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# provincial — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: provincial (24 180), provincials (2). By style: everyday 4 · literary 4 · parliamentary 107 · legal and administrative 743 · UN documents 23 324.

## province

Used about 21 978 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 94 · legal and administrative ≈ 418 · UN documents ≈ 21 458). Forms: province, provinces, provincial, provinciale, provinciales, provinciaux.

- He lives in a small, **provincial** town.
  Il vit dans une petite ville de **province**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#10808949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10808949) [\#10810214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10810214))

- “Yes,” said the **provincial**, “at Reims.”
  --Oui, dit la **provinciale**, à Reims.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3036)

- I am now going to be very parochial and **provincial**.
  Je vais à présent être très particulariste et **provincial**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 975428)

- inItaly,the **provincial** office of the INAIL;
  enItalie,le siège **provincial** de l'INAIL;
  ([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 784825)

- H. Network of **provincial** offices
  H. Le réseau des bureaux de **province**
  ([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 4006252)

## gouverneur

Used about 296 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 294).

- The head of the government of one of the nine provinces belongs to this party and it is involved in all the other **provincial** governments.
  Elle compte en ses rangs le Landeshauptmann, le **gouverneur**, d'un des neuf États fédérés et participe à tous les autres gouvernements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5328)

- Former **Provincial** Governor: Manicaland.
  Ancien **gouverneur** de la province du Manicaland.
  ([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 1725170)

- **Provincial** Governor associated with ZANU-PF.
  **Gouverneur** de province lié à la ZANU-PF.
  ([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 2588284)

- **Provincial** Governor for Mashonaland Central.
  **Gouverneur** de la province de Mashonaland Central.
  ([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 1796337)

- **Provincial** Governor for Mashonaland Central.
  **Gouverneur** de la province du Mashonaland central.
  ([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 2487693)

## More sentences

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

- It cannot be the answer to deal with social policy at a purely regional, or even **provincial**, level.
  Une régionalisation pure et simple, voire même une provincialisation, de la politique sociale ne peut être la réponse.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 90619)

- He gave a complete repeat performance in the elections to **provincial** assemblies, but it brought him no success in terms of votes.
  Il a d'ailleurs récidivé durant la campagne électorale pour les élections régionales. Mais en ce qui concerne les voix recueillies, ces déclarations n'ont eu aucun succès.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 423190)

- I was a member of a **provincial** government in Austria.
  J'ai été membre d'un gouvernement régional en Autriche.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 326354)

## 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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