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# certain — French to English

How French *certain* 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: certain (155 506), certaine (32 252), certaines (254 388), certains (364 829). By style: everyday 1 333 · literary 97 · biblical 40 · parliamentary 73 184 · legal and administrative 103 644 · UN documents 628 677.

## some

Used about 281 716 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 632 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 24 776 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 274 · UN documents ≈ 239 028). Meaning: [some in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/some/).

- **Certains** d'entre nous le détestent.
  **Some** of us hate it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4949943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4949943) [\#5311663](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5311663))

- Elle se souleva, s'assit, le regarda, et avec un de ces efforts de courage qu'il faut, en **certains** cas, pour se tuer, elle lui dit:
  She raised herself, she sat up, looked in his face, and with an effort of courage such as it must cost in **some** cases to kill one’s self, she said:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1839)

- Les péchés de **certains** hommes sont manifestes, même avant qu’on les juge, tandis que chez d’autres, ils ne se découvrent que dans la suite.
  **Some** men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:24)

- Cependant, un **certain** nombre d’interrogations demeurent.
  Nonetheless, there remain **some** questions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795102)

- Peu ou pas d’autonomie sur l’ordre et une **certaine** autonomie sur le contenu
  Little or no autonomy on order and **some** autonomy on content
  ([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 5293043)

## certain

Used about 189 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 153 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 14 484 · legal and administrative ≈ 53 981 · UN documents ≈ 121 151). Meaning: [certain in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/certain/).

- Je n'en suis pas **certaine**.
  I'm not **certain**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2248129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2248129) [\#4841737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4841737))

- Il sentit un **certain** froid.
  He had a **certain** sensation of cold.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12124)

- Il dit encore cette parabole, en vue de **certaines** personnes se persuadant qu’elles étaient justes, et ne faisant aucun cas des autres:
  He also spoke this parable to **certain** people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:9)

- Cela implique également un **certain** niveau de protection environnementale.
  It also implies a **certain** level of environmental protection.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 564596)

- abrogeant **certains** actes obsolètes du Conseil
  repealing **certain** obsolete Council acts
  ([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 1941498)

## number

Used about 128 941 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 9 529 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 336 · UN documents ≈ 108 054). Meaning: [number in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/number/).

- Je l'ai fait un **certain** nombre de fois.
  I've done that a **number** of times.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5230894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5230894) [\#11329186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11329186))

- Il en avait déjà ainsi posé un **certain** nombre depuis une heure environ qu'il était dans le jardin.
  During the hour or thereabouts that he had been in the garden he had already spread out a **number** of them.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10079)

- Je comprends le mécontentement de **certains** intervenants.
  I do understand the dissatisfaction of a **number** of speakers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1091612)

- L’évaluation se caractérise par le respect d’un **certain** nombre de principes:
  Assessing shall be characterised by reliance on a **number** of principles:
  ([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 2108337)

- Mme Sulimani donne lecture d &apos; un **certain** nombre de révisions orales du texte.
  3. She read out a **number** of oral revisions to the text.
  ([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 23818675)

## there

Used about 26 311 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 287 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 080 · UN documents ≈ 22 921). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Je suis **certain** qu'on va y trouver quelque chose.
  I'm sure we'll find something **there**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2539709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2539709) [\#12546637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12546637))

- --Cependant, j'ai cru remarquer une **certaine** animation dans les rues.
  “But I thought **there** was a great deal of disturbance in the streets.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2135)

- Mais au bout d’un **certain** temps le torrent fut à sec, car il n’était point tombé de pluie dans le pays.
  After a while, the brook dried up, because **there** was no rain in the land.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 17:7)

- **Certaines** forces risquent d'intervenir et de diviser l'opinion de l'UE.
  **There** are forces that may intervene in such a way as to cause division in the EU's view.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 456270)

- S'il est prévu, à une **certaine** date, une option d'achat associée à une majoration de la rémunération, cette date est considérée comme l'échéance de la protection.
  If at a given moment **there** is a call option in combination with a step-up, such moment is treated as the maturity of the protection.
  ([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 2951010)

## More sentences

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

- Es-tu **certain** que Tom a dit la vérité ?
  Are you sure Tom told the truth?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by filbert and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9465894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9465894) [\#10791477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10791477))

- Je ne suis pas **certain** que je veuille faire ça maintenant.
  I'm not sure I want to do this now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2016925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2016925) [\#2019689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2019689))

- Un **certain** monsieur Jones est venu vous voir.
  A Mr Jones has come to see you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#52904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52904) [\#1949716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1949716))

## 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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