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# category — English to French

How English *category* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: categories (70 257), category (95 396). By style: everyday 13 · parliamentary 3 414 · legal and administrative 41 221 · UN documents 121 005.

## catégories

Used about 147 385 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 2 418 · legal and administrative ≈ 39 074 · UN documents ≈ 105 879). Forms: catégorie, catégories.

- How many **categories** are there?
  Combien y a-t-il de **catégories** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2196900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2196900) [\#2201495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2201495))

- We do not think in different **categories**.
  Nous ne pensons pas en différentes **catégories**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1908761)

- Species or **category** of animal
  Espèce animale ou **catégorie** d'animaux
  ([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 4330359)

- **Category** I e 3.5 mm
  **Catégorie** I e 3,5 mm
  ([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 12300603)

- How many **categories** are there?
  Combien de **catégories** y a-t-il ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2196900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2196900) [\#2201496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2201496))

## More sentences

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

- Therefore, the safeguards or anti-dumping measures must under no circumstances be put in the same **category** as protectionist instruments.
  Aussi les mesures de sauvegarde ou antidumping ne doivent en aucun cas être assimilées à des instruments protectionnistes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 862822)

- The margin for manoeuvre calculated from **Category** 5, as referred to in the Financial Perspective, is EUR 135 million.
  D'après les perspectives financières, la marge calculée pour la rubrique 5 est de 135 millions d'euros.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2019006)

- The costly, extremely artificial and bureaucratic **category** B licensing system will be abolished and the ACP countries compensated for lost income.
  Le système onéreux, très artificiel et bureaucratique des licences B est abandonné et compensé au niveau des revenus pour les pays ACP.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1857061)

## 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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