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# municipalities — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: municipalities (21 284). By style: parliamentary 273 · legal and administrative 1 638 · UN documents 19 373.

## municipalités

Used about 15 508 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 159 · legal and administrative ≈ 819 · UN documents ≈ 14 530).

- Flexibility for the **municipalities** is at the heart of this.
  La proposition prévoit une grande marge de flexibilité pour les **municipalités**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1153337)

- Other bus services provided by **municipalities**.
  Autres services d'autobus assurés par les **municipalités**.
  ([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 25675)

- Ministry of Interior and **Municipalities**
  Ministère de l &apos; intérieur et des **municipalités**
  ([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 23247017)

- Of the country's 1 100 **municipalities**, in 170 there was no police presence.
  Sur les 1 100 **municipalités** du pays, 170 ne comptaient aucune présence policière.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 559670)

- Upgrading the infrastructure of **municipalities** \[28\]
  Modernisation de l'infrastructure des **municipalités** \[28\]
  ([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 3852403)

## communes

Used about 3 189 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 85 · legal and administrative ≈ 683 · UN documents ≈ 2 422).

- **Municipalities** and consumers would save on costs.
  Les **communes** et les consommateurs épargneront des frais.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 173782)

- B. The following **municipalities** in Bulgaria:
  B. Les **communes** de Bulgarie suivantes:
  ([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 4789619)

- 4. Reclassification of **municipalities** at chronic risk
  4. Reclassification des **communes** à risque chronique
  ([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 17181341)

- There are **municipalities** with textile mills where unemployment is over 20%!
  Le taux de chômage dépasse bel et bien vingt pour cent dans certaines **communes** abritant des usines textiles!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1279238)

- **Municipalities** fully included in the area
  **Communes** comprises dans l’aire en totalité
  ([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 3041113)

## More sentences

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

- Collecting funds centrally to subsequently share them out to interested parties or projects in **municipalities** or provinces renders control more difficult.
  Recueillir centralement des fonds pour ensuite les distribuer aux parties intéressées ou à des projets municipaux ou provinciaux rend les contrôles plus difficiles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1169741)

- May I point out one error in the translation: '**municipalities**' has been translated as 'Städte' in German.
  Puis-je signaler une erreur de traduction: "collectivités locales" a été traduit par "Städte" en allemand.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1074894)

- In some **municipalities**, Commissioner, it is now over 20%, particularly in the north of Portugal.
  Dans certaines collectivités, Madame la Commissaire, le taux de chômage dépasse à présent les vingt pour cent, notamment dans le nord du Portugal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1279237)

## Grammar

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