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# independence — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: independence (81 741), independences (2). By style: everyday 34 · literary 1 · parliamentary 4 184 · legal and administrative 3 447 · UN documents 74 077.

## indépendance

Used about 70 792 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 748 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 303 · UN documents ≈ 63 706).

- Happy **Independence** Day!
  Bonne fête de l'**Indépendance** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Salem and PERCE\_NEIGE · checked, community translation · [\#3504372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3504372) [\#6036185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6036185))

- Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, **independence**, the taste of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called passion.
  L'isolement, le détachement de tout, la fierté, l'**indépendance**, le goût de la nature, l'absence d'activité quotidienne et matérielle, la vie en soi, les luttes secrètes de la chasteté, l'extase bienveillante devant toute la création, avaient préparé Marius à cette possession qu'on nomme la passion.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15419)

- **Independence**, yes, but **independence** in relation to what?
  **Indépendance**, oui, mais indépendance par rapport à quoi ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 72257)

- B. **Independence** of operator
  B. **Indépendance** de l’opérateur
  ([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 5211006)

- **Independence** of judges and lawyers (2000)
  **Indépendance** des juges et des avocats (2000)
  ([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 27532999)

## son

Used about 1 482 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 482).

- 139. The Youth Parliament has become a kind of subdivision of the National Assembly without any real **independence**, which reduces its effectiveness.
  139. Quant au Parlement des jeunes, il est devenu une sorte de service de l &apos; Assemblée nationale sans aucune autonomie, ce qui réduit **son** efficacité.
  ([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 18846782)

## garantir

Used about 72 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 72).

- (aa) establish special rules in order to guarantee the **independence** of the fundamental rights officer in the performance of his or her duties;
  aa) établit des dispositions spéciales afin de **garantir** que l’officier aux droits fondamentaux est indépendant dans l’exercice de ses fonctions;
  ([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 5023146)

## More sentences

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

- Happy **Independence** Day!
  Bonne fête nationale !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Salem and PERCE\_NEIGE · checked, community translation · [\#3504372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3504372) [\#6036183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6036183))

- May I rebut John Stevens' suggestion that the Socialist Group is soft on the **independence** of the ECB.
  Puis-je réfuter la suggestion de John Stevens qui a déclaré que le groupe socialiste était contre l'autonomie de la BCE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1835097)

- The African continent finally had the professionals and experts it so lacked at the time of **independence**.
  Le continent africain disposait enfin des cadres et des experts qui lui faisaient tant défaut au moment des indépendances.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 81910)

## 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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