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# characteristics — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: characteristics (47 416). By style: everyday 9 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 375 · legal and administrative 17 388 · UN documents 28 643.

## caractéristiques

Used about 39 369 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 089 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 388 · UN documents ≈ 20 886).

- China has Chinese **characteristics**.
  La Chine a des traits **caractéristiques** chinois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#2367530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367530) [\#2508165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2508165))

- These **characteristics** have to be borne in mind.
  Ces **caractéristiques** doivent être prises en considération.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 503306)

- **CHARACTERISTICS** OF MARKER BUOYS
  **CARACTÉRISTIQUES** DES BOUÉES DE MARQUAGE
  ([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 2369490)

- (b) **Characteristics** of the kernel
  b) **Caractéristiques** de l &apos; amande
  ([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 5506893)

- What is socialism with Chinese **characteristics**?
  C'est quoi le socialisme aux **caractéristiques** chinoises ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12975222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12975222) [\#12982885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12982885))

## More sentences

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

- The weather here has its own unique **characteristics**.
  Le temps ici a des particularités qui lui sont propres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#937980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/937980) [\#8119632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8119632))

- The weather here has its own unique **characteristics**.
  Le temps ici a ses propres particularités uniques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#937980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/937980) [\#937982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/937982))

- But this tendency, which was very trifling, could not do anything to reassure the Professor; for there was no change in the beds, and the transitional **characteristics** became more and more decided.
  Mais cette tendance, peu marquée d'ailleurs, ne devait pas rassurer le professeur, car la nature des couches ne se modifiait pas, et la période de transition s'affirmait davantage.
  ([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 1722)

## 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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