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# certaines — French to English

How French *certaines* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: certaines (254 388). By style: everyday 302 · literary 16 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 17 777 · legal and administrative 41 803 · UN documents 194 485.

## some

Used about 114 549 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 252 · parliamentary ≈ 7 777 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 225 · UN documents ≈ 101 294). 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))

- 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)

- Dans **certaines** zones portuaires, le respect de **certaines** normes de qualité de l’air peut être compromise par les émissions des navires.
  In **some** port areas, the attainment of air quality standards may be jeopardised by ship emissions.
  ([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 880710)

- Malheureusement, **certaines** tendances indiquent qu &apos; une telle possibilité existe.
  Unfortunately, **some** trends in outer space indicate that such a possibility exists.
  ([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 13219798)

- Je connais **certaines** de ces filles.
  I know **some** of these girls.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1750215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1750215) [\#1763070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1763070))

## certain

Used about 72 619 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 740 · UN documents ≈ 40 518). Meaning: [certain in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/certain/).

- Pour **certaines** tâches, mon ordinateur peut être bien utile.
  For **certain** tasks, my computer can be very useful.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and dracae · checked, community translation · [\#1497948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1497948) [\#1203385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1203385))

- Casser le fil semble être l'instinct de **certaines** familles misérables.
  It seems to be the instinct of **certain** wretched families to break the thread.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12915)

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Sami doit éclaircir **certaines** choses pour moi.
  Sami has to clear up a few things for me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6385966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6385966) [\#6386058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6386058))

- Je n'arrive pas à comprendre les raisons qui poussent **certaines** personnes à parasiter les forums.
  I just don't understand what goes through the minds of people who troll forums.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and fcbond · checked, community translation · [\#328682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328682) [\#967668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967668))

- Il me semblait clair que le plan nécessitait **certaines** révisions.
  It seemed obvious to me that the plan needed a few revisions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#48553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/48553) [\#7110286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7110286))

## 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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