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# élus — French to English

How French *élus* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: élus (25 516). By style: everyday 6 · literary 1 · biblical 25 · parliamentary 2 000 · legal and administrative 330 · UN documents 23 154.

## elected

Used about 23 550 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 542 · legal and administrative ≈ 296 · UN documents ≈ 21 707). Meaning: [elected in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/elected/).

- Ils ont tous été **élus** démocratiquement.
  They were all democratically **elected**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13015496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13015496) [\#13529141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13529141))

- Cosette et Marius avaient été **élus**.
  Cosette and Marius had been **elected**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29709)

- Mais ceux-ci ne réunissent que des **élus**.
  However, these groups include only **elected** members.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1660969)

- Ils sont **élus** à la majorité des suffrages exprimés.
  They shall be **elected** by a majority of the votes cast.
  ([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 2064964)

- Eh bien, si nous sommes **élus**, nous serons prêts à servir.
  And if we are **elected**, we will be ready to serve.
  ([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 21876706)

## members

Used about 607 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 125 · UN documents ≈ 482).

- Nous accueillerons également 162 nouveaux **élus** provenant des nouveaux États membres.
  At the same time we will have 162 new **Members** from the new Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 453000)

- b) Collèges socioprofessionnels: 30 membres **élus**.
  (b) Functional constituencies: returned 30 **members**.
  ([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 24169177)

- S'agit-il d'une volonté de mettre à l'écart certains **élus**, dont ceux du Front national, au risque de faire le jeu de nos adversaires ici présents?
  Is this a desire to sideline some **Members**, including those from the National Front, for fear of playing into the hands of our opponents here?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1934768)

- Pour nombre d'**élus**, cette coopération culturelle risque de privilégier les grands réseaux culturels existants et d'éloigner l'action culturelle du citoyen.
  Many **Members** consider that this cultural cooperation risks giving priority to existing major cultural networks and distancing cultural activity from the citizen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1911175)

## presidents

Used about 90 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 83 · legal and administrative ≈ 7).

- L'un et l'autre étaient des candidats, et des **élus**, idéaux.
  Both of them were ideal candidates, and potential **Presidents**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 933011)

- Le Président et les vice-présidents du Comité seront ensuite **élus** par l’Assemblée à la majorité simple.
  The assembly shall then elect the president and the vice-**presidents** of the Committee by a simple majority.
  ([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 2066158)

- Je déclare donc vice-présidents **élus** du Parlement européen les candidats que je viens de nommer. Je les félicite pour leur élection.
  I therefore declare the candidates I have just named to be Vice-**Presidents**-elect of the European Parliament and I congratulate them on this election.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 600538)

## term

Used about 14 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 14). Meaning: [term in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/term/).

- Le président et les vice-présidents sont **élus** pour un mandat de cinq ans renouvelable une fois.
  The **term** of office of the Chair and of the deputy chairs shall be five years and be renewable once.
  ([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 3981214)

- Le président et le vice-président sont **élus** pour un mandat de deux ans; ils sont éligibles pour deux autres mandats consécutifs.
  The Chairperson and Deputy-Chairperson shall hold office for a **term** of 2 years and shall be eligible for re-election for up to 2 further consecutive terms of office.
  ([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 2405370)

## More sentences

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

- Quand le destin appelle, les **élus** n'ont pas le choix.
  When destiny calls, the chosen have no choice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dimitris and dimitris · checked, community translation · [\#1650392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650392) [\#1650395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650395))

- Qui accusera les **élus** de Dieu? C’est Dieu qui justifie!
  Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 8:33)

- Nous savons, frères bien-aimés de Dieu, que vous avez été **élus**,
  We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TH 1:4)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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