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Forms: secondaire, secondaires. - Peasants often have a **secondary** activity to augment their income. Les paysans exercent souvent une activité **secondaire** pour compléter leurs revenus. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1152259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152259) [\#486670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486670)) - "Because animal life existed upon the earth only in the **secondary** period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited by the rivers, and taken the place of the incandescent rocks of the primitive period." —Parce que la vie animale n'a existé sur la terre qu'aux périodes **secondaires**, lorsque le terrain sédimentaire a été formé par les alluvions, et a remplacé les roches incandescentes de l'époque primitive. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2642) - All other aspects are **secondary**. Tout le reste est **secondaire**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 93068) - **Secondary** checks for the process Contrôles **secondaires** pour le processus ([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 522057) - mssd is the mass of **secondary** diluent, kg mssd est la masse du diluant **secondaire**, en kg. ([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 26368697) ## enseignement Used about 3 579 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 18 · UN documents ≈ 3 561). - Many of the children coming from poor families or a rural environment do not attend any form of post-**secondary** education for financial reasons. De nombreux enfants issus de familles pauvres ou de zones rurales n'accèdent à aucune forme d'**enseignement** supérieur, faute de moyens financiers. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 972346) - Primary education 9-year education **Secondary** education **Enseignement** - cycle de 9 ans ([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 29416445) - (i) The number of industrial **secondary** education graduates increased from 85,356 in 1987 to 162,288 in 1993, i.e. an increase of 45.5 per cent. i) Le nombre des diplômés de l ' **enseignement** industriel du second degré est passé de 85 356 élèves en 1987 à 162 288 élèves en 1993, soit une augmentation de 45,5 %. ([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 5007141) - Read Understand Speak Write Language Easily Not easily Easily Not easily Fluently Not fluently Easily Not easily C. University degree or equivalent or post-**secondary** educational C. Diplôme(s) délivré(s) par une université ou certificat(s) équivalent(s) délivré(s) par un établissement d ' **enseignement** supérieur, ou autre(s) certificat(s) d ' études postsecondaires6 ([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 2203271) ## écoles Used about 1 187 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 187). - 121. Universities and **secondary** schools have also been closed as a result of the conflict. 121. Les **écoles** et universités ont aussi été fermées en raison du conflit. ([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 6289593) ## primaire Used about 35 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 35). - Similarly, anything not contained in primary or **secondary** legislation is meaningless as far as the Union is concerned. De la même manière, tout ce qui ne se trouve pas dans le droit **primaire** et dans le droit dérivé n'existe pas dans le monde de l'Union. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 314445) - Having a charter which has the force of primary law opens the way, in principle, for **secondary** legislation (regulations and directives) based on the charter. Avec une charte de droit **primaire**, on ouvre en principe la voie à un droit dérivé (règlements et directives) reposant sur la charte. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 379193) ## lycée Used about 13 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13). - What **secondary** school do you go to? À quel **lycée** vas-tu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#11811855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11811855) [\#405958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/405958)) - Which **secondary** school do you go to? À quel **lycée** vas-tu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#11811856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11811856) [\#405958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/405958)) - What **secondary** school do you go to? Dans quel **lycée** es-tu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11811855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11811855) [\#1087606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1087606)) - Which **secondary** school do you go to? Dans quel **lycée** es-tu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11811856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11811856) [\#1087606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1087606)) - The **secondary** school has a sports hall. Le **lycée** dispose d'un gymnase. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#10853930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10853930) [\#946055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/946055)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He got all his information from **secondary** sources. Il a obtenu toutes ses informations de sources officieuses. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#299735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/299735) [\#132636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132636)) - Must the woman always play the **secondary** role? La femme doit-elle toujours jouer le second rôle ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jesse and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#267312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267312) [\#491114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/491114)) - What a drink is called is probably of **secondary** importance as far as young consumers are concerned, and will probably not make any difference to the problem. La dénomination d'une boisson a probablement une importance accessoire pour les jeunes consommateurs et cela ne changera rien au problème. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 940414) ## 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 Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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