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# local — English to French

How English *local* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: local (284 846), locals (423). By style: everyday 111 · literary 4 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 10 114 · legal and administrative 15 726 · UN documents 259 301.

## local

Used about 220 592 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 7 095 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 549 · UN documents ≈ 199 878). Forms: local, locale, locales, locals, locaux.

- This is a **local** custom.
  C'est une coutume **locale**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7733600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7733600) [\#11235161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11235161))

- The **local** deputy, who nosed out all rivalry everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion.
  Le député **local**, qui flairait partout des concurrences, ne tarda pas à s'inquiéter de cette religion.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3573)

- That is why it is crucial to amass **local** experience.
  Il est donc essentiel de récolter les expériences au niveau **local**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 350495)

- **Local** government debt component
  Composante de la dette se rapportant aux administrations **locales**
  ([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 1781612)

- Human development at the **local** level.
  Le développement humain au niveau **local**.
  ([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 9147567)

## More sentences

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

- The **local** boys got into a fight with a rival group from a neighboring town.
  Les garçons du coin sont entrés en dispute avec un groupe rival d'une ville voisine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1702451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1702451) [\#1703959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1703959))

- The **local** coffee shop was replaced by a Starbucks.
  Le café du coin a été remplacé par un Starbucks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3476443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3476443) [\#3487319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3487319))

- The **local** supermarket has an organic section.
  Le supermarché du coin a un rayon bio.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tabasco1999 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3217426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3217426) [\#11377268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11377268))

## 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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