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# structure — French to English

How French *structure* 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: structure (86 839), structures (60 038). By style: everyday 29 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 7 600 · legal and administrative 17 289 · UN documents 121 956.

## structure

Used about 117 035 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 6 413 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 047 · UN documents ≈ 96 549). Forms: structure, structures. Meaning: [structure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/structure/).

- Le cerveau a une **structure** complexe.
  The brain has a complex **structure**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#4546515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4546515) [\#4546512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4546512))

- Aux schistes succédèrent les gneiss, d'une **structure** stratiforme, remarquables par la régularité et le parallélisme de leurs feuillets, puis, les micaschistes disposés en grandes lamelles rehaussées à l'oeil par les scintillations du mica blanc.
  To the schists succeeded gneiss, partially stratified, remarkable for the parallelism and regularity of its lamina, then mica schists, laid in large plates or flakes, revealing their lamellated **structure** by the sparkle of the white shining mica.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1898)

- La **structure** de la flotte y est subordonnée.
  The fleet **structure** is secondary to this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 318898)

- **Structure** de la formation:
  **Structure** of the training:
  ([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 2500350)

- Section II. Création et **structure**
  Section II. Establishment and **structure**
  ([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 7344509)

## More sentences

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

- La **structure** de la maison devrait être terminée d'ici un ou deux jours.
  The frame of the house should be finished in a day or two.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by THURET and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2253237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2253237) [\#3660493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3660493))

- C'est une **structure** grammaticale archaïque.
  This is an archaic grammatical construction.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6033823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6033823) [\#9011815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9011815))

- Le coccyx est une **structure** vestigiale.
  The coccyx is a vestigial trait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11691537](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11691537) [\#13899238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13899238))

## 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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