Elamur: [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Parse](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/parse/) · [Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · **Translate** · [Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Groupants](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/) This page as HTML: # authorities — English to French How English *authorities* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences. What it means: [authorities in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/authorities/). Sentence pairs counted, by form: authorities (361 292). By style: everyday 20 · literary 5 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 17 597 · legal and administrative 93 566 · UN documents 250 100. ## autorités Used about 266 455 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 13 931 · legal and administrative ≈ 85 769 · UN documents ≈ 166 733). - The **authorities** should be notified. Il convient d'avertir les **autorités**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by phil9064 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12066233](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12066233) [\#4627198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4627198)) - Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to **authorities**, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, Rappelle-leur d’être soumis aux magistrats et aux **autorités**, d’obéir, d’être prêts à toute bonne œuvre, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 3:1) - We will continue to raise Tibet with the Chinese **authorities**. Nous continuerons à soulever la question du Tibet avec les **autorités** chinoises. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2934) - APPENDIX II COMPETENT **AUTHORITIES** APPENDICE II **AUTORITÉS** COMPÉTENTES ([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 214423) - Source: Based on information received from the competition **authorities**. Source: D ' après des informations communiquées par les **autorités** de la concurrence. ([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 26874148) ## pouvoirs Used about 28 523 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 833 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 848 · UN documents ≈ 20 842). - Why is everything not given to the judicial **authorities**? Pourquoi tout n'est-il pas confié aux **pouvoirs** judiciaires? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1496290) - Service and works contracts for all contracting **authorities** Marchés de services et de travaux pour tous les **pouvoirs** adjudicateurs ([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 245303) - Article 46: Every person has the right to communicate with the public **authorities**. Article 46: chacun a le droit de s ' adresser aux **pouvoirs** publics; ([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 25999091) - Local **authorities** must also freely give information when requested. Les **pouvoirs** locaux doivent aussi fournir des informations lorsqu' on leur demandera. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 171190) - The technical specifications drawn up by contracting **authorities**/entities need to allow procurement to be opened up to competition. Les spécifications techniques établies par les **pouvoirs** adjudicateurs ou entités adjudicatrices devraient permettre l’ouverture des marchés à la concurrence. ([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 1762075) ## compétentes Used about 5 210 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 210). - Judicial or administrative **authorities** with jurisdiction in matters covered in the Convention Instances judiciaires ou administratives **compétentes** en ce qui concerne les questions traitées dans la Convention ([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 22434678) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The racist Algerian **authorities** murdered 128 young Kabyle people who demanded the teaching of their language in 2001. Le pouvoir raciste algérien a assassiné 128 jeunes kabyles qui revendiquaient l'enseignement de leur langue en 2001. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belkacem77 and belkacem77 · checked, community translation · [\#8141112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8141112) [\#8141111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8141111)) - **Authorities** must justify their decisions as defined by law. Les instances doivent motiver leurs décisions tel que défini par la loi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12425929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12425929) [\#1675382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1675382)) - One of the secret instructions of the police **authorities** to their agents contains this article: “Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of emergency.” Une des instructions secrètes de la police aux agents contient cet article:--«Avoir toujours à portée une voiture de place, en cas». ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27758) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. [Submit a better translation or example](https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/submit/?pair=en-fr&word=authorities). Every example is quoted under its source's licence and credited with it; the rest of the site is open under the Elamur Cosmic License.