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# reference — English to French

How English *reference* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reference (194 824), references (26 621). By style: everyday 13 · literary 3 · parliamentary 7 305 · legal and administrative 58 040 · UN documents 156 084.

## référence

Used about 126 448 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 4 718 · legal and administrative ≈ 50 180 · UN documents ≈ 71 539). Forms: référence, références.

- What are your **references**?
  Quelles sont tes **références** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#12429390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12429390) [\#12429378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12429378))

- Lastly, it is a **reference** document.
  Enfin, c'est un texte de **référence**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 215042)

- Use of **reference** materials
  Utilisation de matériaux de **référence**
  ([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 1802498)

- Approval **reference**: GB-SC
  **Référence** d &apos; approbation GB-SC
  ([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 11218257)

- He made **reference** to my book.
  Il a fait **référence** à mon livre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#297952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297952) [\#132316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132316))

## jour

Used about 24 388 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 24 388).

- **References** for the sixtieth session (agenda item 77)
  (point 77 de l &apos; ordre du **jour**)
  ([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 14574349)

- **References** for the fifty-ninth session (agenda item 5)
  (point 5 de l &apos; ordre du **jour**)
  ([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 12959268)

- **References** for the sixty-fourth session (agenda item 7)
  (point 7 de l &apos; ordre du **jour**)
  ([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 21624419)

- **References** for the sixty-sixth session (agenda item 90)
  (point 90 de l &apos; ordre du **jour**)
  ([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 25326196)

- **References** for the sixty-fifth session (agenda item 127)
  (point 127 de l &apos; ordre du **jour**)
  ([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 23498954)

## annexe

Used about 3 856 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 605 · UN documents ≈ 3 252).

- **References** to third countries in respect of which the situation has changed as regards those criteria should be transferred from one annex to the other, as appropriate.
  La mention de certains pays tiers dont la situation a évolué au regard de ces critères devrait être transférée d'une **annexe** à l'autre, en tant que de besoin.
  ([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 4325366)

- The full terms of **reference** are provided in annex 1.
  Le texte complet du mandat figure dans l &apos; **annexe** 1.
  ([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 5494391)

- The redeployments, with their justification given through **reference** to the relevant paragraph(s) of the present annex, are as follows:
  Les redéploiements ainsi que leur justification donnée en se référant au(x) paragraphe(s) pertinent(s) de la présente **annexe** sont les suivants :
  ([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 15360309)

## point

Used about 757 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 152 · legal and administrative ≈ 605).

- Finally, my last point, with **reference** to the specific request of the rapporteur, Mr Wijsenbeek, ' But why?
  J'en arrive au dernier **point**, enfin, en me référant à la demande explicite du rapporteur, M. Wijsenbeek: »Mais pourquoi?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1840072)

- in Part 1, the following **references** are inserted:
  au **point** 1), les mentions suivantes sont insérées:
  ([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 3314786)

- I have agreed to remove such **references** from my resolution for the sake of consistency with the approach adopted in the other enlargement reports.
  J' ai accepté de retirer ce **point** de ma résolution dans un souci de cohérence avec l' approche adoptée par les autres rapports d' élargissement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 222391)

## More sentences

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

- Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved **reference** now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power.
  Commençons par le capitalisme, un mot largement démodé. On se réfère désormais au système de marché. Ce changement minimise - voire supprime - le rôle de la richesse dans le système économique et social. Et il se débarrasse de la connotation négative qui remonte à Marx. Au lieu des propriétaires du capital ou de leurs préposés au pouvoir, nous avons le rôle admirablement impersonnel des forces du marché. Il serait difficile d'imaginer un changement de terminologie plus dans l'intérêt de ceux à qui l'argent confère du pouvoir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6287099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6287099) [\#8250132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8250132))

- The intelligence analyst within the DGSI processes and cross-**references** strategic data from multiple sources.
  L’analyste renseignement au sein de la DGSI traite et croise les informations stratégiques issues de sources multiples.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362945) [\#13362944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362944))

- Nothing of all that could bear any **reference** to Cosette, who was a lily.
  Rien de tout cela ne pouvait se rapporter à Cosette qui était un lys.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22617)

## Grammar

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