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# sample — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sample (37 549), samples (19 648). By style: everyday 34 · parliamentary 189 · legal and administrative 24 579 · UN documents 32 395.

## échantillon

Used about 45 959 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 128 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 507 · UN documents ≈ 24 296). Forms: échantillon, échantillons.

- How many **samples**?
  Combien y a-t-il d'**échantillons** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and BobbyLee · checked, community translation · [\#318306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/318306) [\#10484067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10484067))

- We have just heard a **sample**.
  Nous venons d'en entendre un **échantillon**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1709965)

- Go to **sample** B
  Passer à l'**échantillon** B
  ([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 5523025)

- Go to **sample** B
  Passer à l &apos; **échantillon** B
  ([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 24773955)

- This is a free **sample**.
  C'est un **échantillon** gratuit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2253257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2253257) [\#7849165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7849165))

## More sentences

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

- A preoperative **sample** is required.
  Il faudrait un prélèvement pré-opérationnel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362986) [\#11514788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11514788))

- I’ve re-implemented the htmlize program from the previous article entirely in C, including a plugin mechanism and the same two **sample** plugins.
  J'ai ré-implémenté entièrement en C le programme htmlize du précédent article, incluant un mécanisme de greffons ainsi que les deux greffons d'exemples.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1799066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1799066) [\#1799067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1799067))

- A preoperative **sample** is necessary.
  Il faudrait un prélèvement pré-opérationnel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13363051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13363051) [\#11514788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11514788))

## 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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