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# unit — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: unit (150 847), units (86 276). By style: everyday 27 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 950 · legal and administrative 37 266 · UN documents 197 877.

## unités

Used about 115 983 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 1 198 · legal and administrative ≈ 24 068 · UN documents ≈ 90 694). Forms: unité, unités.

- The box contains 20 **units**.
  La boîte contient 20 **unités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and THURET · checked, community translation · [\#1334905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1334905) [\#3660041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3660041))

- Cows, sheep and pigs are more than production **units**.
  Les vaches, les moutons et les porcs sont plus que des **unités** de production.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 178904)

- The length of the **unit**.
  la longueur de l'**unité**,
  ([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 3421788)

- Number of **units**: X 50
  Nombre d &apos; **unités** X 50
  ([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 530824)

- Who's in command of this **unit**?
  Qui commande cette **unité** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2483374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2483374) [\#9576576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9576576))

## groupe

Used about 28 857 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 28 857).

- Chief/Technical Compliance Quality Assurance **Unit** (P-3) (para. 195 (a))
  Chef du **Groupe** de la qualité technique (P-3) \[par. 195 a)\]
  ([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 20019454)

- – Assist the Training **Unit** in its training of selected standby forces
  – Aider le **Groupe** de la formation à former les effectifs de certaines forces en attente
  ([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 5612493)

- New exception reports have recently been created to assist the **Unit** in its efforts.
  De nouveaux états des anomalies ont récemment été institués pour aider le **Groupe** dans ses efforts.
  ([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 3550610)

- (a) The functions of the Gender **Unit** be merged with those of the Human Rights **Unit**;
  a) Fusionner les fonctions du **Groupe** de l &apos; égalité des sexes avec celles du Groupe des droits de l &apos; homme;
  ([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 27106803)

- In addition, the **Unit** has recourse to specialized contributions from relevant departments.
  En outre, lorsqu &apos; il s &apos; agit de discours spécialisés, le **Groupe** fait appel aux départements compétents.
  ([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 10136804)

## prix

Used about 6 740 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 658 · UN documents ≈ 2 061).

- The proposal comprised, in addition to the compulsory indication of the sale price, the indication, where relevant, of price per standard **unit** - per kilo, or per litre.
  Celle-ci prévoyait, outre l'indication obligatoire du **prix** de vente, le cas échéant, celle du prix par quantité standard, par kilo ou par litre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1785448)

- PRC **unit** price in EUR/kg
  **Prix** unitaire chinois en euros/kg
  ([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 662571)

- **Unit** price in Euro
  **Prix** unitaire en euros
  ([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 23225234)

- Average **unit** prices of the Union industry
  **Prix** unitaires moyens de l’industrie de l’Union
  ([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 2374959)

- US **unit** price in USD/kg (between 愦灭※ and)
  **Prix** unitaire américain en USD/kg (fourchette)
  ([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 662575)

## More sentences

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

- The family is the basic **unit** of society.
  La famille est le noyau de la société.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#24075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24075) [\#3301290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3301290))

- "Oy, what's up, Tanji?" "I'm having trouble because there's a **unit** I didn't take at my last school."
  «Hey, ça roule Tanji ?» «J'ai des problèmes parce qu'il y a un cours que je n'ai pas pris à mon école précédente.».
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#394383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/394383) [\#394447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/394447))

- The family is the fundamental **unit** of society.
  La famille est l'élément fondamental de la société.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by garborg and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4769375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4769375) [\#11224430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11224430))

## 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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