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# urgent — English to French

How English *urgent* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: urgent (67 844), urgents (48). By style: everyday 96 · literary 1 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 5 641 · legal and administrative 1 570 · UN documents 60 578.

## urgence

Used about 61 549 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 583 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 341 · UN documents ≈ 55 530). Forms: urgence, urgent, urgente, urgents.

- Is it that **urgent**?
  Est-ce si **urgent** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2648507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2648507) [\#5391225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391225))

- For him to send word that he would call in the evening, something **urgent** and important must be in the wind; and the four Rolands looked at each other, disturbed by the announcement as folks of small fortune are wont to be at any intervention of a lawyer, with its suggestions of contracts, inheritance, lawsuits—all sorts of desirable or formidable contingencies.
  Pour qu'il eût annoncé sa visite dans la soirée, il fallait qu'il s'agît d'une chose **urgente** et importante; et les quatre Roland se regardèrent, troublés par cette nouvelle comme le sont les gens de fortune modeste à toute intervention d'un notaire, qui éveille une foule d'idées de contrats, d'héritages, de procès, de choses désirables ou redoutables.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 193)

- (Parliament adopted the **urgent** procedure)
  (Le Parlement décide l'**urgence**)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 890924)

- **Urgent** opinions and reports
  Avis et rapports **urgents**
  ([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 2064911)

- The need for action was **urgent**.
  117. Il fallait agir de toute **urgence**.
  ([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 28647892)

## homme

Used about 118 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 118).

- Mr President, on this Thursday, during this afternoon's topical and **urgent** debate, many of us here will obviously be delivering our final speeches on the subject of human rights.
  Monsieur le Président, nombre d'entre nous tiennent au cours du débat d'actualité de ce jeudi après-midi leur dernier discours sur le sujet des droits de l'**homme**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1999304)

## More sentences

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

- There are many **urgent** things to do.
  Il y a de nombreuses choses urgentes à faire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4474917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4474917) [\#5920406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5920406))

- The Egyptians were **urgent** with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
  Les Égyptiens pressaient le peuple, et avaient hâte de le renvoyer du pays, car ils disaient: Nous périrons tous.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 12:33)

- But they were **urgent** with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
  Mais ils insistèrent à grands cris, demandant qu’il fût crucifié. Et leurs cris l’emportèrent:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:23)

## 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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