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# collective — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: collective (51 237), collectives (364). By style: everyday 7 · literary 2 · parliamentary 2 798 · legal and administrative 3 512 · UN documents 45 282.

## collective

Used about 40 126 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 994 · UN documents ≈ 34 905). Forms: collectif, collectifs, collective, collectives, collectivités.

- **Collective** rules are not set straightaway but progressively win recognition.
  Les règles **collectives** ne sont pas fixées d'emblée mais s'imposent de manière progressive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1055786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1055786) [\#1055784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1055784))

- One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the **collective** title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, of the citizen to liberty.
  Un matin elle se dressa en face de la France, et, élevant la voix, elle contesta le titre **collectif** et le titre individuel, à la nation la souveraineté, au citoyen la liberté.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18008)

- But we must not forget **collective** rights.
  Mais il ne faut pas oublier les droits **collectifs**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 525178)

- IP **collective** rights management body
  Organisme de gestion **collective** des DPI
  ([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 4613399)

- (Art. 55) Right of **collective** bargaining
  Le droit de négociation **collective** (article 55);
  ([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 20758870)

## More sentences

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

- **Collective** responsibility means irresponsibility.
  Tous responsables, pas de responsable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kotobaboke and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#373270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/373270) [\#812009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/812009))

- Mr President, a key **collective** goal of the European Union has always been and will always be that of a single market.
  Monsieur le Président, un objectif commun clé de l’Union européenne a toujours été et restera l’établissement d’un marché unique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 572153)

- This is precisely the sense of the text being tabled, which calls, in practical terms, for the individual abuses of power to be concealed behind **collective** guilt.
  Or, c'est précisément le sens du texte déposé, qui appelle pratiquement à dissimuler les abus de pouvoir individuels derrière une responsabilité solidaire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1579418)

## 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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