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# pilot — English to French

How English *pilot* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: pilot (41 918), pilots (2 414). By style: everyday 58 · literary 10 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 381 · legal and administrative 7 768 · UN documents 35 110.

## pilote

Used about 33 676 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 252 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 121 · UN documents ≈ 25 235). Forms: pilote, pilotes.

- Tom is a **pilot**.
  Tom est un **pilote**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Shirotae · checked, community translation · [\#2272845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2272845) [\#2968613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2968613))

- “Well, **pilot**?” said Mr. Fogg.
  «Eh bien, **pilote**? dit Mr. Fogg.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1575)

- At the sound of the cry of your **pilots**, the pasture lands will shake.
  Aux cris de tes **pilotes**, Les plages d’alentour trembleront;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 27:28)

- We are working with the **pilots**.
  Nous travaillons avec les **pilotes**, la consultation est en cours.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1043263)

- Sovello1 is a **pilot** project
  Sovello1 est un projet **pilote**
  ([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 1699960)

## vol

Used about 95 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 81).

- The consequence of that was that **pilots**’ flying times and the working conditions of cabin crew were open and controversial issues for our discussions in the committee.
  Résultat: les temps de **vol** et les conditions de travail des équipages ont été les principaux points de controverse lors de nos débats en commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 836891)

- have a minimum experience of at least 100 hours of instrument flight time as **pilot** in command (‘PIC’) in the relevant category of aircraft.
  avoir une expérience minimale d’au moins 100 heures de **vol** aux instruments en tant que commandant de bord («PIC») dans la catégorie d’aéronef pertinente.
  ([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 5208382)

## projets

Used about 81 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 81).

- The selection of **pilots** and regions will take into account relevant Interreg and other Union projects.
  Les **projets** expérimentaux et les régions seront sélectionnés en tenant compte des projets Interreg et d'autres projets de l'Union pertinents.
  ([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 4475843)

## More sentences

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

- Tom is a **pilot**.
  Tom est un aviateur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#2272845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2272845) [\#6397782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6397782))

- He could **pilot** a chopper blindfolded.
  Il pourrait piloter un hélico les yeux fermés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Conjuice and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#12956299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12956299) [\#14052493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14052493))

- It was determined that the plane crashed due to **pilot** error.
  Il fut déterminé que l'avion s'était écrasé à cause d'une erreur de pilotage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#699992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/699992) [\#805194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805194))

## 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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