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# quality — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: qualities (2 981), quality (188 947). By style: everyday 113 · literary 8 · parliamentary 14 969 · legal and administrative 31 798 · UN documents 145 040.

## qualité

Used about 158 221 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 111 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 12 474 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 804 · UN documents ≈ 114 823). Forms: qualité, qualités.

- It is of poor **quality**.
  C'est de mauvaise **qualité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#8397080](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8397080) [\#8322298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8322298))

- I scoff at your perfections, excellencies, and **qualities**.
  Je me fiche de vos perfections, excellences et **qualités**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14420)

- Reference was made to **quality**.
  Il a été fait référence à la **qualité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 377678)

- Durum wheat, high **quality**
  Blé dur, **qualité** haute
  ([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 1888484)

- Key skills and **qualities**
  Compétences et **qualités** essentielles
  ([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 21003088)

## More sentences

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

- We know by the flowers the **quality** of the fruit.
  On connait par les fleurs l'excellence du fruit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6698265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6698265) [\#6291782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6291782))

- But work is part of that **quality** of life!
  Mais, Mesdames et Messieurs, le travail n'est pas indigne!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1759067)

- Mrs in 't Veld, your report is of high **quality** and strikes a good balance.
  Madame in ‘t Veld, votre rapport est excellent et bien équilibré.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 808197)

## 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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