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# indicator — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: indicator (29 116), indicators (100 510). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 1 927 · legal and administrative 13 310 · UN documents 114 388.

## indicateur

Used about 113 919 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 766 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 062 · UN documents ≈ 100 090). Forms: indicateur, indicateurs.

- Rank smells are a clear **indicator** that food should be thrown away.
  Des odeurs nauséabondes sont de clairs **indicateurs** que la nourriture devrait être jetée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2136579](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2136579) [\#2136583](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2136583))

- However, this **indicator** is not holistic.
  Toutefois, cet **indicateur** n'est pas global.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1574705)

- Rate-of-turn **indicator**
  **Indicateur** du taux de giration
  ([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 5163907)

- UNCCD Core **indicator** S- (1/2/3):
  **Indicateur** de base S (1/2/3)
  ([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 24894663)

- If reform is the issue, then we have our own **indicators**.
  S’agissant de la réforme, nous avons nos propres **indicateurs**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 532128)

## objectifs

Used about 1 192 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 192).

- There was also a proposal to have thresholds towards which to set **indicator** targets.
  Il a aussi été proposé de définir des seuils par rapport auxquels on pourrait fixer des **objectifs** indicatifs.
  ([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 22699761)

## direction

Used about 20 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20).

- The application of Article 286 of the Treaty is a good **indicator** here.
  À cet égard, l'activation de l'article 286 du Traité donné une idée claire de la **direction** à prendre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998015)

## More sentences

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

- Here, it is important that in future, GDP growth does not remain the only key **indicator** of social progress.
  Dans ce sens, il est important qu'à l'avenir la croissance du produit intérieur brut ne reste pas le seul critère important pour évaluer le progrès d'une société.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 327147)

- Like other colleagues, I would support the quality assurance schemes that are available and encourage those as part of the general local **indicator**.
  À l'instar d'autres collègues, je soutiendrai les programmes d'assurance qualité disponibles et les encouragerai dans le cadre de l'indication locale générale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1364664)

- I referred to this specific **indicator** because it shows such a huge difference, with growth in the order of 150%.
  J' ai mentionné l' indice en question car la différence est très importante. Autrement dit, nous avons un accroissement de l' ordre de 150 %.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 287055)

## 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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