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# presidential — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: presidential (30 451). By style: everyday 24 · parliamentary 1 176 · legal and administrative 1 072 · UN documents 28 179.

## présidentiel

Used about 20 064 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 882 · legal and administrative ≈ 960 · UN documents ≈ 18 199). Forms: présidentiel, présidentielle, présidentielles.

- Are you watching the **presidential** debate?
  Regardes-tu le débat **présidentiel** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1890697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1890697) [\#1892182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1892182))

- He is becoming a **presidential** candidate in Egypt, as I understand it.
  Il est candidat aux élections **présidentielles** en Égypte, si j'ai bien compris.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1517985)

- **Presidential** Adviser on Security Affairs.
  Conseiller **présidentiel** pour les questions de sécurité.
  ([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 2914606)

- The **presidential** elections of 21 November 2010.
  les élections **présidentielles** du 21 novembre 2010.
  ([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 26549359)

- Are you watching the **presidential** debate?
  Regardez-vous le débat **présidentiel** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1890697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1890697) [\#1892183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1892183))

## More sentences

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

- **Presidential** sex scandals always make good copy.
  Les scandales sexuels présidentiels font toujours bien vendre du papier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#829626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/829626) [\#829630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/829630))

- The idea got under way during the Finnish **Presidential** term, and was continued with successfully by France.
  Elle a été engagée lors de la présidence finlandaise et poursuivie avec succès par la présidence française.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152258)

- In our **presidential** capacity, we have also wanted to make sure that this dialogue works.
  En tant que pays assurant la présidence, nous avons voulu garantir que ce dialogue fonctionne bel et bien.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2026434)

## 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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