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# system — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: system (745 097), systems (234 177). By style: everyday 263 · literary 14 · parliamentary 41 829 · legal and administrative 120 880 · UN documents 816 288.

## système

Used about 748 992 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 256 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 37 036 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 474 · UN documents ≈ 612 216). Forms: système, systèmes.

- Is the **system** linear?
  Le **système** est-il linéaire ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#781654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/781654) [\#781653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/781653))

- A whole European **system** crumbled away.
  Tout un **système** d'Europe croula.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7564)

- We have to build **systems** that are safe.
  Nous devons construire des **systèmes** qui soient sûrs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1542847)

- Heading Control **System** HCS
  **Système** de contrôle de route
  ([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 3554)

- 17. Integrated Management Information **System**
  **Système** intégré de gestion
  ([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 1393393)

## More sentences

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

- In short, **systems** of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.
  En résumé, les éthiques ne sont aussi qu'un langage des signes pour les émotions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1294317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1294317) [\#1295493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1295493))

- Biogas **systems** reduce methane emissions by transforming waste from livestock, crops, water and food into energy.
  Les installations de biogaz réduisent les émissions de méthane en transformant en énergie les déchets provenant du bétail, des cultures, de l'eau et de la nourriture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10244321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10244321) [\#10466083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10466083))

- We were passing through rocks of the transition or silurian \[1\] **system**.
  Nous étions en pleine époque de transition, en pleine période silurienne\[1\].
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1675)

## 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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