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# public — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: public (623 779), publics (509). By style: everyday 275 · literary 40 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 38 873 · legal and administrative 59 135 · UN documents 525 960.

## public

Used about 539 446 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 235 · literary ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 29 000 · legal and administrative ≈ 55 439 · UN documents ≈ 454 736). Forms: public, publics, publique, publiques.

- Ziri deceived the **public**.
  Ziri a trompé le **public**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10836334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10836334) [\#11837993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837993))

- Good day, **public** order.”
  Bonjour, l'ordre **public**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25290)

- and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in **public** custody.
  mirent les mains sur les apôtres, et les jetèrent dans la prison **publique**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:18)

- This would increase **public** confidence in your policies.
  Cela inciterait le **public** à avoir confiance dans vos politiques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1539167)

- Offices **publics** de l’habitat
  Offices **publics** de l'habitat
  ([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 1418964)

## More sentences

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

- If you want to get elected, you're going to have to improve your **public** image.
  Si tu veux être élu, tu vas devoir soigner ton image.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#279971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279971) [\#696075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/696075))

- Do you know how to get there by **public** transportation?
  Sais-tu comment t'y rendre en transports en commun ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3390649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3390649) [\#12198320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12198320))

- He won the **public** speaking contest.
  Il a gagné le concours d'art oratoire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cheeseisdisgusting and cheeseisdisgusting · checked, community translation · [\#8770156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8770156) [\#8770158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8770158))

## 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

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