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# critical — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: critical (87 775). By style: everyday 39 · literary 5 · parliamentary 4 387 · legal and administrative 4 104 · UN documents 79 240.

## critique

Used about 36 255 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 285 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 565 · UN documents ≈ 31 366). Forms: critique, critiques.

- Do not be so **critical**.
  Ne sois pas si **critique** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#51052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51052) [\#4854088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4854088))

- The moment was **critical**.
  L'instant était **critique**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24596)

- The situation in Darfur has been **critical** for four years.
  La situation au Darfour est **critique** depuis quatre ans.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 937887)

- CFV **critical** flow venturi
  Tube venturi à débit **critique** CFV
  ([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 423231)

- Workshop on **critical** limits for heavy metals
  Atelier sur les limites **critiques** pour les métaux lourds
  ([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 10667537)

## More sentences

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

- The military intelligence service gathers, analyzes, and disseminates information **critical** to national security.
  Le service de renseignement militaire collecte, analyse et diffuse des informations essentielles à la sécurité nationale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362870) [\#13362869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362869))

- My mission is of **critical** importance.
  Ma mission est d'une importance capitale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3583439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3583439) [\#12459375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12459375))

- James was in a **critical** condition.
  James était dans un état grave.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11504235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11504235) [\#11756664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756664))

## 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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