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# master — English to French

How English *master* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: master (24 294), masters (2 030). By style: everyday 210 · literary 150 · biblical 133 · parliamentary 488 · legal and administrative 4 538 · UN documents 20 805.

## maître

Used about 9 966 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 155 · literary ≈ 141 · biblical ≈ 97 · parliamentary ≈ 214 · legal and administrative ≈ 473 · UN documents ≈ 8 885). Forms: maître, maîtres, maîtrise.

- You're the **master**.
  C'est toi le **maître**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2218430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2218430) [\#2228988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2228988))

- “That is true, my **master**.
  --Cela est vrai, mon **maître**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2510)

- They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, **Master**, have mercy on us!”
  Jésus, **maître**, aie pitié de nous!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 17:13)

- Europe is the **master**.
  L'Europe est le **maître**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1550729)

- spare travel s″Hz of the **master** cylinder (in millimetres).
  garde s″HZ du **maître** cylindre (en mm).
  ([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 5480189)

## capitaine

Used about 3 435 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 15 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 553 · UN documents ≈ 867). Forms: capitaine, capitaines.

- It deplores the fact that it has been made impossible for the **master** of the vessel to leave Spain during his trial.
  Il déplore l’impossibilité donnée au **capitaine** du navire de quitter l’Espagne pendant son procès.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 587140)

- **Masters** of longline vessels shall:
  Le **capitaine** d’un palangrier:
  ([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 5357444)

- Obligation of the flag State to ensure that vessel **masters**:
  L &apos; État du pavillon a l &apos; obligation de veiller à ce que les **capitaines** de navire :
  ([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 11532847)

- Mr President, I should like first to congratulate the United States of America, the puppet **masters** at this convention.
  Monsieur le Président, je voudrais tout d'abord féliciter les États-Unis, le **capitaine** fantoche à cette convention.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 443076)

- Transfer vessel **Master** signature:
  Signature du **capitaine** du navire de transfert:
  ([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 2631705)

## More sentences

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

- To **master** English is difficult.
  Il est difficile de maîtriser l'anglais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#26238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26238) [\#9821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9821))

- No matter how hard you may study English, you cannot **master** it in a year or so.
  Tu auras beau étudier l'anglais de toutes tes forces, tu ne peux pas le maîtriser en un an et quelques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#36748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36748) [\#1452199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1452199))

- She got a **master**'s degree three years ago.
  Elle a eu un diplôme de master il y a trois ans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · [\#310174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/310174) [\#352827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/352827))

## 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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