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By style: everyday 10 · literary 2 · parliamentary 307 · legal and administrative 318 · UN documents 21 159. ## coutumier Used about 8 677 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 19 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 · UN documents ≈ 8 636). - In Asian culture it's **customary** to take one's shoes off before entering a house or temple. Dans la culture asiatique, il est **coutumier** de retirer ses chaussures avant d'entrer dans une maison ou dans un temple. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#608950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/608950) [\#817255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817255)) - Nevertheless, Africa is not traditionally considered a continent where it is **customary** to sell children. L' Afrique n' est cependant pas une partie du monde où il est **coutumier** de vendre les enfants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 195020) - The readmission of own nationals is an obligation under international **customary** law, with which all States are required to comply. La réadmission de ses propres ressortissants est une obligation en droit international **coutumier** que tous les États doivent respecter. ([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 4088854) - Under **customary** law polygamy is not prohibited. En droit **coutumier** la polygamie n ' est pas prohibée. ([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 16865846) - Systems in which the rules are based on usage, such as languages or **customary** law, are condemned to become absurd, cumbersome and contradictory, since every time a small error slips into one of their usages, it is integrated into the rules, by definition, for eternity. The more users are ignorant, the more systems degrade rapidly. English, poorly used by millions of people, natives or not, for centuries, is an example of the degradation of a system at terminal stage, no longer presenting any logic, neither in its syntax, nor its grammar, nor its vocabulary or its pronunciation. Similarly, with **customary** rights becoming too cumbersome and incomprehensible, the states which rely on them tend to switch to prescriptive law. Les systèmes dont les règles sont basées sur l'usage, tels que les langues ou les droits coutumiers, sont condamnés à devenir absurdes, pesants et contradictoires, puisque chaque fois que la moindre erreur se glisse dans un de leurs usages, elle s'intègre aux règles, par définition, pour l'éternité. Plus les utilisateurs sont des béotiens, plus les systèmes se dégradent rapidement. L'anglais, mal utilisé par des millions de gens, natifs ou pas, depuis des siècles, est un exemple de dégradation du système au stade terminal, ne présentant plus aucune logique, ni dans la syntaxe, ni dans la grammaire, ni dans le vocabulaire ou la prononciation. De même, le droit **coutumier** devenant trop lourd et incompréhensible, les états qui s'appuyaient dessus tendent à passer à un droit prescrit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6841089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6841089) [\#1258105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1258105)) ## usage Used about 2 686 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 2 591). - It's **customary**. C'est l'**usage**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11180960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11180960) [\#11185218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11185218)) - All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was **customary** to make this detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had himself passed through that barrier. Tout à coup il porta la main à son front, geste habituel de ceux auxquels la mémoire revient subitement; il se souvint que c'était là l'itinéraire en effet, que ce détour était d'**usage** pour éviter les rencontres royales toujours possibles sur la route de Fontainebleau, et que, trente-cinq ans auparavant, il avait passé par cette barrière-là. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19718) - It is **customary** for votes on appointments to be taken by secret ballot. Il est d'**usage**, lorsque nous nous prononçons sur des nominations, de le faire au scrutin secret. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1844256) - It is **customary** for real heights to be measured vertically in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane. Il est d'**usage** que les hauteurs réelles soient mesurées verticalement dans une direction perpendiculaire au plan horizontal. ([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 3554303) - After the **customary** exchange of courtesies, he declared the fifth session closed. Après l ' échange de compliments d ' **usage**, le Président prononce la clôture de la cinquième session. ([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 15208926) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - It's **customary** for waiters and waitresses to introduce themselves using only their first names. Il est usuel chez les serveurs et les serveuses de se présenter en n'employant que leur prénom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1852457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1852457) [\#1852795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1852795)) - On Hanukkah it is **customary** to eat foods fried in oil. À Hanouka, il est de coutume de manger des aliments frits dans l’huile. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12200430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12200430) [\#12267287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12267287)) - This is **customary** in all societies. C'est habituel dans toutes les sociétés. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11157221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11157221) [\#12267302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12267302)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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