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# supreme — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: supreme (51 692). By style: everyday 12 · literary 17 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 633 · legal and administrative 1 154 · UN documents 49 873.

## suprême

Used about 42 065 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 488 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 034 · UN documents ≈ 40 522).

- What is the **supreme** being?
  Quel est l'être **suprême** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11333857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11333857) [\#11333904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11333904))

- Then Fauchelevent took a **supreme** resolve.
  Alors Fauchelevent prit une résolution **suprême**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12161)

- As a former **supreme** court judge, I know what I am talking about.
  En tant qu'ancien juge **suprême**, je sais de quoi je parle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 379110)

- Liaises with the Taliban **Supreme** Council.
  Assure la liaison avec le Conseil **suprême** des Taliban.
  ([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 4155101)

- **Supreme** Iraqi Criminal Tribunal
  La Cour pénale **suprême** d &apos; Iraq
  ([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 14667946)

## cour

Used about 1 113 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 26 · legal and administrative ≈ 48 · UN documents ≈ 1 039).

- Thirteen parties have been buried by **Supreme** Court judgments.
  Treize partis ont été enterrés par des arrêts de la **Cour** constitutionnelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1330815)

- Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție (**Supreme** Court)
  Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție (Haute **Cour** de cassation et de justice)
  ([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 349812)

- Were proceedings suspended pending the decision of the **Supreme** Court?
  Le procès en cours estil suspendu en attendant la décision de la Haute **Cour**?
  ([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 7890831)

- However, we are all well aware of the relations between the European Parliament and the **supreme** court of the Council of Europe.
  On sait la relation qu' a le Parlement européen avec la Haute **cour** du Conseil de l' Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 241684)

- Parchetul de pe lângă Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție (Prosecutor's Office Attached to the **Supreme** Court)
  Parchetul de pe lângă Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție (parquet près la Haute **Cour** de cassation et de justice )
  ([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 255701)

## tribunal

Used about 1 039 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 039).

- The Federal **Supreme** Court considers that the right to education is programmatic by nature and therefore is not directly applicable but, rather, is addressed principally to the lawmaker.
  Selon le **Tribunal** fédéral, le droit à l &apos; éducation a un caractère programmatique; il n &apos; est donc pas directement applicable, mais s &apos; adresse avant tout au législateur.
  ([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 8982361)

## More sentences

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

- **Supreme** Leaders of the Islamic Revolution die, too.
  Les Guides suprêmes de la Révolution islamique meurent aussi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13787038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13787038) [\#13783651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13783651))

- This is a matter of **supreme** importance.
  C'est là une question d'une importance cruciale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by voxbubnya and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#55706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55706) [\#3448100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3448100))

- Poetry and music are the **supreme** pleasures of life. They are the fragrance of all knowledge.
  Poésie et musique sont les suprêmes délices des choses. Elles sont le bouquet de toutes les connaissances.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13568515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13568515) [\#13568148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13568148))

## 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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