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Forms: officiel, officielle, officielles. - Now it's **official**. C'est maintenant **officiel**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#1244010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1244010) [\#6880256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6880256)) - However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean’s death was **official**; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one’s collar. Cependant l'obscurité avait pu le tromper; la mort de Jean Valjean était **officielle**; il restait à Javert des doutes, et des doutes graves; et dans le doute Javert, l'homme du scrupule, ne mettait la main au collet de personne. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10208) - Electronic publication of the **Official** Journal of the European Union ( Publication électronique du Journal **officiel** de l'Union européenne ( ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1589722) - Report of 5 June 2013, (not yet published in the **Official** Journal). Rapport du 5 juin 2013 (non encore paru au Journal **officiel**). ([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 2804481) - Summary of **official** meetings Aperçu des séances **officielles** ([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 21281402) ## fonctionnaires Used about 80 032 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 804 · legal and administrative ≈ 29 698 · UN documents ≈ 48 517). - These government **officials** are corrupt. Ces **fonctionnaires** du gouvernement sont corrompus. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3555084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3555084) [\#3559411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3559411)) - In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing little creatures, who felt that they formed an **official** part of the public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. Dans la double file, le long de laquelle des gardes municipaux galopaient comme des chiens de berger, d'honnêtes berlingots de famille, encombrés de grand'tantes et d'aïeules, étalaient à leurs portières de frais groupes d'enfants déguisés, pierrots de sept ans, pierrettes de six ans, ravissants petits êtres, sentant qu'ils faisaient officiellement partie de l'allégresse publique, pénétrés de la dignité de leur arlequinade et ayant une gravité de **fonctionnaires**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29555) - But it does indicate that the salaries paid to **officials** are excessive. Mais cela prouve que les salaires des **fonctionnaires** sont excessifs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1995464) - basic salaries of **officials** and temporary staff, le traitement de base des **fonctionnaires** et agents temporaires, ([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 4134492) - These **officials** received training at the very start of their work. Ces **fonctionnaires** ont été formés au tout début de leur activité. ([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 7903105) ## agents Used about 21 538 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 144 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 414 · UN documents ≈ 19 978). - The hecklers were escorted from the venue by security **officials**. Les perturbateurs ont été escortés hors de la salle par des **agents** de sécurité. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ToxicFriu and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10760045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10760045) [\#10760046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10760046)) - We must not build a new 'Berlin Wall' of **officials** and information. Nous ne devons pas bâtir un nouveau "Mur de Berlin" des **agents** et de l'information. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1118657) - The **officials** of the body appealed to shall remain in charge of the control operations at all times. Les **agents** de l’instance requise assurent à tout moment la conduite des opérations de contrôle. ([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 1559384) - In a fourth jurisdiction, there was no general immunity for public **officials**. Dans un quatrième État, il n ' y avait pas d ' immunité générale pour les **agents** publics. ([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 27577657) - This will mean a great deal of work for customs **officials** and it is a perfect present for them. Cela donnera beaucoup de travail aux **agents** des douanes, mais c'est un cadeau parfait pour eux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1094656) ## langues Used about 4 268 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 414 · UN documents ≈ 2 854). - ☐浡㭰 On the label in one or more **official**/principal languages of the country of destination ☐浡㭰 sur l'étiquette dans une ou plusieurs **langues** officielles/principales du pays de destination ([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 3822171) - With regard to terminology, he was in favour of using the term " **official** " in English, even if it meant foregoing consistency with the other languages. En ce qui concerne la terminologie, M. Saboia est partisan de conserver < < official > > en anglais, quitte à perdre en homogénéité avec les autres **langues**. ([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 29115798) - They shall be printed and completed in one of the **official** languages of the Contracting Parties accepted by the competent authorities. Ils sont imprimés et remplis dans une des **langues** officielles des parties contractantes acceptées par les autorités compétentes. ([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 52701) ## 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 **official** spoke to the reporter on condition of anonymity. Le fonctionnaire du gouvernement a parlé au reporter sous couvert d'anonymat. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1217545](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1217545) [\#1220078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1220078)) - As a public **official** you have sworn an oath to uphold and defend the constitution. En tant qu'officier public, vous avez prêté serment de soutenir et défendre la constitution. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#669598](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/669598) [\#809490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809490)) - The Algerian government insults the Kabyle through its **official** speeches and no Arabic speaker takes offense. Le gouvernement algérien insulte les Kabyles par ses discours officiels et aucun arabophone ne s'en offusque. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#9800590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9800590) [\#9830814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9830814)) ## 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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