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# intellectual — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: intellectual (28 622), intellectuals (1 167). By style: everyday 35 · literary 3 · parliamentary 2 047 · legal and administrative 2 508 · UN documents 25 196.

## intellectuelle

Used about 25 840 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 834 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 456 · UN documents ≈ 21 522). Forms: intellectuel, intellectuelle, intellectuels.

- Tom is **intellectual**.
  Tom est un **intellectuel**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2236745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2236745) [\#9311612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9311612))

- As long as it remains in its state of primitive ignorance, of moral and **intellectual** minority, it can be said of it as of the child,—
  Tant qu'il reste dans cet état d'ignorance première, de minorité morale et **intellectuelle**, on peut dire de lui comme de l'enfant:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3479)

- **Intellectual** property is a precious asset.
  La propriété **intellectuelle** est un bien précieux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1560188)

- Management of **intellectual** property
  Gestion de la propriété **intellectuelle**
  ([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 1509667)

- Cultural and **intellectual** heritage
  Patrimoine culturel et **intellectuel**
  ([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 5179518)

## propriété

Used about 336 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 21 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 262).

- I refer here to Directive 92/100 on related rights and Directive 93/83 on **intellectual** property rights in the field of cable and satellite broadcasting.
  Je veux parler de la directive 92/100 du Conseil sur les droits voisins et la directive 93/83 sur les droits de **propriété** industrielle en matière de télévision par câble et satellite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1628799)

- A technology for which there are no substitutes, remains essential as long as the technology is covered by at least one valid **intellectual** property right.
  Une technologie pour laquelle il n ' existe pas de substitut reste essentielle tant qu ' elle est couverte par au moins un droit de **propriété** i ntellectuelle valable.
  ([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 5623066)

- Likewise, payments from WIPO to the Cuban **Intellectual** Property Office must be made in the same currencies.
  De même, les paiements versés par l &apos; OMPI à l &apos; Office cubain de la **propriété** industrielle doivent être libellés dans ces mêmes monnaies.
  ([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 29017581)

## More sentences

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

- Tom is an **intellectual**.
  Tom est un intello.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#4494444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494444) [\#10791301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10791301))

- My ascendant in Scorpio always helps me achieve truly **intellectual** feats.
  Mon ascendant Scorpion m'aide toujours à réaliser de vraies prouesses intellectuelles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and LoverofEnglish · checked, community translation · [\#12993853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12993853) [\#12540878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12540878))

- Tom is an **intellectual**.
  Tom est un crâne d'œuf.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#4494444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494444) [\#14068759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14068759))

## 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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