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# supplementary — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: supplementaries (39), supplementary (31 663). By style: literary 1 · parliamentary 2 005 · legal and administrative 5 243 · UN documents 24 453.

## supplémentaire

Used about 13 328 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 637 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 992 · UN documents ≈ 10 698). Forms: supplémentaire, supplémentaires.

- At each hour of the day three **supplementary** strokes sound from the church bell of the convent.
  À chaque heure du jour, trois coups **supplémentaires** sonnent à la cloche de l'église du couvent.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10433)

- **Supplementary** estimates for 2002 - DAB 1/2002
  État prévisionnel **supplémentaire** pour 2002 - BRS 1/2002
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 295022)

- Design of the **supplementary** table
  Conception du tableau **supplémentaire**
  ([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 2943527)

- 10. **Supplementary** provisions relating to audits
  10. Dispositions **supplémentaires** visant les audits
  ([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 7469366)

- I thank the Member for her **supplementary** question.
  Madame la Députée, je vous remercie pour votre question **supplémentaire**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 37194)

## complémentaire

Used about 12 020 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 038 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 831 · UN documents ≈ 8 151). Forms: complémentaire, complémentaires.

- I have no **supplementary** question.
  Je n'ai pas de question **complémentaire**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 897197)

- **Supplementary** information to be sent to Member States
  Les informations **complémentaires** à envoyer aux États membres
  ([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 844338)

- **Supplementary** report of Egypt
  Rapport **complémentaire** de l &apos; Egypte
  ([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 285070)

- Mr Martin had a **supplementary** question.
  M. Martin avait une question **complémentaire**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 713541)

- **SUPPLEMENTARY** INFORMATION SHEET ON AID TO PRODUCER GROUPS
  FICHE D'INFORMATION **COMPLÉMENTAIRE** SUR L'AIDE AUX GROUPEMENTS DE PRODUCTEURS
  ([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 1092564)

## More sentences

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

- I sat in on Question Time yesterday and the President-in-Office refused to answer virtually every single **supplementary** question put to him.
  J’ai assisté à l’heure des questions hier et le Président en exercice du Conseil a refusé de répondre à pratiquement chaque question qui lui a été soumise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 624055)

- I answered the written questions but then, **supplementary** questions were raised by the original questioners.
  J'ai répondu aux questions écrites mais les premiers auteurs des questions en ont posé de nouvelles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1809553)

- It is an essential **supplementary** instrument to the second directive on the internal market in gas.
  Il s’agit d’un instrument essentiel qui vient s’ajouter à la deuxième directive sur le marché intérieur du gaz.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 585757)

## Grammar

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