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# essentiels — French to English

How French *essentiels* 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: essentiels (51 209). By style: everyday 5 · parliamentary 3 799 · legal and administrative 5 745 · UN documents 41 660.

## essential

Used about 19 855 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 029 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 069 · UN documents ≈ 14 755). Meaning: [essential in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/essential/).

- Les 7 outils **essentiels** pour apprendre une langue.
  The 7 **essential** tools for learning a language.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8222033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8222033) [\#8222292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8222292))

- L'éducation et la formation sont naturellement des éléments **essentiels** qui rapprochent les pays.
  Education and training are obviously **essential** for bringing countries closer together.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1878283)

- 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)

- Besoins élémentaires et services **essentiels** / Amélioration de l &apos; état de santé de la population
  Basic Needs and **Essential** Services / Health Status of population improved
  ([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 23798659)

- Les fruits et les légumes sont **essentiels** à une alimentation équilibrée.
  Fruits and vegetables are **essential** to a balanced diet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zmoo and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#2187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2187) [\#4016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4016))

## key

Used about 10 586 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 950 · legal and administrative ≈ 958 · UN documents ≈ 8 679). Meaning: [key in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/key/).

- 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)

- aspects **essentiels** de la recherche sur le déclassement des installations nucléaires;
  and **key** aspects of research on decommissioning of nuclear installations;
  ([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 3079207)

## basic

Used about 6 155 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79 · UN documents ≈ 6 075). Meaning: [basic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/basic/).

- En termes économiques, l’Europe est confrontée à deux problèmes **essentiels**.
  In economic terms, Europe is confronted with two **basic** problems.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 626211)

- Garantie de l &apos; accessibilité et de la qualité des services **essentiels** et des biens publics
  Ensuring access to and the quality of **basic** services and public goods
  ([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 29579693)

- Le rétablissement et le renforcement de la qualité des services sociaux **essentiels** que sont la santé et l &apos; éducation;
  Restoring and improving the quality of **basic** social services of health care and education
  ([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 22478732)

- 9. Mme JIMENEZ BUTRAGUEÑO regrette qu &apos; aucune statistique n &apos; ait été communiquée sur le logement et la fourniture de services **essentiels**.
  9. Mrs. JIMENEZ BUTRAGUEÑO regretted that no statistics had been provided for housing and the provision of **basic** services.
  ([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 3937479)

- Les maigres infrastructures sociales du pays sont mises à rude épreuve et ne peuvent plus répondre aux besoins **essentiels** de la population.
  The country &apos; s sparse social infrastructure was being sorely tried and could no longer meet the population &apos; s **basic** needs.
  ([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 2593771)

## elements

Used about 1 266 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 158 · legal and administrative ≈ 239 · UN documents ≈ 868). 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)

- La Commission considère que ces éléments de flexibilité seront **essentiels** pour parvenir à un accord entre les trois institutions.
  The Commission considers that these **elements** of flexibility will be crucial in reaching an agreement between the three institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 764010)

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Ne gaspille pas d'argent pour des produits non **essentiels**.
  Don't waste money on nonessentials.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4900662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4900662) [\#11041949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11041949))

- Je n'ai pas compris les points **essentiels** de son discours.
  I couldn't get the point of his speech.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#260788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/260788) [\#14367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14367))

- Quoi que vous désiriez dans la vie, les objectifs, l'ambition et les activités des autres constituent des obstacles **essentiels** le long de votre chemin.
  No matter what you desire of life, other people's aims, ambitions and activities constitute vital obstructions along your pathway.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and weihaiping · checked, community translation · [\#1482482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1482482) [\#1482888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1482888))

## 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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