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# bonne — French to English

How French *bonne* 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: bonne (116 391), bonnes (45 272). By style: everyday 2 349 · literary 115 · biblical 181 · parliamentary 25 802 · legal and administrative 13 038 · UN documents 120 178.

## good

Used about 101 021 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 737 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 149 · parliamentary ≈ 14 514 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 926 · UN documents ≈ 77 615). Meaning: [good in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/good/).

- L'eau est **bonne**.
  The water is **good**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Ramses · checked, community translation · [\#403150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/403150) [\#883822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/883822))

- L'idée était **bonne**.
  The idea was a **good** one.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28805)

- Et ils y annoncèrent la **bonne** nouvelle.
  There they preached the **Good** News.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 14:7)

- C'est une très **bonne** nouvelle.
  This is very **good** news.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1500638)

- **BONNES** PRATIQUES DE LABORATOIRE (BPL)
  **GOOD** LABORATORY PRACTICE (GLP)
  ([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 68526)

## practices

Used about 8 964 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 075 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 630 · UN documents ≈ 6 259). Forms: practice, practices.

- Elle permet de garantir l'objectivité et le respect des règles et **bonnes** pratiques comptables internationales.
  This is the guarantee of objectivity and the way to ensure compliance with international accounting rules and best **practices**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1375214)

- l'évaluation de la conformité avec le code de **bonnes** pratiques,»;
  the assessment of compliance with the Code of **Practice**;’;
  ([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 4407922)

- Le Code de **bonne** pratique du barreau
  The Code of **Practice** for Lawyers
  ([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 18599786)

- Peut-on avoir recours à des méthodes transfrontalières et à des échanges de **bonnes** pratiques pour créer de nouvelles entreprises?
  Are there opportunities here to apply cross-border methods and best **practices** to create more new companies?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1322587)

- Elle comprendra un outil permettant de partager les informations et les **bonnes** pratiques.
  It will include a tool for pooling experience and best **practices**.
  ([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 3775584)

## right

Used about 6 953 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 147 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 300 · UN documents ≈ 2 504). Meaning: [right in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/right/).

- Je pense que nous sommes sur la **bonne** voie.
  I think we're on the **right** path.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5671881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5671881) [\#5857748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5857748))

- Voilà du beau tonnerre, à la **bonne** heure!
  That’s fine, first-class thunder; all **right**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20942)

- Son programme contient les **bonnes** priorités.
  Its programme contains the **right** priorities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1196812)

- Je suis convaincue que l &apos; ONU est sur la **bonne** voie.
  I am convinced that the United Nations is on the **right** track.
  ([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 8717969)

- Dans la plupart des cas, ses réponses sont **bonnes**.
  In most cases, his answers are **right**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#41231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41231) [\#399928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/399928))

## news

Used about 4 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4). Meaning: [news in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/news/).

- Ils le dépouillèrent, et emportèrent sa tête et ses armes. Puis ils firent annoncer ces **bonnes** nouvelles par tout le pays des Philistins à leurs idoles et au peuple.
  They stripped him and took his head and his armor, then sent into the land of the Philistines all around to carry the **news** to their idols and to the people.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 10:9)

- Ils coupèrent la tête de Saül, et enlevèrent ses armes. Puis ils firent annoncer ces **bonnes** nouvelles par tout le pays des Philistins dans les maisons de leurs idoles et parmi le peuple.
  They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the **news** to the house of their idols and to the people.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 31:9)

## More sentences

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

- Même si elle est petite, c'est tout de même une très **bonne** voiture.
  Even though it's small, it's still a great car.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1808150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1808150) [\#1809413](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1809413))

- Le cheval est vieux, mais en **bonne** santé.
  The horse is old, but healthy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and Huskion · checked, community translation · [\#6029338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6029338) [\#5235181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5235181))

- Une **bonne** odeur se dégageait du thé chaud et du pain grillé.
  A nice smell wafted from the hot tea and toast.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11085780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11085780) [\#12834295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12834295))

## 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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