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# principle — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: principle (153 358), principles (224 177). By style: everyday 62 · literary 8 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 29 554 · legal and administrative 32 583 · UN documents 315 324.

## principes

Used about 334 603 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 27 399 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 225 · UN documents ≈ 275 909). Forms: principe, principes.

- Tom has no **principles**.
  Tom n'a pas de **principes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5148886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5148886) [\#8990543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8990543))

- “You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold in the name of **principle**!”
  --Toi, endoctriner des républicains! toi, réchauffer, au nom des **principes**, des coeurs refroidis!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18616)

- These **principles** are shared by all Member States.
  Ces **principes** sont partagés par tous les États membres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1324865)

- THE **PRINCIPLES** OF RECOVERY POLICY
  LES **PRINCIPES** DE LA POLITIQUE DE RÉCUPÉRATION
  ([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 5635334)

- II. **pRINCIPLES** AND OBJECTIVES
  II. OBJECTIFS ET **PRINCIPES**
  ([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 16702880)

## More sentences

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

- Therefore leaving the teaching of the first **principles** of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
  C’est pourquoi, laissant les éléments de la parole de Christ, tendons à ce qui est parfait, sans poser de nouveau le fondement du renoncement aux œuvres mortes,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 6:1)

- So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental **principles** of the world.
  Nous aussi, de la même manière, lorsque nous étions enfants, nous étions sous l’esclavage des rudiments du monde;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:3)

- But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental **principles**, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
  mais à présent que vous avez connu Dieu, ou plutôt que vous avez été connus de Dieu, comment retournez-vous à ces faibles et pauvres rudiments, auxquels de nouveau vous voulez vous asservir encore?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:9)

## 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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