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# internal — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: internal (172 514), internals (73). By style: everyday 15 · literary 14 · parliamentary 17 314 · legal and administrative 29 341 · UN documents 125 903.

## interne

Used about 105 378 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 246 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 923 · UN documents ≈ 79 197). Forms: interne, internes.

- This is for **internal** use.
  C'est pour un usage **interne**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2268942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2268942) [\#3220577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3220577))

- "You see, Axel," he added, "the condition of the terrestrial nucleus has given rise to various hypotheses among geologists; there is no proof at all for this **internal** heat; my opinion is that there is no such thing, it cannot be; besides we shall see for ourselves, and, like Arne Saknussemm, we shall know exactly what to hold as truth concerning this grand question."
  «Tu le vois, Axel, ajouta-t-il, l'état du noyau central a soulevé des hypothèses diverses entre les géologues; rien de moins prouvé que ce fait d'une chaleur **interne**; suivant moi, elle n'existe pas; elle ne saurait exister; nous le verrons, d'ailleurs, et, comme Arne Saknussemm, nous saurons à quoi nous en tenir sur cette grande question.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 531)

- **Internal** development is stagnating and European businesses are staying away.
  Le développement **interne** stagne et les entreprises européennes restent éloignées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1256851)

- Nuclear reactor **internals**
  **Internes** de réacteur nucléaire
  ([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 4025689)

- Tower **internals** and stage pumps
  **Internes** de tour et pompes d &apos; étage
  ([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 9629563)

## intérieur

Used about 25 289 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 9 739 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 362 · UN documents ≈ 12 184).

- The Algerian regime, unable to cope with an inflammatory **internal** context, seeks war under any pretext.
  Le régime algérien, incapable de faire face à un contexte **intérieur** inflammable, cherche la guerre sous n'importe quel prétexte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#10489502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10489502) [\#10489498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10489498))

- An idea had occurred to him as he laced his boots, but he rejected it at first; nevertheless, it returned, and he put on his waistcoat wrong side out, an evident sign of violent **internal** combat.
  Une pensée lui était venue tout en ficelant ses bottines, mais il la repoussa d'abord; cependant elle revint, et il mit son gilet à l'envers, signe évident d'un violent combat **intérieur**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4037)

- But the EU is much more than purely an **internal** market.
  Mais l'UE est beaucoup plus qu'un simple marché **intérieur**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1902654)

- **INTERNAL** MARKET AND SERVICES
  MARCHÉ **INTÉRIEUR** ET SERVICES
  ([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 3447379)

- This situation must be taken into account if one is to understand the **internal** situation in Latvia.
  Il convient de tenir compte de ce facteur pour bien comprendre la situation qui règne à l &apos; **intérieur** de la Lettonie.
  ([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 217602)

## tour

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1).

- The trunk had not suffered any **internal** injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous.
  Le torse n'était atteint d'aucune lésion intérieure; une balle, amortie par le portefeuille, avait dévié et fait le **tour** des côtes avec une déchirure hideuse, mais sans profondeur, et par conséquent sans danger.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28384)

## More sentences

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

- In 1967, Britain gave Grenada autonomy over its **internal** affairs.
  En 1967, la Grande-Bretagne a accordé l'autonomie à la Grenade en matière de politique intérieure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by The\_World\_Factbook and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8904711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8904711) [\#9246919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9246919))

- Speech is external thought, and thought **internal** speech.
  La parole est la pensée extérieure, et la pensée est la parole intérieure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#5002684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5002684) [\#923431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/923431))

- It is not enough to defeat our external enemies, it is also necessary to exterminate our **internal** enemies.
  Il ne suffit pas de vaincre les ennemis du dehors, il faut encore exterminer les ennemis du dedans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#3226096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3226096) [\#3196085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3196085))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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