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# largely — English to French

How English *largely* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: largely (28 213). By style: everyday 10 · parliamentary 2 548 · legal and administrative 1 101 · UN documents 24 554.

## largement

Used about 8 596 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 902 · legal and administrative ≈ 528 · UN documents ≈ 7 162).

- His success was **largely** due to good luck.
  Son succès a été **largement** dû à la bonne fortune.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#286939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286939) [\#3670300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3670300))

- At the same time, no-one can be unaware that this bad text was **largely** rejected for the wrong reasons.
  Personne ne peut ignorer toutefois que ce mauvais texte a été assez **largement** rejeté pour de mauvaises raisons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 214505)

- It is **largely** used in the construction of modern homes and for DIY.
  Elles sont en effet **largement** utilisées dans la construction des habitations modernes et le bricolage.
  ([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 566499)

- We are therefore **largely** on our own as the financier of our development programmes.
  Nous devons donc **largement** assumer nous-mêmes le financement de nos programmes de développement.
  ([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 13170844)

- What this club is today is **largely** due to the effort of these people.
  Ce que ce cercle est aujourd’hui est **largement** le fruit de l’effort de ces gens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#393836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/393836) [\#7752444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7752444))

## grande

Used about 3 864 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 206 · UN documents ≈ 3 069).

- Love is **largely** a matter of luck.
  L'amour est en **grande** partie une question de chance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#3162800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3162800) [\#2865678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2865678))

- Criticism of the MAI is **largely** based on a misunderstanding.
  La critique du projet d'accord AMI repose en **grande** partie sur des malentendus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1902495)

- The previous contracts remained **largely** unchanged.
  Les marchés précédents sont demeurés en **grande** partie inchangés.
  ([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 5670651)

- This **largely** explains the killings and severe injuries that have been reported.
  Elle explique en **grande** partie les morts et les blessés graves qui ont été signalés.
  ([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 16787063)

- My success was **largely** due to luck.
  Ma réussite est en **grande** partie due à la chance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and phil77 · checked, community translation · [\#251280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251280) [\#898673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/898673))

## essentiellement

Used about 2 710 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 106 · legal and administrative ≈ 46 · UN documents ≈ 2 558).

- De facto, therefore, it is true that parliamentary control is **largely** the result of the nations choosing the intergovernmental option.
  Donc, le contrôle parlementaire, c' est vrai, s' effectue **essentiellement** du fait de ce choix intergouvernemental à l' intérieur des nations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 126112)

- The captive bank's difficulties can be **largely** attributed to the Group's problems because of the link between their financial ratings.
  En effet, les difficultés de la banque captive proviennent **essentiellement** des difficultés du groupe au travers du lien entre leurs notations financières.
  ([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 3874508)

- The slow growth in regional output has been caused **largely** by the worsening recession in Brazil.
  Le ralentissement de l &apos; accroissement de la production régionale est dû **essentiellement** à l &apos; aggravation de la récession au Brésil.
  ([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 345409)

- We really are at an impasse due **largely**, as we know, to issues of trade between the European Union and Mercosur.
  Nous nous trouvons effectivement dans une impasse, **essentiellement** due, comme nous le savons tous, aux problèmes commerciaux entre l'Union européenne et le Mercosur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 967063)

- In China, the main raw material used, i.e. recycled waste, was **largely** sourced on the domestic market, while some was also imported from the USA and Europe.
  En Chine, la principale matière première utilisée (déchets recyclés) provient **essentiellement** du marché intérieur, même si une certaine quantité est aussi importée des États-Unis et d'Europe.
  ([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 655921)

## dépend

Used about 1 069 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 46 · UN documents ≈ 1 023).

- The success of the investigation of human factors depends **largely** on the type and quality of the information collected.
  Le succès de l'enquête sur les facteurs humains **dépend** dans une large mesure du type et de la qualité des informations recueillies.
  ([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 2466599)

- One of the weaknesses of section 11 is that the system rests **largely** on the filing of complaints.
  L &apos; une des faiblesses du dispositif prévu à l &apos; article 11 est le fait qu &apos; il **dépend** en grande partie de la déposition de plaintes.
  ([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 8971088)

- It is obvious that the actual engine cycle resulting from denormalisation to the reference speed **largely** depends on selection of the proper reference speed.
  Il est évident que le cycle effectif du moteur résultant de la dénormalisation **dépend** dans une large mesure du choix du régime de référence approprié.
  ([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 421894)

- The success of a durable and comprehensive solution **largely** depended on the will of countries of origin unconditionally to accept the return of their citizens.
  Le succès d &apos; une solution durable et globale **dépend** pour beaucoup de la volonté des pays d &apos; origine d &apos; accepter sans conditions le retour de leurs ressortissants.
  ([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 2594024)

## More sentences

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

- Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, **largely** because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
  Les hommes conventionnels sont enragés par les écarts par rapport aux conventions, surtout parce qu'ils considèrent ces écarts comme une critique d'eux-mêmes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#411809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411809) [\#412839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/412839))

- Journalism **largely** consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
  Le journalisme consiste généralement à dire "Lord Jones est Mort" à des gens qui n'ont jamais su que Lord Jones était vivant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#410303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410303) [\#418754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/418754))

- As you said, Commissioner, it is **largely** about the development of effective technical standards for products.
  Comme vous l’avez dit, Monsieur le Commissaire, la question principale est l’élaboration de normes techniques efficaces pour les produits.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 813701)

## 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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