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# essential — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: essential (134 907), essentials (656). By style: everyday 69 · literary 2 · parliamentary 16 240 · legal and administrative 13 991 · UN documents 105 261.

## essentiel

Used about 67 036 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 11 334 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 699 · UN documents ≈ 44 955). Forms: essentiel, essentielle, essentielles, essentiels.

- Salt is **essential** to life.
  Le sel est **essentiel** à la vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#9867657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9867657) [\#9867660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9867660))

- You know the **essential** points.
  L'**essentiel**, vous le savez.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30339)

- So much for the **essentials**.
  Voilà pour l'**essentiel**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1880572)

- **Essential** oil of cinnamomum zeylanicum
  Huile **essentielle** de Cinnamomum zeylanicum
  ([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 1326283)

- Remedying such inequities is **essential**.
  Il est **essentiel** de remédier à de telles inégalités.
  ([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 22891393)

## indispensable

Used about 11 303 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 015 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 9 868).

- An adapter is **essential**.
  Un adaptateur est **indispensable**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11958891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958891) [\#11958916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958916))

- A compulsory notification procedure is **essential** in order to guarantee minimum levels of official control.
  La notification obligatoire des produits est **indispensable** pour garantir un contrôle minimum des autorités compétentes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 155541)

- It is **essential** for the Commission to have the necessary information at its disposal before the adoption of technical provisions.
  Il est **indispensable** que la Commission dispose des informations nécessaires avant l'adoption de dispositions techniques.
  ([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 3556707)

- A more transparent process for the appointment of member States to the Board is **essential**.
  Il est **indispensable** que le processus de nomination des États membres du Conseil des Gouverneurs soit plus transparent.
  ([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 1660183)

- Water is **essential** to life.
  L'eau est **indispensable** à la vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#270818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270818) [\#180686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180686))

## éléments

Used about 375 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 206).

- Our President-in-Office, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, without a backward glance at the voters of France and Holland, is determined to bring it back in all its **essentials**.
  Notre présidente en exercice, la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, sans se soucier des électeurs français et néerlandais, est déterminée à en ramener les principaux **éléments** à la vie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 914862)

- These advanced training programmes will include topics on the principles and **essentials** of stockpile management; risk management; ammunition accounting; transport; and security and destruction.
  Ces programmes de formation avancée comprendront des **éléments** consacrés aux principes et notions fondamentales de la gestion des stocks; la gestion des risques; la comptabilité des munitions; les transports; ainsi que la sécurité et la destruction des stocks.
  ([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 2267445)

## More sentences

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

- The sun is **essential** to life.
  Le soleil est très important pour la vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#275140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275140) [\#5571061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5571061))

- Just do the **essential** repairs, please.
  Ne faites que les réparations nécessaires, s'il vous plaît.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tamy and Tamy · checked, community translation · [\#1796063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1796063) [\#1796054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1796054))

- Clay is the **essential** ingredient in making pottery.
  La terre glaise est le composant primordial pour faire de la poterie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#278610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/278610) [\#1504387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1504387))

## 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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