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# mandatory — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mandatories (3), mandatory (30 625). By style: everyday 15 · parliamentary 1 307 · legal and administrative 4 786 · UN documents 24 520.

## obligatoire

Used about 23 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 899 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 287 · UN documents ≈ 18 270). Forms: obligatoire, obligatoires.

- It is a **mandatory** mark.
  C'est une marque **obligatoire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tjwhale and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#11021371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11021371) [\#9341379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9341379))

- Primary school attendance is **mandatory** in all countries.
  La scolarité primaire est **obligatoire** dans tous les pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1532853)

- Customer gold deposits: **mandatory**
  Dépôts en or de clientèle: **obligatoire**
  ([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 3232577)

- 5.1 Are field inspections **mandatory**?
  5.1 Des inspections sur pied sont-elles **obligatoires** ?
  ([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 7538328)

- Attendance is **mandatory**.
  La présence est **obligatoire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2244992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2244992) [\#4547378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4547378))

## More sentences

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

- At a grassroots level, it is **mandatory** to take action.
  Au niveau local, il est nécessaire d'agir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sbgodin and Sbgodin · checked, community translation · [\#1945535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1945535) [\#1945532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1945532))

- Is it **mandatory** for us to wear these ridiculous ties?
  Est-on obligés de porter ces cravates ridicules ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#12916522](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12916522) [\#3925662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3925662))

- This is not just about **mandatory** national requirements, but about specific projects.
  Il ne s'agit pas seulement d'exigences nationales contraignantes, mais de projets spécifiques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1430777)

## 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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