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# target — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: target (80 932), targets (52 734). By style: everyday 56 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 7 583 · legal and administrative 14 651 · UN documents 111 374.

## objectif

Used about 64 531 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 6 003 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 478 · UN documents ≈ 51 046). Forms: objectif, objectifs.

- Which is your **target**?
  Quel est ton **objectif** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#757567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/757567) [\#1585683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1585683))

- Will they achieve this ambitious **target**?
  Atteindront-ils cet **objectif** ambitieux?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 772629)

- FAB **TARGET** EN-ROUTE CAPACITY
  **OBJECTIF** FAB CAPACITÉ EN 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 3813001)

- The **target** was therefore surpassed.
  L &apos; **objectif** a ainsi été dépassé.
  ([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 24612947)

- Which is your **target**?
  Quel est votre **objectif** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#757567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/757567) [\#2766129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2766129))

## cible

Used about 28 823 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 189 · UN documents ≈ 23 203). Forms: cible, cibles.

- What's the **target**?
  Quelle est la **cible** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#2234126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2234126) [\#2782441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2782441))

- We should not think that we in Europe are not **targets**.
  Il ne faut pas que nous nous imaginions que nous ne sommes pas des **cibles** en Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 237147)

- any other current shareholder of the **target** entity;
  tout autre actionnaire actuel de l'entité **cible**;
  ([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 4407551)

- Baseline: to be determined; **Target**: 75%
  Point de référence : à préciser; **Cible** : 75%
  ([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 24401437)

- I missed the **target**.
  J'ai manqué la **cible**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8397705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8397705) [\#8744681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8744681))

## atteindre

Used about 1 239 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79 · UN documents ≈ 1 160).

- The Commission therefore welcomes measures taken by Member States to reduce national emissions in order to meet their burden-sharing **target**.
  La Commission se félicite, par conséquent, des mesures prises par les États membres pour réduire les émissions nationales afin d’**atteindre** leur cible de partage des responsabilités.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 800533)

- 277. UNICEF fund-raising in 1993 focused on reaching the **targets** set in the medium-term plan for 1993-1996.
  277. En 1993, l &apos; UNICEF s &apos; est attachée essentiellement à **atteindre** les montants prévus dans le plan à moyen terme pour 1993-1996.
  ([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 1222679)

## More sentences

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

- Adriano worked at **Target**.
  Adriano travaillait chez Target.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11724973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11724973) [\#11725187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11725187))

- Diego decided to leave **Target**.
  Diego a décidé de démissionner de Target.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11748520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11748520) [\#11756841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756841))

- What is the **target** audience?
  À quel public ça s'adresse ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13651737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13651737) [\#13651740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13651740))

## 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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