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# base — French to English

How French *base* 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: base (530 657), bases (43 347). By style: everyday 163 · literary 6 · biblical 71 · parliamentary 29 973 · legal and administrative 123 764 · UN documents 420 027.

## bases

Used about 131 622 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 4 371 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 941 · UN documents ≈ 96 256). Forms: base, bases.

- Sur quoi **bases**-tu cette supposition ?
  What do you **base** this assumption on?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7948100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7948100) [\#8538190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8538190))

- Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa **base**, Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.
  Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa **base**, Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.21
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13127)

- les dix **bases**, et les dix bassins sur les **bases**;
  the ten **bases**; the ten basins on the bases;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 7:43)

- Là encore, les **bases** légales sont créées.
  Once again, the legal **bases** exist to make these possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 71005)

- Définitions des **bases** d'étalonnage
  Definitions of the scaling **bases**
  ([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 3221435)

## basic

Used about 126 166 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 9 991 · legal and administrative ≈ 37 387 · UN documents ≈ 78 755). Forms: basic, basis. Meaning: [basic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/basic/).

- Ce sont toutes des compétences de **base**.
  These are all **basic** skills.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and meerkat · checked, community translation · [\#2630266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2630266) [\#4869127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4869127))

- La monnaie unique a été lancée sur des **bases** solides.
  The single currency has been established on a firm **basis**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1861549)

- **Base** juridique de l'appréciation
  Legal **basis** for the assessment
  ([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 860262)

- c) Formation professionnelle et technique de **base**;
  (c) **Basic** vocational and technical training;
  ([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 18977465)

- C'est l'un des instincts humains de **base**.
  It's one of the **basic** human instincts.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1519492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1519492) [\#1519894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1519894))

## databases

Used about 113 562 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 561 · legal and administrative ≈ 24 495 · UN documents ≈ 87 506).

- De plus, on crée une protection des logiciels et des **bases** de données.
  It also creates protection for software and **databases**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 12207)

- **Bases** de données de référence du matériel roulant
  The Rolling Stock Reference **Databases**
  ([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 3424761)

- e) Recherches dans les **bases** de données officielles;
  (f) Searches of official **databases**;
  ([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 20629158)

- La seconde concerne la nécessité de mettre en place des **bases** de données au niveau européen.
  The other is whether we should really set up information **databases** at the European level.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1817665)

- Gestion des **bases** de données centrales et collaboration
  Operation and cooperation of central **databases**
  ([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 3597954)

## legal

Used about 3 163 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 873 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 289). Meaning: [legal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/legal/).

- Pourtant, comme la rapporteur, nous ne pouvons pas accepter le choix de la **base** juridique.
  However, like the rapporteur, we cannot accept the choice of **legal** base.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1012871)

- Produits pour lesquels il existe une **base** juridique européenne applicable pour classer leur réaction au feu sans essais
  Products for which an applicable European **legal** base exists to classify their reaction to fire performance without testing
  ([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 4509040)

- Nous avons des lignes budgétaires, nous avons une **base** juridique et il nous reste à présent à recevoir l'argent nécessaire.
  We have Budget lines, we have a **legal** base, and now all we need is money.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 376169)

- Je me réjouis de la **base** juridique établie et du traitement détaillé de cette situation que permettront - je l'espère - ces nouvelles règles.
  I welcome the **legal** base being set and the comprehensive way the new rules will, I hope, address this situation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 10349)

- L'objectif de la proposition de la Commission à l'examen aujourd'hui est de moderniser le cadre juridique de **base** régissant la production de statistiques au niveau européen.
  The objective of the Commission proposal being debated today is to revise the basic **legal** framework governing the production of statistics at European level.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1164749)

## More sentences

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

- Un balourd qui se croit profond est encore pire qu'un balourd de **base**.
  A nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#758262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/758262) [\#3521324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3521324))

- Il confectionna une petite statue à **base** d'argile molle.
  He made a little statue out of soft clay.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CS · checked, community translation · [\#299346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/299346) [\#2099643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2099643))

- Le flambeau n'éclaire pas sa **base**.
  The torch does not light its own stand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#635910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/635910) [\#569232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/569232))

## 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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