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# unilateral — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: unilateral (23 265). By style: parliamentary 1 206 · legal and administrative 367 · UN documents 21 692.

## unilatérale

Used about 22 104 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 980 · legal and administrative ≈ 336 · UN documents ≈ 20 788). Forms: unilatéral, unilatérale, unilatérales, unilatéraux.

- It did not apply **unilateral** measures.
  Elle n’a pas appliqué de mesures **unilatérales**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 723617)

- **unilateral** and national projects;
  les projets **unilatéraux** et nationaux;
  ([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 872177)

- A. Validity and duration of **unilateral** acts
  A. Validité et durée de l &apos; acte **unilatéral**
  ([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 14938895)

- The Council has opted for a highly **unilateral** approach.
  Le Conseil opte pour une approche tout à fait **unilatérale**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 404267)

- at the **unilateral** request of the tax authorities
  à la demande **unilatérale** des autorités fiscales
  ([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 4408949)

## More sentences

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

- If America were to adopt a **unilateral** position in favour of one side or the other the peace process would come to an end.
  Si l'Amérique venait à prendre position en faveur de l'une ou l'autre partie, c'en serait fini du processus de paix.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1750750)

- Even following consultation with a Foreign Affairs Minister, or various Foreign Affairs Ministers, a **unilateral** decision was taken to cancel flights.
  Même après concertation avec un ministre des affaires étrangères ou plusieurs ministres des affaires étrangères, il a été décidé unilatéralement d’annuler des vols.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 542373)

- How does this relate to the EU' s ambition to be able to take **unilateral** decisions?
  Comment concilier cela avec l' ambition de l' Union européenne de prendre seule ses décisions ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2032611)

## Grammar

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