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# citizen — English to French

How English *citizen* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: citizen (27 838), citizens (141 603). By style: everyday 117 · literary 18 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 43 126 · legal and administrative 6 390 · UN documents 119 784.

## citoyen

Used about 118 116 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 36 388 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 260 · UN documents ≈ 77 361). Forms: citoyen, citoyens.

- I am a Roman **citizen**.
  Je suis **citoyen** romain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jerom and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#432966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/432966) [\#1188514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1188514))

- “Welcome, **citizen**.”
  --**Citoyen**, soyez le bienvenu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25759)

- But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a **citizen** of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
  Je suis Juif, reprit Paul, de Tarse en Cilicie, **citoyen** d’une ville qui n’est pas sans importance. Permets-moi, je te prie, de parler au peuple.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 21:39)

- No European **citizen** voted for this man.
  Aucun **citoyen** européen n'a voté pour cet homme.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1580097)

- The **citizen** in the European Union
  Les **citoyens** dans l'Union européenne
  ([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 866391)

## ressortissant

Used about 6 190 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 198 · UN documents ≈ 4 991).

- Are you a non-**citizen**?
  Es-tu non-**ressortissant** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6896742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6896742) [\#6997009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6997009))

- Family relationship with an EU, EEA or CH **citizen**
  Lien de parenté avec un **ressortissant** de l’Union européenne, de l’EEE ou de la Confédération suisse
  ([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 1890245)

- Mounir Mabrouk Bashir, a 34-year-old **citizen** of Tunisia, was arrested in July 2005 and convicted to 15 years &apos; imprisonment in August 2006.
  16. M. Mounir Mabrouk Bashir, **ressortissant** tunisien âgé de 34 ans, a été arrêté en juillet 2005 et condamné à quinze ans de prison en août 2006.
  ([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 27537123)

- A mediator shall not be a **citizen** of either Party, unless the Parties agree otherwise.
  Le médiateur n'est pas un **ressortissant** de l'une des parties, sauf convention contraire des parties.
  ([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 168832)

- On 18 April 1997, the Court of Appeal/City Court rejected the appeal on the same ground that the author was a foreign **citizen**.
  Le 18 avril 1997, la cour d &apos; appel (tribunal municipal) a rejeté le recours pour le même motif, c &apos; est-à-dire que l &apos; auteur était un **ressortissant** étranger.
  ([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 18120193)

## droit

Used about 3 743 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 743).

- Every **citizen** has the right to address the media and to express opinions and convictions openly.
  Toute personne a le **droit** de s &apos; exprimer dans les médias et de faire connaître sa pensée et ses opinions.
  ([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 27670037)

- National priority or target: To strengthen the rule of law, expand the exercise of democracy and improve security for the **citizens**.
  Priorité/ objectif national : Renforcement de l &apos; état de **droit**, accroissement de l &apos; exercice de la démocratie et amélioration de la sécurité publique
  ([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 15311007)

- 154. The Emigration Act grants the right to apply for an emigration passport exclusively to **citizens** of Georgia who have reached their majority (art. 7).
  154. La loi sur l &apos; émigration reconnaît le **droit** de demander un permis d &apos; émigration aux seuls ressortissants géorgiens majeurs (art. 7).
  ([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 4931054)

## More sentences

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

- She is a British **citizen**, though she was born in France.
  Elle est citoyenne britannique, bien qu'elle soit née en France.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10605005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10605005) [\#10612494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10612494))

- Zira is a Kabyle **citizen**.
  Zira est une citoyenne kabyle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rafik · checked, community translation · [\#10030187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10030187) [\#9110579](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9110579))

- She's a law-abiding **citizen**.
  C'est une citoyenne respectueuse des lois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1768710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1768710) [\#1778083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1778083))

## 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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