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# geographical — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: geographical (52 395). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 1 983 · legal and administrative 12 972 · UN documents 37 438.

## géographiques

Used about 46 030 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 859 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 972 · UN documents ≈ 31 198). Forms: géographique, géographiques.

- The Internet backbone interconnects the most significant Internet traffic, routing it between different **geographical** sectors using very high-speed fibers.
  La dorsale Internet interconnecte le plus important du trafic Internet qu'elle achemine entre différents secteurs **géographiques** grâce à des fibres à très haut débit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13577316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13577316) [\#13577315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13577315))

- There is, of course, the **geographical** problem.
  Voyons tout d'abord le problème **géographique**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 115359)

- Countries and **geographical** areas
  Pays et zones **géographiques**
  ([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 2409576)

- Agustín Codazzi **Geographical** Institute
  Institut **géographique** Augustin Codazzi
  ([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 17106662)

- But of course the criteria cannot be **geographical**.
  Les critères ne peuvent bien sûr pas être **géographiques**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 387697)

## zones

Used about 821 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 780).

- And I am leaving aside such exotic places as the Azores or the Canaries which in **geographical** terms belong to the American and African continents respectively.
  Et je m'empresse de laisser de côté des **zones** telles que les Açores ou les Iles Canaries qui, géographiquement, appartiennent au continent américain et africain.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1659297)

- Consistent information in a pan-European context is difficult to obtain, and some **geographical** areas are poorly covered by ground-based monitoring.
  Il est difficile d &apos; obtenir des informations homogènes dans un contexte paneuropéen, et certaines **zones** sont mal couvertes par les systèmes de surveillance terrestre.
  ([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 7083008)

## noms

Used about 780 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 780).

- the progress made in the standardization of **geographical**
  accomplis quant à la normalisation des **noms**
  ([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 17444907)

## More sentences

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

- This store enjoys a **geographical** advantage.
  Ce magasin est bien situé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and Paiooooo · checked, community translation · [\#57737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57737) [\#683180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/683180))

- The new Hungarian constitution has no competence beyond the country's **geographical** area and provides unparalleled, strong legal protection for the nationalities within its area.
  La nouvelle Constitution hongroise n'étend pas ses compétences au-delà du territoire du pays mais assure une protection juridique inégalée aux minorités nationales sur ce territoire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1575461)

- What are the **geographical** limits to a Europe that is willing to cooperate within this political union?
  Jusqu'où cette Europe, prête à collaborer au sein de cette union politique, peut-elle s'étendre?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 455897)

## 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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