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# ethnique — French to English

How French *ethnique* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: ethnique (44 797), ethniques (47 045). By style: everyday 12 · parliamentary 2 719 · legal and administrative 493 · UN documents 88 618.

## ethnic

Used about 86 990 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 2 492 · legal and administrative ≈ 483 · UN documents ≈ 84 002). Forms: ethnic, ethnicity. Meaning: [ethnic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ethnic/).

- Quelle est la composition **ethnique** du Mali ?
  What's Mali's **ethnic** makeup?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10134216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10134216) [\#12493432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493432))

- Srebrenica symbolise l'épuration **ethnique**.
  Srebrenica is a symbol of **ethnic** cleansing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1200853)

- Membre du groupe **ethnique** Tadjik.
  Belongs to Tajik **ethnic** group.
  ([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 4280059)

- L &apos; influence des minorités **ethniques**
  Influence of **ethnic** minorities
  ([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 6098411)

- Les Kurdes sont un groupe **ethnique** sans État officiel.
  Kurds are an **ethnic** group with no official state.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13788694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13788694) [\#13788697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13788697))

## minorities

Used about 2 769 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 769). Forms: minorities, minority.

- 45. Comme le relève M. Yutzis, le rapport souligne le problème du recrutement de personnes d &apos; origine **ethnique** minoritaire dans l &apos; administration pénitentiaire (paragraphe 172).
  As noted by Mr. Yutzis, the report underscored the problem of recruiting **minorities** in the correctional services (para. 172).
  ([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 15195167)

- L &apos; ethnie slovaque est majoritaire, mais les minorités hongroise et tzigane sont relativement nombreuses, et il existe d &apos; autres groupes **ethniques** moins nombreux.
  In addition to a majority of Slovak nationals, there are relatively strong Hungarian and Romany **minorities**, along with about 10 less populous nationalities.
  ([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 2737249)

- Plusieurs municipalités ont accompli des progrès importants dans la mise en œuvre de projets de développement destinés aux rapatriés, notamment dans des villages accueillant des minorités ou plusieurs groupes **ethniques**.
  45. Several municipalities made significant progress in implementing development projects for returnees, especially in **minority** and ethnically mixed villages.
  ([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 25070189)

## groups

Used about 28 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 28).

- Les guerres civiles opposent différents groupes **ethniques**, ce qui, en pratique, signifie populations civiles.
  Civil wars are waged between different ethic **groups**, which in practice means civilian populations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 556221)

## More sentences

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

- En effet, le texte initial en français de la Commission indique "sans distinction de race ou d' origine **ethnique**".
  In the French version the Commission' s initial text uses the phrase 'sans distinction de race ou d' origine ethnique' .
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 57104)

- Dans une Europe à la diversité culturelle et **ethnique**, il importe d’autant plus que nous créions des ponts entre nous.
  In a culturally and ethnically diverse Europe it is all the more important for us to establish bridges between us.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 647017)

- Les tendances nationalistes sont présentes dans toutes les couches de la population et aucune mesure n'est prise pour réduire le ressentiment **ethnique** traditionnel.
  Nationalist tendencies are evident in all sections of the population and there are no measures to oppose the traditional hostilities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1676216)

## 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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