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# traditional — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: traditional (69 020). By style: everyday 37 · parliamentary 3 109 · legal and administrative 4 451 · UN documents 61 423.

## traditionnel

Used about 53 521 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 32 · parliamentary ≈ 2 526 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 616 · UN documents ≈ 47 347). Forms: traditionnel, traditionnelle, traditionnelles, traditionnels.

- I prefer the **traditional** recipe.
  Je préfère la recette **traditionnelle**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by robbieheslop and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4122387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4122387) [\#4123292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4123292))

- Moreover, indicating '**traditional** rosé' on the label is stupid.
  D'autre part, indiquer sur l'étiquette "rosé **traditionnel**" est stupide.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1265030)

- Protection of **traditional** terms
  Protection des mentions **traditionnelles**
  ([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 4888073)

- F.4 Recognize and use **traditional** knowledge
  F.4 Recenser et utiliser les connaissances **traditionnelles**
  ([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 6267537)

- Noh is a **traditional** Japanese art.
  Le nô est un art **traditionnel** japonais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#282277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282277) [\#129849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129849))

## More sentences

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

- As a writer, she does not fit into any of the **traditional** categories.
  Comme écrivain, elle ne peut pas être classée dans les catégories habituelles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#244301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244301) [\#1538578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538578))

- The maréchal des logis is a **traditional** rank among gendarmerie non-commissioned officers, inherited from military heritage.
  Le maréchal des logis est un grade emblématique des sous-officiers de la gendarmerie, hérité de la tradition militaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362923) [\#13362921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362921))

- It is **traditional** to wear black to a funeral.
  La tradition veut que l'on porte du noir à un enterrement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#274283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274283) [\#11216406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11216406))

## 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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