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# delegates — English to French

How English *delegates* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: delegates (24 538). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 257 · legal and administrative 329 · UN documents 23 950.

## délégués

Used about 8 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 86 · legal and administrative ≈ 226 · UN documents ≈ 8 482).

- The **delegates** voted immediately.
  Les **délégués** votèrent sur-le-champ.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#804314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804314) [\#4434671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4434671))

- That is the most important message this Parliament can give the Pittsburgh **delegates**.
  Voilà le message le plus important que ce Parlement peut délivrer aux **délégués** de Pittsburgh.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1279660)

- MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION AND **DELEGATES**
  MEMBRES DE L’INSTITUTION ET **DÉLÉGUÉS**
  ([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 3787404)

- North **Delegates** &apos; Lounge
  Salon Nord des **délégués**
  ([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 19600893)

- It had a good ethnic balance and there was a significant number of women among the **delegates**.
  Elle était équilibrée sur le plan ethnique et comptait un nombre important de femmes parmi les **délégués**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 349425)

## représentants

Used about 6 041 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 32 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 5 987).

- **Delegates** from many countries participated in the conference.
  Des **représentants** de nombreux pays ont participé à la conférence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#274962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274962) [\#731129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/731129))

- Greece has twelve **delegates**.
  La Grèce a douze **représentants**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1800680)

- The co-chairs may be represented by their respective **delegates** as provided in paragraph 3 of Article 22.1 of the Agreement.
  Les coprésidents peuvent être représentés par leurs **représentants** respectifs, conformément à l'article 22.1, paragraphe 3, de l'accord.
  ([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 4812307)

- The minimum number of members proposed by some **delegates** was 10.
  Pour certains **représentants**, ce nombre ne devrait pas être inférieur à 10.
  ([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 369457)

- Eventually, it appeared possible to reach agreement about the **delegates** who will be seated on the National Council.
  Un accord a finalement pu y être obtenu concernant les **représentants** qui siégeront au Conseil national.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 606653)

## More sentences

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

- The less amusing aspect of the conflict we are engaged in today is that there are several hundred **delegates** sitting here who are actually willing to accept this without protest!
  L'aspect moins réjouissant de ce conflit est que quelques centaines de députés sont assis dans cette enceinte et acceptent cela sans piper mot.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 69536)

- Finally, the proposal does not address the real task, but **delegates** it to a comitology committee.
  Enfin, la proposition ne résout pas le problème, mais le délègue à un comité de comitologie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 948369)

- At the moment, I am more interested in protected areas for **delegates**, but that is another matter.
  En ce moment, mon intérêt porte plutôt sur des sites protégés pour parlementaires, mais ce n' est pas de cela que nous discutons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 24780)

## Grammar

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