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# standards — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: standards (229 754). By style: everyday 32 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 12 861 · legal and administrative 27 584 · UN documents 189 273.

## normes

Used about 178 579 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 10 182 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 435 · UN documents ≈ 141 955).

- The world's educational **standards** disappoint me.
  Les **normes** éducatives internationales me déçoivent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#533143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/533143) [\#1739038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1739038))

- Common legal **standards** are not enough.
  Les **normes** juridiques communes ne suffisent pas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1823041)

- **Standards** are available for:
  Les **normes** sont disponibles pour:
  ([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 3719065)

- 1.1 UNECE **standards** for meat products
  1.1 **Normes** CEE-ONU pour les produits carnés
  ([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 29748947)

- What they did next was bad, even by my **standards**.
  Ce qu'ils firent ensuite fut mauvais, même selon mes **normes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1681206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681206) [\#1681471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681471))

## doivent

Used about 4 211 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 268 · UN documents ≈ 3 943).

- And how should countries which already have national **standards** in this sector act?
  Et comment **doivent** se comporter les pays qui disposent déjà de réglementations nationales dans ce secteur?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1727621)

- In case other communication protocols **standards** are used, equivalent comprehensive explanation shall be provided.
  Si d &apos; autres protocoles de communication sont utilisés, les explications complètes équivalentes **doivent** alors être fournies.
  ([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 26373256)

## More sentences

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

- My living **standards** are as low as it gets.
  Mon niveau de vie est au ras des pâquerettes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#12426429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12426429) [\#2444375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2444375))

- He keeps harping on about declining **standards** in education.
  Il parle sans cesse du déclin du niveau de l'enseignement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by voxbubnya and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#295337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295337) [\#390170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390170))

- I have certain **standards**.
  J'ai certains principes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3305041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3305041) [\#5552250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5552250))

## 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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