordinated way:
  ([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 21366464)

## More sentences

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

- Tom n'a aucune idée de la **situation**.
  Tom is very clueless about things.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8202996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8202996) [\#8203200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8203200))

- La **situation** est rapidement revenue sous contrôle.
  Things quickly got under control.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10766533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10766533) [\#11761973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11761973))

- As-tu la moindre idée de la **situation** dans laquelle tu nous mets ?
  Do you have any idea of the position you're putting us in?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3741677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3741677) [\#3745500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3745500))

## 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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