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# coastal — English to French

How English *coastal* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: coastal (23 146). By style: everyday 13 · parliamentary 1 313 · legal and administrative 1 805 · UN documents 20 015.

## côtières

Used about 15 737 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 067 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 316 · UN documents ≈ 13 343). Forms: côtier, côtiers, côtière, côtières.

- **Coastal** cities will take the brunt of the storm.
  Les villes **côtières** feront les frais de la tempête.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#874555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/874555) [\#874631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/874631))

- The Baltic States are small **coastal** States bordering on a powerful neighbour.
  Les pays baltes sont de petits États **côtiers** à l'ombre d'un voisin puissant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 95881)

- Atlantic **coastal** regions of Portugal
  Régions **côtières** atlantiques du Portugal
  ([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 2898549)

- XII. Advice to a **coastal** State
  Article 55 Avis fournis à un État **côtier**
  ([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 18805701)

- Zhejiang is a **coastal** province in East China.
  Le Zhejiang est une province **côtière** de l'est de la Chine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13953762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953762) [\#13953777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953777))

## coastal

Used about 4 170 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 170).

- **Coastal** Area Resource Development and Management Association
  **Coastal** Area Resource Development and Management Association
  ([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 12322362)

- Strengthened Environmental Management Information System for **Coastal** Development to meet Rio Convention Objectives
  Strengthened Environmental Management Information System for **Coastal** Development to meet Rio Convention Objectives
  ([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 28274224)

- The Nigerian coast: addressing the **coastal** impacts of climate change through Integrated **Coastal** Zone Management (ICZM).
  The Nigerian coast: Addressing the **coastal** Impacts of Climate Change through Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM).
  ([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 4263681)

- Finally, this project will help to evaluate the economic weight of these **coastal** wetlands, as well as the Mbe river basin.
  Finally, this project will help to evaluate the economic weight of these **coastal** wetlands, as well as the Mbe river basin.
  ([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 28341039)

- Vanuatu: R2R: Integrated Sustainable Land and **Coastal** Management (GEF ID: 5397, FAO, GEFTF: $5.3 million; Total Cost: $19.3 million)
  Vanuatu: R2R: Integrated Sustainable Land and **Coastal** Management (GEF ID: 5397, FAO, GEFTF: $5.3 million; Total Cost: $19.3 million)
  ([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 29954877)

## zones

Used about 178 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27 · legal and administrative ≈ 150).

- Realizing its mistake, the Commission presented to us a draft incorporating the **coastal** and maritime areas in the new Objective 2.
  Consciente de son erreur, la Commission nous a présenté un projet intégrant les **zones** dépendantes de la pêche dans le nouvel objectif 2.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1855234)

- Including all continental and **coastal** areas within its territory.
  Y compris toutes les **zones** continentales et littorales situées sur son territoire.
  ([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 533520)

- All continental and **coastal** areas within Great Britain,
  Toutes les **zones** continentales et littorales situées sur le territoire de la Grande-Bretagne,
  ([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 830553)

- in the Natura 2000 site of the North Sea **Coastal** Zone: in and outside zone II and III areas;
  dans la «Noordzeekustzone»: dans les secteurs des **zones** II et III;
  ([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 2535323)

- Great Britain \[2\] Including all continental and **coastal** areas within its territory. ,
  Grande-Bretagne \[2\] Y compris toutes les **zones** continentales et littorales situées sur son territoire.
  ([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 786279)

## eaux

Used about 92 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 55 · legal and administrative ≈ 38).

- As in other war situations, this makes it possible to plunder fish stocks in the **coastal** waters to a greater extent than had been agreed.
  Comme dans d’autres pays en guerre, cette situation offre une opportunité de piller encore davantage que ce qui était prévu les stocks de poisson des **eaux** territoriales.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541522)

- Common scoters feed on shellfish that they find in shallow **coastal** waters that will partially be lost due to the construction of Maasvlakte 2.
  La macreuse noire se nourrit de mollusques, qu'elle pêche dans les **eaux** peu profondes dont une partie se perdra lors de l'aménagement du deuxième projet Maasvlakte.
  ([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 1413727)

- The European Union leases fishing areas in the territorial waters and economic **coastal** zones of African countries on behalf of its own fishing fleets, particularly those from Spain and Portugal.
  L'Union européenne loue des lieux de pêche dans les **eaux** territoriales des pays africains au profit de ses propres flottes de pêche, avant tout les flottes espagnoles et portugaises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 397707)

## More sentences

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

- Harnessing the power of the tides could be very helpful to **coastal** communities.
  Exploiter la puissance des marées pourrait être très utile aux populations vivant sur le littoral.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4940817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4940817) [\#8872830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8872830))

- Ocean acidification is affecting the entire world’s oceans, including **coastal** estuaries and waterways.
  L'acidification des océans affecte les océans du monde entier, y compris les estuaires et les voies navigables.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6684672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6684672) [\#6684772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6684772))

- Maritime transport is of vital importance to Portugal, given our significant **coastal** area.
  Les transports maritimes sont cruciaux pour le Portugal, étant donné les nombreux kilomètres de côtes que compte le pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 748895)

## Grammar

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