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# necessary — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: necessaries (62), necessary (382 524). By style: everyday 361 · literary 40 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 26 871 · legal and administrative 78 051 · UN documents 277 251.

## nécessaire

Used about 197 032 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 293 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 13 995 · legal and administrative ≈ 58 538 · UN documents ≈ 124 185). Forms: nécessaire, nécessaires.

- That's not **necessary**.
  Ce n'est pas **nécessaire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#2251158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251158) [\#584682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584682))

- But, sad to say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes **necessary**.
  Mais, chose triste, de temps en temps, l'exceptionnel est **nécessaire**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23694)

- No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are **necessary**.
  Mais bien plutôt, les membres du corps qui paraissent être les plus faibles sont **nécessaires**;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:22)

- In such cases, we have to do what is **necessary**.
  En pareils cas, nous devons faire ce qui s'avère **nécessaire**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 955253)

- Aid limited to the minimum **necessary**
  Limitation de l'aide au minimum **nécessaire**
  ([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 5656766)

## More sentences

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

- To denazify Ukraine, it is **necessary** that Putin leave it.
  Pour dénazifier l’Ukraine, il faut que Poutine en sorte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12546004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12546004) [\#10706581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10706581))

- As the date didn't work for the section chief, it was **necessary** to completely reorganize the drinking party.
  Comme la date ne convenait pas au chef de section, il a fallu replanifier complètement l'horaire pour le nomikai.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#425590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425590) [\#425040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425040))

- It is **necessary** to make the study of languages easier.
  Il faut que l'on facilite l'étude des langues.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and marcelostockle · checked, community translation · [\#2098535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2098535) [\#2098536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2098536))

## 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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