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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Morkus · checked, community translation · [\#5046465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5046465) [\#6018353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6018353)) - Finally a comment on the **British** Presidency. En guise de conclusion, une chose encore sur la présidence **britannique**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862134) - **British** Indian Ocean Territory, Territoire **britannique** de l'océan Indien, ([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 193272) - 40. In 1651, Suriname was a colony of the **British**. 40. En 1651, le Suriname était une colonie **britannique**. ([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 1228413) - He's got some very **British** phlegm. Il a un flegme très **britannique**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#873412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/873412) [\#873414](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/873414)) ## british Used about 5 468 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 466 · UN documents ≈ 5 002). - **British** Nuclear Fuels plc - BNFL **British** Nuclear Fuels plc — BNFL ([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 559856) - **British** Nuclear Fuels Limited **British** Nuclear Fuels Limited ([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 14145316) - **British** pendulum number (BPN) method Méthode de la valeur BPN (**British** Pendulum Number) ([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 5494495) - **British** Standards Institution (BSI) **British** Standards Institution (BSI) ([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 15786322) - Bulletin of the **British** Ornithologists'Club 204-217. Bulletin of the **British** Ornithologists' Club 204-217. ([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 988477) ## uni Used about 1 415 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 260 · UN documents ≈ 1 154). - In the UK, the **British** Jubilee Debt campaign are trying to mobilise politicians to support this. Au Royaume-**Uni**, la campagne tente de rallier les hommes politiques à cette cause. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 523395) - (l) Small piece of pottery found near **British** Embassy, 1973; l) Petite poterie découverte près de l ' ambassade du Royaume-**Uni** (1973); ([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 11026388) - Responsibility must first be laid overwhelmingly at the door of the Conservative **British** Governments of Mrs Thatcher and Mr Major. La responsabilité revient d'abord de façon écrasante aux gouvernements conservateurs du Royaume-**Uni** de Mme Thatcher et de M. Major. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1682248) - In January 2013, the **British** Ambassador in Madrid (accredited to Andorra) raised the issue. En janvier 2013, l ' Ambassadeur du Royaume-**Uni** en Espagne (avec accréditation en Andorre) a soulevé la question. ([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 27570283) - (Ms. Anderson, Ireland) We of course associate ourselves with the European Union statement earlier reported by the **British** Ambassador. Naturellement, nous faisons nôtre la déclaration qui a été faite précédemment par l ' ambassadeur du Royaume-**Uni** au nom de l ' Union européenne. ([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 4847110) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - This is an instance of modern **British** life. Voilà un exemple de la vie anglaise moderne. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and gasche · checked, community translation · [\#55805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55805) [\#427396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/427396)) - This shows that English isn't just for the **British** anymore. Cela montre que l'anglais n'est plus maintenant la langue des seuls habitants de l'Angleterre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeanne and mkacfr · checked, community translation · [\#460257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460257) [\#12658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12658)) - The **British** have a lot of respect for law and order. Les Anglais respectent beaucoup la loi et l'ordre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#26131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26131) [\#2307175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2307175)) ## 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. 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