Elamur: [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Parse](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/parse/) · [Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · **Translate** · [Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [MCP](https://mcp.elamur.ai/) · [Groupants](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/)

This page as HTML: <https://translate.elamur.ai/free/en/en-fr/priority/>

# priority — English to French

How English *priority* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: priorities (91 434), priority (152 650). By style: everyday 37 · literary 1 · parliamentary 18 424 · legal and administrative 11 210 · UN documents 214 412.

## priorité

Used about 228 680 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 16 889 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 743 · UN documents ≈ 201 011). Forms: prioritaire, prioritaires, priorité, priorités.

- That's our **priority**.
  C'est notre **priorité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2251184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251184) [\#11242195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11242195))

- “I have the **priority**,” observed Laigle, “but I have no home.”
  --J'aurais la **priorité**, observa Laigle, mais je n'ai pas de chez moi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14322)

- That is our **priority** now.
  C'est notre **priorité** pour le moment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1372395)

- Mission, objectives and **priorities**
  Mission, objectifs et **priorités**
  ([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 3069395)

- Panel discussions on **priority** themes
  Tables rondes sur des thèmes **prioritaires**
  ([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 10895898)

## devrait

Used about 192 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 192).

- In terms of education and training, the exemptions mechanism should give **priority**, in our opinion, to the best possible implementation of the conclusions of the Luxembourg Summit.
  Pour ce dernier secteur, le mécanisme d'exemption **devrait** privilégier, à notre avis, une mise en oeuvre optimale des conclusions du Sommet de Luxembourg.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1826971)

## More sentences

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

- As a **priority**, it is addressed to young people.
  Ça s'adresse prioritairement aux jeunes gens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#13816317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13816317) [\#9466808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9466808))

- In view of the above, I consider that it is necessary and a matter of **priority** to support any measures aimed at minimising this problem.
  Compte tenu de ce qui précède, je considère qu'il est nécessaire et urgent de soutenir toutes les mesures destinées à réduire ce problème au minimum.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1498667)

- We believe there is one conclusion to be drawn from this: the internal price stability of the euro must always be the **priority**.
  Une seule conclusion s'impose: nous devons privilégier la stabilité interne des prix de la zone euro.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1905429)

## 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. Every example names its source and licence. [Submit a better translation or example](https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/submit/?pair=en-fr&word=priority).


Every example is quoted under its source's licence and credited with it; the rest of the site is open under the Elamur Cosmic License.
