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# africaine — French to English

How French *africaine* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: africaine (85 696), africaines (9 664). By style: everyday 11 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 300 · legal and administrative 3 292 · UN documents 90 756.

## african

Used about 91 565 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 286 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 292 · UN documents ≈ 86 975). Forms: africa, african. Meaning: [african in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/african/).

- Mon amie est nord-**africaine**.
  My friend is North **African**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12976300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976300) [\#12976335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976335))

- Le capitaine, enivré, colla ses lèvres ardentes à ces belles épaules **africaines**.
  The intoxicated captain pressed his ardent lips to those lovely **African** shoulders.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4791)

- Le Nigéria est une grande puissance **africaine**.
  Nigeria is a great power in **Africa**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610880)

- Peste porcine **africaine**/classique
  **African**/Classical swine fever
  ([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 416057)

- BAfD Banque **africaine** de développement
  AfDB **African** Development Bank
  ([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 10549832)

## More sentences

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

- Récemment, quinze **Africaine**, abordés par la Garde civile espagnole, ont trouvé la mort au large des côtes des îles Canaries et cette semaine, un autre est décédé.
  Recently, fifteen Africans died when the Spanish Civil Guard attempted to board their ship off the coasts of the Canary Islands and this week another person has died.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 204841)

- Une étroite collaboration sera encouragée avec la Mission de l &apos; Union **africaine** pour lui permettre de mieux assurer la protection des femmes et des filles.
  113. Strong collaboration will be fostered with AMIS in order to further expand its capacity to provide protection to women and girls in Darfur.
  ([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 15979408)

- :: Élaborer un protocole additionnel à la Charte **africaine** des droits de l &apos; homme et des peuples
  :: To develop an additional protocol to the Charter for the protection of indigenous peoples in the continent
  ([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 18994133)

## Grammar

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