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# commun — French to English

How French *commun* 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: commun (149 926), commune (132 361), communes (58 434), communs (45 790). By style: everyday 222 · literary 11 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 43 961 · legal and administrative 81 305 · UN documents 260 992.

## common

Used about 171 017 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 142 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 30 910 · legal and administrative ≈ 46 158 · UN documents ≈ 93 794). Meaning: [common in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/common/).

- C'est une erreur **commune**.
  It's a **common** mistake.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#20876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20876) [\#580469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/580469))

- Il ajouta:--Rien n'est plus **commun** que ces originaux-là.
  He added:—“Nothing is more **common** than those originals.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31021)

- Tous ceux qui croyaient étaient dans le même lieu, et ils avaient tout en **commun**.
  All who believed were together, and had all things in **common**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 2:44)

- Il y a de nombreux thèmes **communs**.
  There are many **common** topics.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1331433)

- OBJECTIFS D'INTÉRÊT **COMMUN**
  OBJECTIVES OF **COMMON** INTEREST
  ([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 3484912)

## joint

Used about 115 352 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 8 243 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 587 · UN documents ≈ 96 513). Meaning: [joint in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/joint/).

- Il s'agissait d'une décision **commune**.
  It was a **joint** decision.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9410266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9410266) [\#11913484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11913484))

- La discussion **commune** est close.
  The **joint** debate is closed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 101174)

- Entreprise **commune** Clean Sky (CSJU)
  Clean Sky **Joint** Undertaking (CSJU)
  ([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 4765151)

- Textes adoptés par la Réunion **commune**
  Texts adopted by the **Joint** Meeting
  ([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 14415788)

- L'Iran et la Russie vont établir une banque **commune**.
  Iran and Russia will establish a **joint** bank.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3556552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3556552) [\#6802937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6802937))

## More sentences

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

- Il n'y a pas de transport en **commun** par ici.
  There is no public transportation around here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4502674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4502674) [\#6560535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6560535))

- Les sages s'entretiennent des idées, les intellectuels des faits, et le **commun** des mortels, de ce qu'ils mangent.
  Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and gracehero · checked, community translation · [\#556768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/556768) [\#570263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/570263))

- C'était une femme hors du **commun**.
  She was an extraordinary woman.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3783120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3783120) [\#4617933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4617933))

## 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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