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# sensitive — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sensitive (36 787). By style: everyday 63 · literary 2 · parliamentary 4 279 · legal and administrative 3 213 · UN documents 29 230.

## sensible

Used about 13 700 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 59 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 388 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 945 · UN documents ≈ 7 307). Forms: sensible, sensibles.

- He is too **sensitive**.
  Il est trop **sensible**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#292111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292111) [\#131258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131258))

- At length Gervaise, the most curious of the three, and consequently the least **sensitive**, tried to make the recluse speak:
  Enfin Gervaise, la plus curieuse des trois, et par conséquent la moins **sensible**, essaya de faire parler la recluse:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3343)

- We are aware of how **sensitive** this area is.
  Nous savons à quel point ce domaine est **sensible**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1568702)

- **Sensitive** goods code (box 31)
  Code produits **sensibles** (case no 31)
  ([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 53118)

- (iv) Re-introduction of the guarantee for **sensitive** and other excluded goods
  iv) Réintroduction de la garantie pour les marchandises **sensibles** et les autres marchandises exclues
  ([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 6782954)

## More sentences

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

- My sister is **sensitive** about her thick legs.
  Ma sœur est susceptible à propos de ces grosses jambes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and JnRouvignac · checked, community translation · [\#251917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251917) [\#431178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/431178))

- The question is **sensitive**.
  La question est délicate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6900552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6900552) [\#6728157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6728157))

- He is very **sensitive** to cold.
  C'est un frileux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#294900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294900) [\#1485781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1485781))

## 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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