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# costa — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: costa (40 825), costas (108). By style: parliamentary 563 · legal and administrative 493 · UN documents 39 877.

## costa

Used about 38 730 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 476 · legal and administrative ≈ 454 · UN documents ≈ 37 800). Forms: costa, costas.

- Thank you very much, Mr Seixas da **Costa**.
  Merci beaucoup, Monsieur Seixas da **Costa**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 40413)

- Limone **Costa** d'Amalfi
  Limone **Costa** d’Amalfi
  ([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 304058)

- Sra. Irene Haydee **COSTAS**
  Sra. Irene Haydee **COSTAS**
  ([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 12328644)

- Thank you very much, Mr Seixas da **Costa**.
  - Merci beaucoup, Monsieur Seixas da **Costa**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 63695)

- THE REPUBLIC OF **COSTA** RICA,
  LA RÉPUBLIQUE DU **COSTA** RICA,
  ([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 377170)

## m

Used about 459 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 43 · UN documents ≈ 415).

- I shall immediately give the floor to Mr Seixas da **Costa**, President-in-Office of the Council.
  Je donne tout de suite la parole à **M**. le président en exercice du Conseil.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5249)

- Mrs. Nazareth A. Incera (**Costa** Rica)
  Mme Nazareth A. Incera **M**. Djamel Moktefi
  ([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 7629453)

- Mr Turchi tabled the amendment and since he has no objection to this, I shall put Amendment No 13, as amended by Mr **Costa** Neves, to the vote.
  **M**. Turchi est l'auteur de l'amendement et puisqu'il n'y voit pas d'objection, je mets aux voix l'amendement 13 ainsi modifié par notre rapporteur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 177846)

- I would also like to defend strongly the changes agreed in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs to Rule 45(2) that **Costas** Botopoulos has just spoken about.
  Je soutiens aussi fortement les modifications apportées par la commission des affaires constitutionnelles à l'article 45, paragraphe 2, dont **M**. Botopoulos vient de parler.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1265559)

- There is intense public concern about this case in Greece owing to the inhuman conditions in Egyptian prisons ( 3 by 4 metre cells housing 20 people) and the fact that **Costas** Kastanias' health has been irreparably damaged.
  L'affaire met en émoi l'opinion publique grecque : les conditions régnant dans les prisons égyptiennes sont inhumaines (prisons de trois mètres sur quatre, où croupissent vingt détenus) et la santé de **M**. Kostas Kastanias est irréversiblement altérée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 290126)

## ministre

Used about 9 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 9).

- Just a few days ago, Prime Minister **Costas** Simitis and Chancellor Schröder stated that the Union, for its part, would make a serious attempt to reach a positive conclusion at the forthcoming Summit in Helsinki.
  Il y a seulement quelques jours, le Premier **ministre** M. Simitis et le chancelier allemand M. Schröder ont déclaré que l' Union européenne s' efforcerait pour sa part sérieusement de parvenir à un résultat positif lors du futur Sommet d' Helsinki.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2014624)

## More sentences

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

- Mr **Costa** has experience of that.
  Je voudrais dire aussi à Mme Kratsa combien je la remercie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1043270)

- The Spanish **costas** are peopled by tens of thousands of bathers, the Finnish lakes by a few individuals.
  Les côtes espagnoles sont peuplées de dizaines de milliers de baigneurs, les lacs finlandais de quelques-uns.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 506559)

- Throughout this House all of us will have constituents, whatever our nationality, who have been suffering from abuses under the urbanisation law in the Spanish **Costas**, as indeed thousands of Spanish citizens are.
  Parmi cette Assemblée, nous avons tous, quelle que soit notre nationalité, des citoyens dans notre circonscription qui ont souffert - comme des milliers de citoyens espagnols - de ces abus perpétrés au nom des lois sur l'urbanisation des côtes espagnoles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1251218)

## 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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