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# commercial — French to English

How French *commercial* 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: commercial (49 783), commerciale (36 871), commerciales (74 853), commercials (4), commerciaux (45 745). By style: everyday 96 · literary 1 · parliamentary 13 343 · legal and administrative 34 755 · UN documents 159 061.

## trade

Used about 90 980 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 7 714 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 383 · UN documents ≈ 75 860). Forms: trade, trading. Meaning: [trade in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/trade/).

- Quel est le surplus **commercial** de l'Algérie ?
  What's Algeria's **trade** surplus?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10096360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10096360) [\#11837186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837186))

- Nous avons raison de viser un accord **commercial** ambitieux.
  We are right to go for an ambitious **trade** agreement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1373487)

- Crédits **commerciaux** et avances
  **Trade** credits and advances
  ([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 359492)

- pour le droit **commercial** international
  on International **Trade** Law
  ([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 18391885)

- Quelle est le déficit **commercial** de l'Algérie ?
  What's Algeria's **trade** deficit?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10103054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10103054) [\#11837189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837189))

## commercial

Used about 83 428 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 170 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 150 · UN documents ≈ 57 099). Meaning: [commercial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/commercial/).

- Ce fut un succès critique et **commercial**.
  It was a critical and a **commercial** success.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2707382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2707382) [\#12461346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12461346))

- Le faubourg Saint-Antoine avait encore d'autres causes de tressaillement; car il reçoit le contre-coup des crises **commerciales**, des faillites, des grèves, des chômages, inhérents aux grands ébranlements politiques.
  The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it received the counter-shock of **commercial** crises, of failures, strikes, slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18537)

- Nous avons aussi prévu des mesures incitatives **commerciales**.
  We have also provided for **commercial** incentives.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1282883)

- Nom du type **commercial** \[1\]
  Name of the **commercial** type \[1\]
  ([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 1001724)

- Obligations de banques **commerciales**
  Obligations of **commercial** banks
  ([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 27214451)

## business

Used about 13 421 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 441 · UN documents ≈ 11 420). Meaning: [business in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/business/).

- Le contrat **commercial** s'est arrêté le mois dernier.
  The **business** contract ran out last month.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#265888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265888) [\#1421778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1421778))

- Une bonne idée **commerciale** était bloquée pour des raisons non **commerciales**.
  A good **business** idea was being stymied for non-business reasons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1752761)

- Cette configuration **commerciale** entraîne un risque de contournement sous la forme d'une compensation croisée du PMI.
  This **business** model leads to a risk of circumvention in the form of cross-compensation of the MIP.
  ([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 3722715)

- Ministère des affaires économiques et **commerciales**
  Danish Ministry of Economic and **Business** Affairs
  ([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 18725458)

- Son activité **commerciale** à New York fut un grand succès.
  His **business** in New York was a great success.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#35935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35935) [\#1573097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1573097))

## More sentences

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

- Ce **commercial** se comporte comme un rapace.
  This sales guy acts like a vulture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jean\_Burin and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11883662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11883662) [\#5419902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5419902))

- Tom adore aller au centre-**commercial**.
  Tom loves going to the mall.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adrien\_FR and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3475846](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3475846) [\#11612491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11612491))

- Sami quitta le centre **commercial** à six heures.
  Sami left the mall at six.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#7279918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7279918) [\#7280673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7280673))

## 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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