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Meaning: [essential in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/essential/). - Le sel est **essentiel** à la vie. Salt is **essential** to life. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#9867657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9867657) [\#9867660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9867660)) - L'**essentiel**, vous le savez. You know the **essential** points. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30339) - Parvenir à un accord avant avril prochain est **essentiel**. Reaching agreement by next April is **essential**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1142322) - autres renseignements **essentiels** pour l’exploitation; other **essential** operational information; ([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 2686368) - Le zinc est un élément **essentiel** pour les humains, les animaux et les sols. Zinc is an **essential** element for humans, animals and soil. ([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 12856490) ## key Used about 23 750 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 044 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 044 · UN documents ≈ 19 661). Meaning: [key in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/key/). - Le dépistage est **essentiel**. Early detection is the **key**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5738408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5738408) [\#11947781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11947781)) - Se regroupent ici trois points qui sont **essentiels** pour moi et pour mon groupe. Together with my group, I identify three **key** points in this context. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 216464) - assimiler rapidement les informations et en extraire les éléments **essentiels**; assimilate information quickly and extract **key** points, ([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 917151) - Trois facteurs **essentiels** ressortent de cette analyse. Three **key** factors are highlighted. ([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 14655340) - Je suis d'accord avec Mme Oddy sur deux des points **essentiels** qu'elle a soulevés aujourd'hui. I agree with Ms Oddy on two of the **key** areas she raised today. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998070) ## crucial Used about 7 065 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 522 · legal and administrative ≈ 626 · UN documents ≈ 4 915). Meaning: [crucial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/crucial/). - Le sel est **essentiel** à la cuisine. Salt is **crucial** for cooking. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7030189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7030189) [\#8450272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8450272)) - La recommandation porte sur deux aspects **essentiels**. The recommendation relates to two **crucial** points. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 139448) - Cet élément est **essentiel** parce que la capacité financière du débiteur détermine son risque de crédit spécifique et, partant, le taux d’intérêt. This is **crucial** because the financial standing of the debtor determines its debtor-specific credit risk and, in turn, the interest rate. ([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 5118157) - À cette fin, il est **essentiel** que les États parties présentent leurs rapports régulièrement et dans les délais voulus. In this regard, regular and timely reporting by States parties is **crucial**. ([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 11939513) - Enfin, nous sommes arrivés à un accord: c'est là l'**essentiel**. We have finally reached an agreement: that is the **crucial** point. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 893620) ## elements Used about 2 857 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 190 · legal and administrative ≈ 209 · UN documents ≈ 2 458). Meaning: [elements in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/elements/). - Nous prions le gouvernement togolais d'examiner soigneusement ce rapport et de prendre en considération les éléments **essentiels** qui y sont développés. We should ask the Togo Government to study this report very carefully and to implement its main **elements**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1780447) - un résumé des éléments **essentiels** du plan et un résumé de la capacité de redressement globale; a summary of the key **elements** of the plan and a summary of overall recovery capacity; ([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 5356528) - Le nouveau régime juridique doit tenir compte de plusieurs autres éléments **essentiels**. The new legal regime needs to comply with a number of other defining **elements**. ([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 29240561) - les éléments **essentiels** qui prouvent le caractère traditionnel du produit, comme spécifié à l’article 4, paragraphe 1, premier alinéa; the key **elements** that prove the product's traditional character as laid down in the first subparagraph of Article 4(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 965658) - Tirés, pour l ' **essentiel**, des débats du Groupe de travail spécial, ces éléments devraient être adaptés au cas particulier de chaque pays. Drawn essentially from the discussions of the Ad Hoc Working Group, these **elements** would need to be adapted to the specificity of each country ' s situation. ([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 1338757) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Ils se disputent beaucoup, mais pour l'**essentiel**, ils s'entendent assez bien. They argue a lot, but for the most part they get along quite well together. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#240588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240588) [\#575192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/575192)) - C'est l'**essentiel**. That's the main thing. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and raggione · checked, community translation · [\#2686431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2686431) [\#12936618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12936618)) - La santé est un facteur **essentiel** du bonheur. Health is an important factor of happiness. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#238989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238989) [\#523637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/523637)) ## 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 Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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