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Forms: minoritaires, minorité, minorités. - I'm in the **minority**. Je suis en **minorité**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11642366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11642366) [\#13271693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13271693)) - As long as it remains in its state of primitive ignorance, of moral and intellectual **minority**, it can be said of it as of the child,— Tant qu'il reste dans cet état d'ignorance première, de **minorité** morale et intellectuelle, on peut dire de lui comme de l'enfant: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3479) - The rights of **minorities**? Les droits des **minorités**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 846347) - Ethnic or linguistic **minorities** **Minorités** ethniques ou linguistiques ([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 4226910) - Use of **minority** languages Utilisation des langues de **minorités** ([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 8949394) ## appartenant Used about 1 184 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 184). - 7.17 Incidence of care among children of ethnic **minority** parents in 7.17 Fréquence de la prise en charge d ' enfants de parents **appartenant** à une ([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 9112204) ## droits Used about 15 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 15). - In both Republics: adopt/implement legislation on property restitution. Refugees, displaced persons and **minorities** **Droits** de la propriété: Dans les deux républiques: adopter et mettre en œuvre la législation relative à la restitution de la propriété. ([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 395787) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The government clamped down on the **minority** group. Le gouvernement a sévi contre le groupe minoritaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#271482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271482) [\#8414173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8414173)) - The chairman should take the **minority** opinion into account. Le président devrait tenir compte de l'opinion minoritaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and THURET · checked, community translation · [\#20000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20000) [\#3661770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3661770)) - I'm in the **minority**. Je suis minoritaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11642366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11642366) [\#13271726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13271726)) ## 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 Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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