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# centre — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: centre (211 344), centres (111 874). By style: everyday 90 · literary 24 · parliamentary 6 005 · legal and administrative 16 599 · UN documents 300 500.

## centre

Used about 296 843 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 85 · literary ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 4 316 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 833 · UN documents ≈ 278 589). Forms: centre, centres.

- Where's the shopping **centre**?
  Où est le **centre** commercial ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#11966053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11966053) [\#644377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/644377))

- "As far as the **centre** of the earth, Axel."
  —Oui, Axel, jusqu'au **centre** de la terre.»
  ([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 1003)

- (Applause from the **centre** and the left)
  (Applaudissements au **centre** et à gauche)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 431936)

- Help and care **centres**,
  **Centres** d'aide et de soins
  ([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 2846234)

- United Nations information **centres**
  **Centres** d &apos; information des Nations Unies
  ([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 27226078)

## More sentences

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

- What is the role of the national monitoring **centre** for human development?
  Quel est le rôle de l'Observatoire national du développement humain ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Tariqidufqqir · checked, community translation · [\#9938436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9938436) [\#9852675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9852675))

- She works in a garden **centre**.
  Elle travaille dans une jardinerie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#11232005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11232005) [\#13570607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13570607))

- She likes to take **centre** stage.
  Elle aime être sur le devant de la scène.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12217649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12217649) [\#12217711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12217711))

## 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

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