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# essentiellement — French to English

How French *essentiellement* 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: essentiellement (65 704). By style: everyday 11 · literary 1 · parliamentary 3 481 · legal and administrative 4 135 · UN documents 58 076.

## mainly

Used about 16 411 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 943 · legal and administrative ≈ 948 · UN documents ≈ 14 519). Meaning: [mainly in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mainly/).

- L'auditoire se composait **essentiellement** d'étudiants.
  The audience consisted **mainly** of students.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#277937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277937) [\#895533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/895533))

- Ils concernent **essentiellement** les villes.
  They are **mainly** in the cities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 949872)

- Cet attribut concerne **essentiellement** les bâtiments dans lesquels sont exercées des activités humaines.
  This attribute addresses **mainly** the buildings hosting human activities.
  ([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 3049828)

- Les droits de douane restent importants pour certains produits, **essentiellement** les panneaux dérivés du bois.
  Tariffs will be significant **mainly** on wood-based panels.
  ([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 2930016)

- Le public était **essentiellement** composé d'étudiants.
  The audience consisted **mainly** of students.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#277937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277937) [\#895535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/895535))

## essentially

Used about 13 779 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 725 · legal and administrative ≈ 948 · UN documents ≈ 12 099). Meaning: [essentially in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/essentially/).

- Sa proposition était **essentiellement** un ordre.
  His proposal was **essentially** an order.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and tsp\_2 · checked, community translation · [\#10125202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10125202) [\#848261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/848261))

- La philosophie sociale est **essentiellement** la science de la paix.
  Social philosophy consists **essentially** in science and peace.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21681)

- Ce rapport est **essentiellement** un remaniement de vieilles mesures, c'est la raison pour laquelle je me suis abstenu de voter.
  The report is **essentially** a rehash of old measures, which is why I abstained from voting.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1399836)

- Par «solvant organique», on entend **essentiellement** un mélange de produits chimiques organiques et d’eau.
  It is understood that an ‘organic solvent’ means **essentially** a mixture of organic chemicals and water.
  ([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 1462019)

- C &apos; est **essentiellement** une action humanitaire.
  It is **essentially** a humanitarian action.
  ([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 5854891)

## primarily

Used about 9 780 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 363 · legal and administrative ≈ 948 · UN documents ≈ 8 469). Meaning: [primarily in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/primarily/).

- La viticulture, qui repose **essentiellement** sur des ressources naturelles, exerce une influence positive sur le plan de la protection du sol contre l'érosion.
  Winegrowing, which **primarily** relies on natural resources, has a positive effect in terms of protecting soil against erosion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 907898)

- Par “marchandises” on entend **essentiellement** tous biens transportables.
  “Goods” means **primarily** any movable things.
  ([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 2407643)

- La plupart des conflits aujourd &apos; hui sont menés **essentiellement** avec des armes légères et de petit calibre.
  Most present-day conflicts are fought **primarily** with small arms and light weapons.
  ([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 19503200)

- L'Union européenne doit prendre des mesures réelles afin d'adopter une position ferme, **essentiellement** en construisant des voies alternatives de transport de l'énergie.
  The European Union must take real steps in order to make a firm stand, **primarily** through building alternative energy transport routes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1138021)

- La recherche doit s’effectuer **essentiellement** à l’endroit des joints.
  Hydrogen leak detection is performed **primarily** at joints.
  ([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 5406170)

## mostly

Used about 1 643 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 431 · UN documents ≈ 1 210). Meaning: [mostly in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mostly/).

- Le travail consiste **essentiellement** à débroussailler et évacuer les détritus.
  The work **mostly** consists of removing undergrowth and clearing away litter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and danieljtah · checked, community translation · [\#3545867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3545867) [\#3545875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3545875))

- L’appréciation suivante fait **essentiellement** référence à UPC, étant donné que les documents soumis par cette entreprise sont les plus précis.
  In the following assessment, reference will be made **mostly** to UPC, as their submissions are the most detailed.
  ([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 1399469)

- Un contrôle strict sera mis en œuvre grâce à un encadrement permanent par les personnels adaptés (**essentiellement** des éducateurs).
  Strict control will be assured by round-the-clock supervision by trained staff (**mostly** youth workers).
  ([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 10502212)

- Les premiers siècles d'exploration spatiale supralumineuse révélèrent que l'espace voisin était **essentiellement** désert, étant donné que la vie découverte se trouvait dans un état premier.
  The first centuries of superluminal space exploration proved that neighbouring space was **mostly** desert as other life discovered was in a primordial state.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#1591774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1591774) [\#1594172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594172))

- La Commission a constaté qu'à la fois l'industrie de l'Union et les exportateurs chinois vendaient **essentiellement** leurs produits par l'intermédiaire de négociants.
  The Commission noted that both the Union industry and the Chinese exporters **mostly** sell through traders.
  ([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 4321788)

## More sentences

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

- Les permaliens sont **essentiellement** des liens vers des choses comme les messages, les commentaires, etc.
  Permalinks are basically links to items like posts, comments, etc.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by User4611 and User4611 · checked, community translation · [\#753391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/753391) [\#753392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/753392))

- L'obésité devient endémique, et c'est notre mode de vie **essentiellement** sédentaire qui en est en grande partie responsable.
  Obesity is becoming endemic, and our largely sedentary lifestyle is in no small part to blame for this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1075325)

- Cela permet **essentiellement** la mise en œuvre arbitraire du règlement, fondée sur les exigences des entreprises.
  In essence, it allows the discretional implementation of the regulation depending on corporate requirements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889550)

## Grammar

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