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# commodity — English to French

How English *commodity* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 7 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: commodities (20 499), commodity (21 257). By style: everyday 9 · parliamentary 887 · legal and administrative 5 266 · UN documents 35 594.

## produits

Used about 27 077 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 317 · UN documents ≈ 25 583).

- Is Algeria a **commodity** exporter?
  L'Algérie est-elle un exportateur de **produits** de base ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10120494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10120494) [\#12493967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493967))

- The prices of basic **commodities** continue to increase.
  Les prix des **produits** de base continuent à augmenter.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1189711)

- Medicinal herbs and dried mushrooms as dry **commodities**
  Herbes médicinales et champignons lyophilisés (**produits** secs)
  ([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 1135543)

- International trade and **commodities**
  A. Commerce international et **produits** de base
  ([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 9742362)

- Algeria should become a **commodity** exporter.
  L'Algérie devrait devenir une exportatrice de **produits** de base.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#9453781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9453781) [\#12493970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493970))

## commerce

Used about 1 503 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 18 · UN documents ≈ 1 483).

- The **commodity** exchange attracts foreign investors.
  La Bourse de **commerce** attire des investisseurs étrangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406278) [\#13406277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406277))

- The export of fish is significantly more important to the developing world in trade terms than other **commodities** such as rice, coffee and tea.
  Les exportations de poisson sont considérablement plus importantes pour les pays en développement en termes de **commerce** que pour d'autres denrées comme le riz, le café ou le thé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1028972)

- International trade in goods and services and **commodities**
  **Commerce** international des biens et services
  ([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 3462156)

- Trade between us is worth almost EUR 1 200 million every day, representing roughly 37% of world trade in **commodities** and 45% of trade in services.
  Leur échange commercial s'élève à presque 1 200 millions d'euros chaque jour, ce qui représente approximativement 37 % du **commerce** mondial des biens et 45 % du commerce des services.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 301835)

- I. Rationale for multi-stakeholder partnerships for addressing **commodity** production, trade and related problems
  I. L &apos; intérêt de partenariats multipartites pour le règlement de problèmes liés à la production et au **commerce**
  ([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 25160822)

## premières

Used about 1 358 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 987 · UN documents ≈ 371).

- **Commodities** and related derivatives
  Matières **premières** et dérivés liés
  ([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 3348775)

- **Commodities** account for 80 per cent of Africa &apos; s export earnings, which have recorded a decline by 25 per cent from 1997 to 1999 owing to the fall in world **commodity** prices.
  Les matières **premières** qui procurent à l &apos; Afrique 80 % de ses recettes à l &apos; exportation ont perdu 25 % de leur valeur en 1997-1999 du fait de la chute des cours mondiaux.
  ([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 6877178)

- POSITIONS BY CATEGORY OF **COMMODITY**
  POSITIONS EN FONCTION DES CATÉGORIES DE MATIÈRES **PREMIÈRES**
  ([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 3662855)

- Section 2h — **Commodities** and emission allowances
  Section 2 h — Matières **premières** et quotas d'émission
  ([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 4245815)

- The administrator of a **commodity** benchmark shall:
  L'administrateur d'un indice de référence de matières **premières**:
  ([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 3997760)

## marchandise

Used about 1 063 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 878).

- Sales of this **commodity** are off to a good start.
  Les ventes de cette **marchandise** démarrent bien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6579463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6579463) [\#6561944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6561944))

- . (NL) Labour is still a **commodity**.
  Le travail reste une **marchandise**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 207769)

- **Commodity** code (HS code)
  Code **marchandise** (Code SH)
  ([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 1108659)

- The body and the human person are not **commodities**.
  Le corps, la personne ne sont pas une **marchandise**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 57189)

- **Commodity** code (CN code)
  Code **marchandise** (code SH)
  ([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 2106361)

## prix

Used about 807 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 9 · legal and administrative ≈ 55 · UN documents ≈ 742).

- The **commodity** market sets grain prices.
  La Bourse des marchandises fixe les **prix** des céréales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406281) [\#13406280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406280))

- This will discourage the vast supermarkets switching sources so that they can follow lower **commodity** prices.
  Ceci découragera les hypermarchés de changer les provenances de sorte qu'ils puissent adopter des **prix** moins élevés pour les denrées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1898174)

- At the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 the SRB started buying up stocks of primary aluminium from Chinese aluminium smelters, in order to stimulate the price of the **commodity**.
  Fin 2008 et début 2009, le SRB a commencé à acheter des stocks d’aluminium primaire auprès des fonderies d’aluminium chinoises afin de stimuler le **prix** de cette matière première.
  ([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 2932916)

- The health of the economy as a whole may depend on the prices that private-sector actors pay or receive for **commodities**.
  La bonne santé de l &apos; économie dans son ensemble peut dépendre des **prix** payés ou perçus par les agents du secteur privé.
  ([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 5482000)

- The extreme price movements previously suffered by **commodity** producers have started to affect manufacturers as well.
  Les oscillations extrêmes des **prix** dont avaient antérieurement souffert les producteurs, ont commencé à toucher également les industries manufacturières.
  ([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 8081777)

## base

Used about 618 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 28 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 371).

- Finally, as we know, music is not a **commodity**.
  Pour finir, comme nous le savons, la musique n'est pas un produit de **base**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 911748)

- **Commodity** PSF and specialty PSF
  Fibres discontinues de polyesters dites «de **base**» et fibres discontinues de polyesters dites «spécialisées»
  ([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 3180189)

- That applied particularly to the LDCs, most of which were single **commodity** exporting countries.
  C &apos; est vrai en particulier pour les pays les moins avancés qui sont tributaires des exportations d &apos; un seul produit de **base**.
  ([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 11643950)

- We should therefore be careful in making food an international trade **commodity** like any other.
  Nous devons donc nous garder de faire de la nourriture un produit de **base** comme un autre dans le commerce international.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1076869)

- Crude oil is a global **commodity** and its price is determined by supply and demand on a worldwide basis.
  Le pétrole brut est un produit de **base** mondial dont le cours est déterminé par l’offre et la demande à l’échelle du globe.
  ([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 5657517)

## matières

Used about 185 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 129 · legal and administrative ≈ 55).

- **Commodity** futures markets have become highly speculative.
  Les marchés à terme des **matières** premières sont devenus hautement spéculatifs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by siggg and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#1300780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1300780) [\#750952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750952))

- Employees are not **commodities**.
  Les employés ne sont pas des **matières** premières.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 729938)

- Food of animal origin and **commodities** with high fat content
  Denrées alimentaires d’origine animale et produits à forte teneur en **matières** grasses
  ([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 981277)

- The second sector is that of raw materials, particularly food **commodities**.
  Le deuxième secteur est celui des **matières** premières, et en particulier des matières premières alimentaires.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1479315)

- So we look forward to this communication on **commodities** which the Commission has promised.
  Nous attendons donc avec impatience cette communication sur les **matières** premières que nous a promise la Commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 449572)

## More sentences

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

- Sometimes water becomes a precious **commodity**.
  Parfois l'eau devient une denrée précieuse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#270840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270840) [\#1020677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1020677))

- Salt was a rare and costly **commodity** in ancient times.
  Le sel était une denrée rare et chère dans les temps anciens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Sbgodin · checked, community translation · [\#239874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239874) [\#8707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8707))

- Snacks are a high **commodity** here.
  Les casse-croûtes sont un produit important ici.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#9241395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9241395) [\#12493983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493983))

## 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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