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# satellite — English to French

How English *satellite* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: satellite (26 753), satellites (6 520). By style: everyday 20 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 210 · legal and administrative 2 742 · UN documents 29 300.

## satellites

Used about 29 386 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 109 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 314 · UN documents ≈ 25 943). Forms: satellite, satellites.

- Where are the **satellites**?
  Où sont les **satellites** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ulyssemc1 and Zaghawa · checked, community translation · [\#619762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/619762) [\#1541807](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1541807))

- As they advance themselves, they cause their **satellites** to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
  En avançant eux-mêmes, ils font progresser leurs **satellites**; c'est tout un système solaire en marche.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1076)

- We have already heard about launchers and **satellites**.
  On a déjà parlé des lanceurs et des **satellites**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 451296)

- For reception via **satellite**
  pour réception par **satellite**
  ([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 4416388)

- E. Dual use of **satellites** . 56 12
  E. Double usage des **satellites** 56 13
  ([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 1511815)

## terre

Used about 305 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 305).

- IV. Matters relating to remote sensing of the Earth by **satellite**, including applications for developing countries and monitoring of the Earth &apos; s environment
  IV. Questions relatives à la télédétection de la **Terre**, y compris ses applications dans les pays en développement pour la surveillance de l &apos; environnement terrestre
  ([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 20076065)

## More sentences

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

- The discharge process should be simplified and rationalised for **satellite** agencies, which have increased in number (from 8 in 2000 to 20 in 2006) and now represent a total budget of around EUR 1 billion.
  La procédure de décharge devrait être simplifiée et rationalisée pour les agences décentralisées qui sont en augmentation (8 en 2000 à 20 en 2006) et représentent un budget total d'environ 1 milliard d'euros.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1063760)

- Mr President, Commissioner, the creation of a **satellite** positioning and navigation network is a very important part of the European Union's cohesion strategy.
  Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, la réalisation d'un réseau de positionnement et de nagivation est un point très important de la stratégie de cohésion de l'Union européenne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1938298)

- I therefore applaud the fact that the **satellite** system can be used as a fundamental part of monitoring.
  J'applaudis donc aussi au fait que l'on puisse utiliser au mieux le système satellitaire comme élément fondamental de contrôle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1863656)

## 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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