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# tendance — French to English

How French *tendance* 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: tendance (39 192), tendances (43 119). By style: everyday 127 · literary 1 · parliamentary 4 060 · legal and administrative 4 172 · UN documents 73 951.

## trends

Used about 58 552 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 1 692 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 694 · UN documents ≈ 53 152). Forms: trend, trends.

- Il est temps d'inverser la **tendance**.
  It's time to reverse the **trend**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#12367796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12367796) [\#12367797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12367797))

- Ils permettent de détecter certaines **tendances**.
  They enable certain **trends** to be identified.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 855433)

- Données et **tendances** générales
  General data and **trends**
  ([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 2069224)

- A. **Tendances** des courants d &apos; échange
  A. **Trends** in trade flows
  ([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 16102290)

- Ces **tendances** sont antérieures à la pandémie.
  These **trends** predate the pandemic.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12345145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12345145) [\#12345146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12345146))

## tend

Used about 7 875 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 719 · legal and administrative ≈ 174 · UN documents ≈ 6 933). Forms: tend, tendency. Meaning: [tend in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/tend/).

- J'ai **tendance** à en douter.
  I **tend** to doubt it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5757554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5757554) [\#13395346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13395346))

- Mais cette **tendance**, peu marquée d'ailleurs, ne devait pas rassurer le professeur, car la nature des couches ne se modifiait pas, et la période de transition s'affirmait davantage.
  But this **tendency**, which was very trifling, could not do anything to reassure the Professor; for there was no change in the beds, and the transitional characteristics became more and more decided.
  ([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 1722)

- J'ai **tendance** à en douter.
  I **tend** to question that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1926420)

- La «Lammefjordsgulerod» est très lisse et très fragile, et a une très légère **tendance** à devenir grise une fois nettoyée.
  The ‘Lammefjordsgulerod’ carrot is very smooth and crisp and has very little **tendency** to turn grey after washing.
  ([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 3371709)

- Les femmes ont **tendance** à disposer de moins de ressources que les hommes.
  Women **tend** to have fewer resources than men.
  ([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 9001974)

## tendencies

Used about 2 821 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 508 · UN documents ≈ 2 311).

- Il est grand temps que les communistes révèlent à la face du monde entier leurs points de vue, leurs objectifs, leurs **tendances**, et qu'ils répondent à cette fable du spectre du communisme par un manifeste du parti en tant que tel.
  It is high time that communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their **tendencies**, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#7799805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7799805) [\#10137494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10137494))

- L'apparition de **tendances** est fort préoccupante.
  The emergence of **tendencies** is very worrying.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1225156)

- C. **Tendances** d &apos; extrême droite dans la population 171 45
  C. Right-wing extremist **tendencies** in the population 171 43
  ([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 18784661)

- Ces **tendances** doivent désormais être rassemblées dans un mouvement utile.
  Now the **tendencies** have to be linked into a purposeful movement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1067499)

- 84. Le Comité prend note de la volonté manifestée par l &apos; Etat partie de combattre les **tendances** xénophobes et les manifestations racistes.
  84. The Committee acknowledges the determination of the State party to prevent and combat xenophobic **tendencies** and manifestations of racism.
  ([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 1853680)

## More sentences

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

- John a **tendance** à se mettre en colère quand il ne fait pas ce qu'il veut.
  John tends to get angry when he doesn't have his own way.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CN · checked, community translation · [\#52571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52571) [\#3987695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3987695))

- Le vieux a **tendance** à exagérer.
  The old man tends to exaggerate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#43399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43399) [\#1114531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1114531))

- Il a **tendance** à trop parler.
  He tends to talk too much.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#290140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290140) [\#1156799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1156799))

## 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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