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# transition — French to English

How French *transition* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: transition (104 926), transitions (846). By style: everyday 8 · literary 8 · parliamentary 3 082 · legal and administrative 5 416 · UN documents 97 258.

## transition

Used about 102 949 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 795 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 908 · UN documents ≈ 95 232). Forms: transition, transitional, transitions. Meaning: [transition in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/transition/).

- La **transition** ne sera pas facile.
  The **transition** won't be easy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1522468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522468) [\#1523323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1523323))

- Bon! à bientôt les terrains de l'époque de **transition**, et alors...»
  Ah! presently we shall come to the **transition** period, and then--"
  ([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 3837)

- Les **transitions** représentent toujours une opportunité.
  **Transitions** are always an opportunity.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1328099)

- Chef de l'État de la **transition**
  Chef de l'Etat de la **transition**
  ([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 145403)

- **Transitions** to New Technologies
  **Transitions** to New Technologies
  ([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 12330295)

## countries

Used about 36 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 36).

- Le niveau de financement et de provision pour les besoins médicaux dans les pays en **transition** est, cependant, beaucoup, beaucoup plus bas.
  The level of funding and provision for medical needs in **countries** which are undergoing transformation is, however, far, far lower.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1471434)

## More sentences

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

- C'est une **transition** parfaite vers le sujet que je souhaite aborder au cours de cette réunion.
  That's a perfect segue to the topic that I would like to cover in this meeting.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ToxicFriu · checked, community translation · [\#10619630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10619630) [\#10619631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10619631))

- Je suis en cours de **transition** pour devenir un éléphant. j'ai programmé la chirurgie pour changer mon nez en trompe. Je vous défie de ne jamais plus me nommer humain !
  I’m in the process of transitioning to become an elephant. I planned surgery to get a trunk, in place of my nose. Don’t you dare call me a human anymore.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13171390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13171390) [\#13310482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13310482))

- Sur la question d’une **transition** linéaire ou progressive, la Commission ne manifeste pas de préférence particulière dans la proposition.
  On the question of linear or progressive taxation, the Commission does not express any preference in the proposal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 842428)

## 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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