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# specific — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: specific (355 487), specifics (1 027). By style: everyday 45 · literary 1 · parliamentary 18 179 · legal and administrative 72 762 · UN documents 265 527.

## spécifiques

Used about 104 753 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 764 · legal and administrative ≈ 33 349 · UN documents ≈ 63 616). Forms: spécifique, spécifiques.

- The lexicon is more **specific**.
  Le lexique est plus **spécifique**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#12258284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12258284) [\#2792693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2792693))

- Their **specific** gravity in the human species results from something more than a combat.
  Leur poids **spécifique** dans le genre humain résulte de quelque chose de plus qu'un combat.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7459)

- It is not averages, it is **specifics**.
  Nous ne voulons pas de moyennes, mais des valeurs **spécifiques**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 135826)

- List of **specific** cases
  Liste des cas **spécifiques**
  ([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 2022952)

- **Specifics** applicable to armed forces personnel include:
  Les conditions **spécifiques** applicables au personnel militaire sont notamment:
  ([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 20443936)

## détails

Used about 20 272 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 894 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 548 · UN documents ≈ 13 830).

- Give me some **specifics**.
  Donne-moi des **détails**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3361283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3361283) [\#12964987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12964987))

- Mr Frattini was soft on **specifics**, but sharp in general.
  M. Frattini a été laxiste sur les **détails**, mais percutant en général.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 622801)

- **Specifics** of applicable test procedures for the hydrogen storage system are provided in Annex 3.
  On trouvera les **détails** des procédures applicables à l'annexe 3.
  ([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 5587128)

- **Specifics** of applicable test procedures for the hydrogen storage system are provided in paragraph 6.
  On trouvera les **détails** des procédures applicables au paragraphe 6.
  ([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 24708091)

- I shall not dwell too much on the **specifics** of the Lisbon Summit.
  Je ne m'étendrai pas trop sur les **détails** du Sommet de Lisbonne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 35942)

## mais

Used about 17 921 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 326 · UN documents ≈ 16 595).

- But now negotiations really have to get down to **specifics**.
  **Mais** les négociations doivent réellement maintenant entrer dans le vif du sujet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 967300)

- The **specifics** change from country to country - but the objectives are consistent:
  Ses modalités précises varient selon les pays, **mais** ses objectifs restent les mêmes:
  ([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 24029437)

- I do not want to open a debate, but perhaps Commissioner Patten would like to say a few words on the **specifics**.
  Je ne tiens pas à ouvrir un débat, **mais** peut-être le commissaire Patten souhaiterait-il s’exprimer sur ces points précis.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 591274)

- Workshop does not require **specific** sediment horizons but gives more **specifics** on methods
  L &apos; atelier ne demande pas des horizons sédimentaires précis **mais** précise les méthodes de mesure
  ([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 12380023)

- The **specific** nature of public agencies in the majority of Member States must be recognized, for reasons of both democracy and, notably, pluralism.
  Il faut reconnaître la spécificité des chaînes publiques dans la plupart des États membres, à la fois pour des raisons de démocratie, **mais** aussi de pluralisme, notamment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1770479)

## More sentences

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

- The operational reservist actively supports the armed forces during exercises or **specific** missions.
  Le réserviste opérationnel s’engage activement aux côtés des forces armées lors d’exercices ou de missions ponctuelles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362864) [\#13362863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362863))

- Are you looking for something **specific**?
  Cherchez-vous quelque chose en particulier ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5363432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5363432) [\#8064858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8064858))

- I want **specific** information.
  Je veux des informations précises.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by J\_S and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#18363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18363) [\#9710312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9710312))

## 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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