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# civil — French to English

How French *civil* 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: civil (76 222), civile (211 899), civiles (35 518), civils (117 527). By style: everyday 44 · literary 8 · parliamentary 12 454 · legal and administrative 20 514 · UN documents 408 146.

## civil

Used about 404 503 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 11 546 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 531 · UN documents ≈ 378 385). Forms: civil, civilian, civilians. Meaning: [civil in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/civil/).

- Des **civils** ont été tués.
  Some **civilians** were killed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#804374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804374) [\#4237041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4237041))

- Marius, en sortant de la guerre **civile**, s'apprête à la guerre domestique
  CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM **CIVIL** WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28841)

- Ce pays n'a pas de service **civil**.
  They do not have a **civil** service.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1569035)

- Droits **civils** et politiques
  **Civil** and political rights
  ([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 1356713)

- DROITS **CIVILS** ET POLITIQUES
  **CIVIL** AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
  ([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 12202792)

## calendar

Used about 8 206 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 953 · UN documents ≈ 4 252). Meaning: [calendar in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/calendar/).

- À l'échelle mondiale, la période de douze mois allant de novembre 2018 à octobre 2019 a été de 0,56°C plus chaude que la moyenne de 1981-2010. La période de douze mois la plus chaude a été celle d'octobre 2015 à septembre 2016, avec une température de 0,66 °C supérieure à la moyenne. 2016 est l'année **civile** la plus chaude jamais enregistrée, avec une température globale de 0,63°C supérieure à celle de la période 1981-2010.
  Globally, the twelve-month period from November 2018 to October 2019 was 0.56°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average. The warmest twelve-month period was from October 2015 to September 2016, with a temperature 0.66°C above average. 2016 is the warmest **calendar** year on record, with a global temperature 0.63°C above that for 1981-2010.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and GuidoW · checked, community translation · [\#8306384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8306384) [\#9776198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9776198))

- au plus tard six mois **civils** après la demande:
  within maximum six **calendar** months from application:
  ([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 1823534)

- c) L &apos; exercice est un exercice biennal qui comprend deux années **civiles** consécutives;
  (c) The financial period of the Centre is a biennium and consists of two consecutive **calendar** years.
  ([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 2476428)

- Période contingentaire (année **civile**) 2020: 4300000 kg, répartis comme suit:
  TRQ period (**calendar** year) 2020: 4300000 kg, divided as follows:
  ([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 5212375)

- c) L &apos; exercice de l &apos; UNU est un exercice biennal qui comprend deux années **civiles** consécutives;
  (c) The financial period of the United Nations University is a biennium and consists of two consecutive **calendar** years.
  ([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 8691933)

## political

Used about 4 252 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 252). Meaning: [political in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/political/).

- **civils**, politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels,
  **political**, economic, social and cultural rights,
  ([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 25772078)

## military

Used about 344 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 130 · legal and administrative ≈ 214). Meaning: [military in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/military/).

- Un avion **civil** aurait soi-disant violé l'espace militaire aérien.
  A commercial airplane allegedly violated **military** airspace.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#322684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/322684) [\#136355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136355))

- Nous étions tous très fiers des résultats puisque le grand succès a été que les militaires cèdent, au bout de 24 ans, le pouvoir aux **civils**.
  We were very proud of the results, because the great success was that after 24 years the **military** was handing over power to the people.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1129130)

- La personne effectuait un service militaire ou **civil** obligatoire
  Was a conscript on compulsory **military** or community service
  ([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 656714)

- Je pense qu'on peut aussi étendre cela à quelques autres pays pauvres et cela entre dans le cadre du domaine **civil** d'une politique extérieure de l'Union européenne.
  I believe we could also expand it to include a few other poorer countries, and that this forms part of the non-**military** sector of a European Union foreign policy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1688061)

- La personne a déjà travaillé (les travaux purement occasionnels tels que les travaux de vacances, le service militaire ou **civil** obligatoire ne sont pas considérés comme un emploi)
  Person has already been in employment (purely occasional work, such as vacation work, compulsory **military** or community service are not to be considered as employment)
  ([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 656888)

## More sentences

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

- Il s'est fait attraper par un policier en **civil**.
  He was caught by an undercover police officer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1848869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1848869) [\#12010204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12010204))

- Quel est votre état **civil** ?
  What's your marital status?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4999143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4999143) [\#8267367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8267367))

- Je suis un flic en **civil**.
  I'm an undercover cop.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3726153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3726153) [\#8994715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8994715))

## Grammar

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