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# personal — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: personal (88 156), personals (13). By style: everyday 177 · literary 8 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 893 · legal and administrative 16 101 · UN documents 65 989.

## personnel

Used about 43 658 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 136 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 4 297 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 821 · UN documents ≈ 26 396). Forms: personnel, personnelle, personnelles, personnels.

- It's not **personal**.
  Ce n'est pas **personnel**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2163032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163032) [\#2164108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2164108))

- And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from **personal** curiosity, like dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius.
  Et, non plus par mandat maintenant, mais par curiosité **personnelle**, comme ces chiens qui chassent pour leur compte, il se mit à suivre Marius.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13795)

- This is not **personal**, this is political.
  Ce que je vais dire n’est pas **personnel**, mais politique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 751973)

- Protection of **Personal** Data
  Protection des données à caractère **personnel**
  ([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 275543)

- , acting in their **personal** capacity.
  agissant à titre **personnel**.
  ([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 5494394)

## données

Used about 123 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 123).

- However, why should the civil authorities not process data in other fields too - while respecting **personal** privacy - if this guarantees good governance?
  Toutefois, pourquoi les autorités civiles ne devraient-elles pas traiter des **données** dans d'autres domaines aussi - tout en respectant la vie privée - si cela garantit la bonne gouvernance?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1133483)

## More sentences

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

- My **personal** life is none of your business!
  Ma vie privée ne vous regarde pas !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7810343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7810343) [\#11937003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11937003))

- Tom has a **personal** bodyguard.
  Tom a un gorille.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#3970838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3970838) [\#14048014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14048014))

- Don't make this **personal**.
  Ne le prenez pas personnellement !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1860425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860425) [\#2049467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2049467))

## 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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