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Forms: principal, principales, principaux. - He must be the **principal**. Il doit être le **principal**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and adlerq · checked, community translation · [\#413023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413023) [\#1139315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1139315)) - For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their **principal** talent, and they were superb. Pour l'instant les cygnes nageaient, ce qui est leur talent **principal**, et ils étaient superbes. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26516) - Then the high priest and the **principal** men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him, Les **principaux** sacrificateurs et les principaux d’entre les Juifs lui portèrent plainte contre Paul. Ils firent des instances auprès de lui, et, dans des vues hostiles, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:2) - The **principal** points are as follows: Voici les **principaux** points: ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1854129) - **Principal** debtor or jointly liable debtor: Débiteur **principal** ou débiteur solidaire: ([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 3888448) ## directeurs Used about 7 773 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 7 714). - A non-resident proprietorship, partnership or corporation applying for a certificate of practice to practice architecture in Prince Edward Island shall have at least two-thirds of the partners, **principals** or directors of the partnership or corporation be architects; and not less than the majority of issued shares of each class of voting shares of the corporation are beneficially owned by and registered in the name of architects. Au moins deux tiers des partenaires, des dirigeants ou des **directeurs** d'une entreprise individuelle, d'une société ou d'un partenariat non résident qui demande un certificat autorisant la pratique de l'architecture à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard doivent être des architectes; et au moins la majorité des actions émises de chaque catégorie d'actions avec droit de vote doivent être la propriété effective d'architectes et être inscrites à leur nom. ([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 259539) - Of the 30 **principals** in the Cook Islands, 11 are women. Sur les 30 **directeurs** d ' écoles des Îles Cook, 11 sont des femmes. ([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 15110833) - Out of 40 **principals** of teachers colleges, only eight are women. Sur 40 **directeurs** d’écoles normales, 8 seulement sont des femmes. ([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 2738066) - Of the twenty-one (21) **principals** one was from Region 3 as table 1 below indicate. Des 21 **directeurs** d ' école, un était de la région 3 comme le montre le tableau ci-dessous. ([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 15122538) - - Give **principals** proper training in administrative and financial management and leadership; and - Assurer aux **directeurs** une formation adéquate en gestion administrative et financière, en leadership ([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 24423524) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Have you seen the **principal**? Avez-vous vu le directeur ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and slahatuvelli · checked, community translation · [\#13588630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13588630) [\#13581124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13581124)) - The **principal** was always miserly with words. Le directeur était toujours avare de mots. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8283821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8283821) [\#11463816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11463816)) - The **principal**'s office is at the ground floor. Le bureau de la directrice est au rez-de-chaussée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14068035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14068035) [\#14068034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14068034)) ## 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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