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# european — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: european (854 845), europeans (6 103). By style: everyday 125 · literary 4 · parliamentary 273 148 · legal and administrative 330 958 · UN documents 256 713.

## européenne

Used about 751 761 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 110 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 250 386 · legal and administrative ≈ 303 378 · UN documents ≈ 197 883). Forms: europe, européen, européenne, européens.

- Do you like **Europeans**?
  Aimes-tu les **Européens** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#4696551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4696551) [\#6447054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6447054))

- A whole **European** system crumbled away.
  Tout un système d'**Europe** croula.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7564)

- That is why the **Europeans** need to play a part.
  C'est la raison pour laquelle les **Européens** ont un rôle à jouer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 488447)

- THE COUNCIL OF THE **EUROPEAN** UNION,
  LE CONSEIL DE L'UNION **EUROPÉENNE**,
  ([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 3916032)

- **European** Union of Public Relations
  Union **européenne** de relations publiques
  ([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 24919432)

## union

Used about 11 641 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 845 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 447 · UN documents ≈ 5 348).

- It is naturally also a joint task which we should tackle - as far as possible - within the framework of the **European** Union.
  Il s'agit naturellement aussi d'une tâche commune que nous devons effectuer - tant bien que mal - dans le cadre de l'**Union**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1941243)

- The EUCTP shall provide access to the Specific Trader Portals of the trans-**Europeans** systems EBTI, AEO, and INF referred to in Article 24, Article 38 and Article 67, respectively, as well as to the Shared Trader Interface for ICS2 referred to in Article 45.
  Le portail des douanes de l’**Union** destiné aux opérateurs donne accès aux portails spécifiques destinés aux opérateurs des systèmes transeuropéens RTCE, OEA et INF visés respectivement à l’article 24, à l’article 38 et à l’article 67, ainsi qu’à l’interface opérateurs partagée dans le cadre de l’ICS2 visée à l’article 45.
  ([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 5380724)

- Comparative Study of Corporate Governance Codes to the **European** Union and Member States.
  Comparative Study of Corporate Governance Codes to the European **Union** and Member States.
  ([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 9757063)

- The representative of Belgium (on behalf of the **European** Union) made a statement in connection with the statement he delivered at the 9th meeting.
  Le représentant de la Belgique (au nom de l’**Union** europé-enne) fait une déclaration concernant son intervention faite à la 9e séance.
  ([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 4164967)

## More sentences

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

- **European** currencies weakened against the dollar.
  Les monnaies européennes se sont affaiblies face au dollar.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Petro1 · checked, community translation · [\#25655](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25655) [\#9745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9745))

- The expansion of the Roman empire wiped out a great number of the original **European** languages.
  L'expansion de l'empire romain a pour ainsi dire annihilé une partie significative des langues européennes originelles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7773635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7773635) [\#1223914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1223914))

- I saw a **European** turtle-dove in North Africa.
  J'ai vu une tourterelle des bois en Afrique du Nord.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by akselamazigh and akselamazigh · checked, community translation · [\#8394119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8394119) [\#8394111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8394111))

## 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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