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# caractéristiques — French to English

How French *caractéristiques* 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: caractéristiques (73 875). By style: everyday 13 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 714 · legal and administrative 25 457 · UN documents 46 690.

## characteristics

Used about 37 771 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 893 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 441 · UN documents ≈ 20 427). Forms: characteristic, characteristics.

- La Chine a des traits **caractéristiques** chinois.
  China has Chinese **characteristics**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and eastasiastudent · checked, community translation · [\#2367530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367530) [\#2508165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2508165))

- À chacun de ces monuments **caractéristiques** se rattache par une similitude de goût, de façon et d'attitude, une certaine quantité de maisons éparses dans divers quartiers et que l'oeil du connaisseur distingue et date aisément.
  To each of these **characteristic** monuments there is attached by a similarity of taste, fashion, and attitude, a certain number of houses scattered about in different quarters and which the eyes of the connoisseur easily distinguishes and furnishes with a date.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1988)

- La mer Baltique possède ses propres **caractéristiques**.
  The Baltic Sea has its own **characteristics**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 727539)

- **Caractéristiques** du système de refroidissement par air
  Air-cooling equipment **characteristics**
  ([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 5535171)

- **CARACTÉRISTIQUES** DE LA BARRIÈRE MOBILE DÉFORMABLE
  MOBILE DEFORMABLE BARRIER **CHARACTERISTICS**
  ([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 9891230)

## features

Used about 11 147 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 357 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 061 · UN documents ≈ 9 727).

- De toutes les **caractéristiques** qui attirent les acheteurs de maisons, l'emplacement est probablement le plus important.
  Of all the **features** that attract home buyers, location is probably the most important.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3978373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3978373) [\#4883533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4883533))

- Les cinq républiques centrasiatiques présentent chacune des **caractéristiques** très différentes.
  The various Central Asian republics present very different **features**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1036404)

- Description des principales **caractéristiques**
  Description of main **features**
  ([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 1274877)

- B. **Caractéristiques** du système
  B. **Features** of the export control system
  ([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 8565773)

- Résumez l'information en sélectionnant et rapportant les principales **caractéristiques**, et faites des comparaisons lorsque c'est pertinent.
  Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main **features**, and make comparisons where relevant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dr\_herr and rayshih715 · checked, community translation · [\#6151785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6151785) [\#6155478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6155478))

## following

Used about 6 188 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 4 243 · UN documents ≈ 1 945).

- b. matériels présentant toutes les **caractéristiques** suivantes:
  b. Equipment having all of the **following**:
  ([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 4227965)

- Cette pièce porte le code suivant: 80815000113201040050. **Caractéristiques**
  This item has the **following** UNECE code: 80815000113201040050
  ([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 24604516)

- a. Machines-outils de tournage, présentant toutes les **caractéristiques** suivantes:
  a. Machine tools for turning having all of the **following**:
  ([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 3742018)

- Les **caractéristiques** des freins du véhicule soumis à l &apos; homologation du type sont contrôlées; il doit être satisfait aux critères énoncés ciaprès:
  The brake specification of the vehicle to be type approved shall be verified by satisfying each of the **following** design criteria: Item
  ([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 15565625)

- étant des récepteurs radio à commande numérique présentant toutes les **caractéristiques** suivantes:
  Being digitally controlled radio receivers having all of the **following**:
  ([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 2619392)

## having

Used about 530 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 530).

- Circuits électriques de voitures automobiles présentant les **caractéristiques** de jeux de compétition
  Electric car racing sets, **having** the character of competitive games
  ([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 5284194)

## More sentences

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

- La tâche de voir les lignes de jeu est plus facile et les erreurs sont moins probables si vous êtes attentif aux **caractéristiques** des pièces.
  The task of seeing lines of play is easier, and errors are less likely if you are aware of the resources of the pieces.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10328871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10328871) [\#10328895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10328895))

- La scène du crime avait les **caractéristiques** d'une exécution professionnelle.
  The crime scene had the earmarks of a professional execution.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#4009154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4009154) [\#4009180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4009180))

- Monsieur le Président, le présent rapport exprime, à l'instar des rapports précédents, certaines **caractéristiques** techniques que nous approuvons.
  Mr President, this report, like the earlier reports, expresses some technicalities that one can endorse.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1779952)

## Grammar

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