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# literacy — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: literacies (12), literacy (19 964). By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 174 · legal and administrative 183 · UN documents 19 615.

## alphabétisation

Used about 14 128 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 65 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 14 057).

- This organisation promotes **literacy** in rural areas.
  Cette organisation promeut l'**alphabétisation** des zones rurales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Pharamp · checked, community translation · [\#674133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/674133) [\#674132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/674132))

- This new sort of **literacy** has to be taught to many adults starting at the beginning.
  De nombreux adultes devront passer par cette néo-**alphabétisation** en partant de zéro.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 89608)

- reducing the adult illiteracy rate, with particular emphasis on female **literacy**;
  la réduction du taux d'analphabétisme des adultes, avec une attention particulière pour l'**alphabétisation** des femmes;
  ([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 1078690)

- 2 (d) Education and **literacy**
  2.d) Éducation et **alphabétisation**
  ([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 24222869)

- The overall **literacy** rate is around 55%, and is significantly lower for women than for men.
  Le taux d'**alphabétisation** global est d'environ 55 %, et il est nettement plus faible chez les femmes que chez les hommes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by The\_World\_Factbook and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8907425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8907425) [\#10567924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10567924))

## compétences

Used about 1 011 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 981).

- It is not very realistic, for example, to consider demanding IT skills if a person's **literacy** and numeracy skills are inadequate.
  Il n'est pas réaliste, par exemple, d'exiger des **compétences** en technologies de l'information à une personne sachant à peine lire ou compter.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 360251)

- Numeracy and/or **literacy** skills
  **Compétences** en calcul et/ou lecture/écriture
  ([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 3400298)

- 3. Learning new **literacies**
  3. Acquérir de nouvelles **compétences**
  ([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 18036373)

- These **literacies** are multiple, dynamic, and fast evolving.
  Ces nouvelles **compétences** de base se caractérisent par leur multiplicité, leur dynamisme et la rapidité avec laquelle elles évoluent.
  ([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 24452366)

- Examples of possible actions concerning media **literacy**:
  Exemples d'actions possibles dans le domaine de l'acquisition des **compétences** liées aux médias:
  ([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 881764)

## numérique

Used about 368 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 22 · legal and administrative ≈ 19 · UN documents ≈ 327).

- Media **literacy** in a digital world (
  La compétence médiatique dans un monde **numérique** (
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1178663)

- widen ICT, including digital content, accessibility and digital **literacy**;
  à rendre les TIC, y compris le contenu **numérique**, plus accessibles et à généraliser la maîtrise du numérique;
  ([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 870590)

- In order to ensure that women are not just consuming but also producing information and communications technologies and media and to ensure that they can benefit more meaningfully from such technologies, investments in building the technological capabilities and digital and media **literacies** of women and girls are necessary and should include efforts within formal educational systems.
  Afin que les femmes ne demeurent pas de simples consommatrices des technologies de l &apos; information et des communications et des médias mais participent également à leur production et pour garantir qu &apos; elles puissent en tirer davantage parti, il est nécessaire d &apos; investir dans le renforcement des capacités technologiques des femmes et des filles, dans leurs connaissances du monde **numérique** et des médias, en particulier dans les établissements scolaires.
  ([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 29893415)

- Media **literacy** in a digital world (short presentation)
  La compétence médiatique dans un monde **numérique** (brève présentation)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1178538)

- e-Inclusion, e-Accessibility, e-Learning and e-Education services and applications, digital **literacy**
  Services et applications en matière d'inclusion en ligne, d'accessibilité en ligne, d’apprentissage et d’éducation en ligne, culture **numérique**
  ([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 3259634)

## More sentences

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

- Many new teachers feel ill-prepared to teach basic **literacy** and numeracy.
  De nombreux instituteurs se sentent mal préparés à enseigner la lecture et le calcul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#450633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/450633) [\#450635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/450635))

- This organisation promotes **literacy** in rural areas.
  Cette organisation fait la promotion de la littératie dans les régions rurales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#674133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/674133) [\#686775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/686775))

- Media **literacy** - we cannot start too soon on heightening awareness of it and on playing our part in developing it.
  Compétence des médias, nous ne pourrons jamais commencer assez tôt à renforcer cette conscience de la nécessité d'encourager son développement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 315231)

## Grammar

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