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# certaine — French to English

How French *certaine* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: certaine (32 252), certaines (254 388). By style: everyday 519 · literary 43 · biblical 21 · parliamentary 24 111 · legal and administrative 44 766 · UN documents 217 180.

## some

Used about 114 295 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 260 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 9 293 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 461 · UN documents ≈ 97 279). Meaning: [some in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/some/).

- **Certaines** boules sont jaunes.
  **Some** of the balls are yellow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2771410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2771410) [\#8418294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8418294))

- Parvenu à une **certaine** distance du banc, bien avant d'être à la fin de l'allée, il s'arrêta, et il ne put savoir lui-même comment il se fit qu'il rebroussa chemin.
  On arriving at **some** little distance from the bench, and long before he had reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself why he retraced his steps.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15299)

- Ils partirent de Béthel; et il y avait encore une **certaine** distance jusqu’à Éphrata, lorsque Rachel accoucha. Elle eut un accouchement pénible;
  They traveled from Bethel. There was still **some** distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 35:16)

- Mais **certaines** personnes ici présentes ne veulent même pas en parler.
  But **some** people here do not even want to mention that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 395338)

- 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 77 301 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 4 521 · legal and administrative ≈ 25 181 · UN documents ≈ 47 508). 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))

- La mère, regardée d'une **certaine** façon, se tut.
  The mother, being eyed after a **certain** fashion, held her tongue.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16319)

- 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)

- Il remporte un certain succès dans **certaines** parties de l'ex-Yougoslavie.
  He has certainly been successful in **certain** parts of former Yugoslavia.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2017796)

- Objet: abandon de **certaines** mentions sur le document de transport (n2).
  Subject: Waiving of **certain** indications in the transport document (n2).
  ([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 1448844)

## extent

Used about 2 980 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 466 · UN documents ≈ 2 262). Meaning: [extent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/extent/).

- Dans une **certaine** mesure, je me distancie de M. Krarup, car je pense que c'est une question qu'aucun pays ne peut traiter individuellement.
  I disagree, to an **extent**, with Mr Krarup, in that this is an issue that no one country can address on its own.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 407318)

- une zone, ou **certaines** parties de cette zone, délimitée par l’extension latérale des surfaces de limitation d’obstacles de l’aérodrome;
  an area, or parts thereof, bounded by the lateral **extent** of the aerodrome obstacle limitation surfaces;
  ([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 5179311)

- Néanmoins, il est entendu qu &apos; il existe une **certaine** marge d &apos; applicabilité des droits, qui est fonction de l &apos; étendue des effets de la catastrophe.
  Nonetheless, it is understood that there is an implied degree of latitude in the applicability of rights, conditioned by the **extent** of the impact of the disaster.
  ([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 21631480)

## More sentences

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

- Êtes-vous absolument **certaine** de cela ?
  Are you absolutely sure of that?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3408935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3408935) [\#6637421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6637421))

- Je suis **certaine** que vous êtes occupé.
  I'm sure you're busy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2046706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2046706) [\#8403292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8403292))

- Comment pouvez-vous être **certaine** que c’est ce qui va se produire ?
  How can you be sure that's going to happen?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10555683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10555683) [\#10555694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10555694))

## Grammar

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