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# important — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: important (363 925), importants (186). By style: everyday 888 · literary 7 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 75 453 · legal and administrative 10 055 · UN documents 277 706.

## important

Used about 299 976 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 833 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 55 018 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 913 · UN documents ≈ 237 207). Forms: important, importante, importants, importe.

- To me, it's **important**.
  Pour moi, c'est **important**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and jcgillet · checked, community translation · [\#3326699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3326699) [\#2081532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2081532))

- “A very **important** thing.”
  --Une chose très **importante**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18596)

- But from those who were reputed to be **important**—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
  Ceux qui sont les plus considérés-quels qu’ils aient été jadis, cela ne m’**importe** pas: Dieu ne fait point acception de personnes, ceux qui sont les plus considérés ne m’imposèrent rien.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 2:6)

- This is very **important**.
  Ce point est très **important**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1226680)

- Gin and geneva (**important**: excluding alcohol duty)
  Gin et genièvre (**important**: hors taxes et accises sur l'alcool)
  ([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 3365629)

## membres

Used about 4 465 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 572 · UN documents ≈ 2 893).

- It is very **important** that we continue with these meetings at a high level with the social partners and the Member States in order to exchange best practices.
  Nous devons poursuivre nos rencontres de haut niveau avec les interlocuteurs sociaux et les représentants des États **membres** en vue d'échanges de bonnes pratiques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1322589)

- They provide an **important** opportunity for the mandate holder to interact with Government representatives and members of civil society.
  Elles offrent au titulaire du mandat une importante occasion d &apos; interagir avec des représentants des pouvoirs publics et des **membres** de la société civile.
  ([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 23986757)

## More sentences

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

- Do you have any idea how **important** your test grades are?
  Avez-vous la moindre idée combien vos notes d'examen sont importantes ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#953194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953194) [\#1395243](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1395243))

- Do you have any idea how **important** your test grades are?
  As-tu la moindre idée combien tes notes d'examen sont importantes ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#953194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953194) [\#1395241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1395241))

- It isn't **important**.
  Ce n'est pas grave.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1514238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1514238) [\#333722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/333722))

## 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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