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# arbitrary — English to French

How English *arbitrary* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [arbitrary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arbitrary/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: arbitrary (38 763). By style: everyday 10 · literary 1 · parliamentary 777 · legal and administrative 667 · UN documents 37 308.

## arbitraire

Used about 31 705 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 745 · legal and administrative ≈ 639 · UN documents ≈ 30 313). Forms: arbitraire, arbitraires.

- If you do not conform to society's **arbitrary** rules, you will be shunned.
  Si tu ne te conformes pas aux règles **arbitraires** de la société, tu seras rejeté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5509211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5509211) [\#8862050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8862050))

- It all seems rather **arbitrary**.
  Il s'ensuit un certain degré d'**arbitraire**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1849470)

- Absence of **arbitrary** discrimination
  Absence de discrimination **arbitraire**
  ([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 804836)

- Working Group on **Arbitrary** Detention
  Groupe de travail sur la détention **arbitraire**
  ([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 25821976)

- C++0x will admit template functions that take an **arbitrary** number of arguments.
  Le C++0x permet des patrons de fonctions prenant un nombre **arbitraire** d'arguments.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#726969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/726969) [\#726966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/726966))

## détention

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1).

- “I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, 1799, in regard to **arbitrary** detention.”
  --Je vous rappelle, à vous, l'article quatre-vingt-un de la loi du 13 décembre 1799 sur la **détention** arbitraire.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4411)

## More sentences

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

- Lemma 5 cannot be generalized to **arbitrary** artinian rings.
  Le lemme 5 ne peut pas être généralisé pour les anneaux artiniens quelconques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and jerom · checked, community translation · [\#387014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/387014) [\#416311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/416311))

- No one shall be subjected to **arbitrary** arrest, detention or exile.
  Nul ne peut être arbitrairement arrêté, détenu ou exilé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and RaspaKrusto · checked, community translation · [\#554659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/554659) [\#788341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/788341))

- However, **arbitrary** limitations should not be placed on discovering the origins of diseases and disabilities, and on curing and preventing them.
  Il ne faut pourtant pas fixer à la légère des limites à l'élucidation des origines des maladies et des handicaps, à leur guérison et leur prévention.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1617933)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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