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# historical — English to French

How English *historical* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: historical (24 556). By style: everyday 22 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 912 · legal and administrative 2 359 · UN documents 20 261.

## historique

Used about 18 937 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 753 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 966 · UN documents ≈ 15 196). Forms: historique, historiques.

- This is a **historical** moment.
  C'est un moment **historique**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Balamax · checked, community translation · [\#2790506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2790506) [\#2791689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2791689))

- Louis Philippe, like all **historical** men who have passed from the scene, is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience.
  Louis-Philippe, comme tous les hommes **historiques** sortis de scène, est aujourd'hui mis en jugement par la conscience humaine.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18186)

- This could represent a **historical** step forward.
  Cela pourrait représenter une avancée **historique**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 485122)

- **Historical** activity level for new entrants
  Niveau d'activité **historique** des nouveaux entrants
  ([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 4914601)

- Property of **historical** and artistic importance.
  Biens présentant un intérêt **historique** et artistique.
  ([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 1004650)

## More sentences

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

- You'll find that book in the **historical** section of the library.
  Tu trouveras ce livre dans le département Histoire de la bibliothèque.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#43912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43912) [\#1142023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1142023))

- The Union has an **historical** duty to be involved.
  Une implication qu'elle doit au nom de l'histoire aussi.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 221208)

- To this end and in line with its **historical** commitments, the EU must promote and support this form of decentralised cooperation.
  C’est pourquoi l’Union doit, conformément à ses engagements passés, promouvoir et soutenir cette forme de coopération décentralisée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541483)

## 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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