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# critique — French to English

How French *critique* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: critique (27 352), critiques (27 580). By style: everyday 146 · literary 5 · parliamentary 8 533 · legal and administrative 3 659 · UN documents 42 589.

## critical

Used about 41 783 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 95 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 7 022 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 164 · UN documents ≈ 31 498). Forms: critical, criticism, criticisms. Meaning: [critical in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/critical/).

- Ne sois pas si **critique** !
  Do not be so **critical**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#51052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51052) [\#4854088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4854088))

- L'instant était **critique**.
  The moment was **critical**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24596)

- Le rapport est explicitement **critique**.
  The report is clearly **critical**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1222327)

- assure des fonctions **critiques**; ou
  provides **critical** functions; or
  ([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 4708048)

- La situation humanitaire était **critique**.
  The humanitarian situation was **critical**.
  ([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 2171494)

## More sentences

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

- Il **critique** constamment les autres.
  He constantly criticizes others.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by glossboss and glossboss · checked, community translation · [\#13021732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13021732) [\#13021733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13021733))

- Personne ne **critique** mon pays.
  Nobody criticizes my country.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1796889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1796889) [\#7074159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7074159))

- Au moment **critique**, le seul sur qui vous pouvez compter, c'est vous.
  When the chips are down, the only one you can count on is yourself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#710920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/710920) [\#803596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803596))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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