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# representative — English to French

How English *representative* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: representative (374 414), representatives (254 640). By style: everyday 26 · literary 2 · parliamentary 12 130 · legal and administrative 31 282 · UN documents 585 614.

## représentant

Used about 451 409 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 8 971 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 506 · UN documents ≈ 420 910). Forms: représentant, représentants.

- We've chosen our **representative**.
  Nous avons nommé notre **représentant**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by absvfx and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9037352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9037352) [\#1602587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1602587))

- The former **representative** of the people made no reply.
  Le vieux **représentant** du peuple ne répondit pas.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 938)

- I say that as a **representative** of a minority.
  Je parle moi-même en tant que **représentant** d’une minorité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 581401)

- Each Member shall appoint two **representatives**;
  Chaque État membre désigne deux **représentants**;
  ([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 3181466)

- (v) One **representative** from an Asian State;
  v) Un **représentant** d &apos; un État d &apos; Asie;
  ([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 16300249)

## président

Used about 12 454 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 253 · UN documents ≈ 12 200).

- Germany's Federal President has only **representative** tasks.
  Le **Président** fédéral de l'Allemagne n'a que des tâches représentatives.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13917753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13917753) [\#13917754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13917754))

- The new President-in-Office of the Council and the High **Representative**, in particular, are also more like political lightweights.
  Avant tout, le nouveau **président** du Conseil et la haute représentante sont, eux aussi, plutôt considérés comme des poids plumes politiques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1335386)

- Letter dated 10 July 1996 from the Permanent **Representative**
  Lettre datée du 10 juillet 1996, adressée au **Président** de
  ([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 2313639)

- The Heads of State or Government have chosen Herman Van Rompuy as the first President of the European Council and Catherine Ashton as High **Representative**.
  Les chefs d'État et de gouvernement ont choisi Herman Van Rompuy comme premier **président** du Conseil européen et Catherine Ashton comme haute représentante.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1307756)

- The President: I thank the **representative** of Switzerland for her statement.
  Le **Président** (parle en anglais): Je remercie la représentante de la Suisse de sa déclaration.
  ([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 25969431)

## je

Used about 6 858 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 758 · UN documents ≈ 6 100).

- I have received your letter and have already contacted the British Permanent **Representative**.
  J'ai bien reçu votre lettre et **je** suis déjà intervenue auprès de la représentation britannique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 8843)

- I call on the **representative** of Canada to introduce draft resolution A/48/L.47.
  **Je** donne la parole à la représentante du Canada, qui va présenter le projet de résolution A/48/L.47.
  ([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 551684)

- I speak as a **representative** of a region that was not able to choose its fate after the war.
  **Je** prends la parole en tant que représentante d'une région qui n'a pas pu choisir son destin après la guerre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 994826)

- I am sorry that the **representative** of the Council has repeated that language and that lack of balance in her introduction this morning.
  **Je** déplore le fait que la représentante du Conseil a répété ces propos dans son discours introductif ce matin et qu’on y trouve le même déséquilibre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 838420)

- As an elected **representative** from Estonia, I would like to present some examples from Estonia concerning two Swedish banks that are operating in Estonia.
  En tant qu'élue estonienne, **je** voudrais présenter quelques exemples observés en Estonie dans deux banques suédoises qui opèrent dans le pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1274843)

## More sentences

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

- The king has **representative** functions, but does not govern.
  Le roi a des fonctions de représentation, mais il ne régit pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13564552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13564552) [\#13595618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13595618))

- Monet's art is **representative** of Impressionism.
  L'art de Monet est représentatif de l’impressionnisme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Goofy · checked, community translation · [\#30348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30348) [\#511296](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/511296))

- Our **representative** argued against the new tax plan.
  Notre député a argumenté contre le nouveau plan fiscal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kremel and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · [\#23360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23360) [\#332036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/332036))

## 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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