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# political — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: political (451 269). By style: everyday 114 · literary 17 · parliamentary 51 395 · legal and administrative 9 592 · UN documents 390 151.

## politique

Used about 423 669 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 112 · literary ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 48 183 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 592 · UN documents ≈ 365 767). Forms: politique, politiques.

- Tom joined a **political** party.
  Tom a rejoint un parti **politique**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and pfpillon · checked, community translation · [\#4526769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4526769) [\#4526929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4526929))

- “By the way, have you any **political** opinions?”
  --À propos, avez-vous une opinion **politique**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14339)

- That is the **political** heart of the matter.
  Tel est le coeur **politique** du problème.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1675911)

- support for **political** reforms,
  soutien aux réformes **politiques**,
  ([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 4125939)

- B. **Political** parties and elections . 22 - 24 6
  B. Partis **politiques** et élections 22 - 24 6
  ([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 811852)

## More sentences

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

- The price of petrol is, most of the time, a result of strategic **political** decisions.
  Le prix du pétrole est la plupart du temps le résultat de décisions politico-stratégiques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sejb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6489605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6489605) [\#6488543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6488543))

- “It was a **political** meeting, sir,” replied the porter.
  --C'était un meeting, monsieur, répondit l'employé.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2134)

- My dear Madam, it seems to me that you are trying to draw something out of me for **political** reasons which is not there to be drawn.
  Madame la Députée, je comprends cette tentative de m'arracher politiquement ce que vous n'avez pu m'arracher.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 355695)

## 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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