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# fédéral — French to English

How French *fédéral* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: fédéral (44 156), fédérale (38 706), fédérales (7 424), fédéraux (5 142). By style: everyday 24 · parliamentary 1 930 · legal and administrative 4 078 · UN documents 89 396.

## federal

Used about 83 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 1 708 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 377 · UN documents ≈ 78 687). Meaning: [federal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/federal/).

- L'Allemagne est un État **fédéral**.
  Germany is a **federal** state.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sakura13 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1761408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1761408) [\#2714190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2714190))

- Massacre de 200 civils en République **fédérale** du Nigéria
  Massacre of 200 civilians in the **Federal** Republic of Nigeria
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 263193)

- I. Loi **fédérale** no 1 de 1979
  I. **Federal** Law No. 1 of 1979
  ([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 2118793)

- Ce sont là des tribunaux **fédéraux**.
  These are **Federal** courts.
  ([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 11839069)

- J'habite dans une république **fédérale**.
  I live in a **federal** republic.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by janTuki and Leglaine · checked, community translation · [\#13967737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13967737) [\#10842252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10842252))

## government

Used about 1 988 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 40 · legal and administrative ≈ 85 · UN documents ≈ 1 862). Meaning: [government in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/government/).

- L'influence du Conseil et du gouvernement **fédéral** allemand n'a pas été des moindres jusqu'ici pour y mettre frein.
  The Council and in particular the German **Government** have been the main stumbling blocks so far.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1646824)

- taux d'intérêt sans risque de 2,85 % (emprunts **fédéraux** allemands sur dix ans «Bund», moyenne annuelle 2011),
  Risk-free rate of 2,85 % (10 years German **Government** Bond ‘Bund’, 2011 year average),
  ([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 3883923)

- Obligations de l &apos; État **fédéral** et des agences **fédérales** (États-Unis)
  United States **Government** and agency obligations
  ([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 11507358)

- Je vais vous surprendre. Vous avez raison de critiquer le chancelier **fédéral** et il a raison de critiquer le gouvernement...
  It may come as a surprise, but you are right to criticise the German Chancellor and he is right to criticise the **government** ...
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 328591)

- En février 2008, le gouvernement **fédéral** a ordonné à la KfW de mettre à la disposition d’IKB 2,3 milliards d'EUR supplémentaires.
  In February 2008 the German **government** mandated KfW to provide an additional EUR 2,3 billion to IKB.
  ([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 1706027)

## More sentences

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

- Voilà les **fédéraux**.
  There's your feds.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14017664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14017664) [\#14017665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14017665))

- Le fait de l'avoir atteint est un succès pour la présidence allemande et plus particulièrement pour le chancelier **fédéral** allemand.
  That it came into being at all is also thanks to the German Presidency of the Council, and in particular to the German Chancellor.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1995477)

- Le chancelier **fédéral** a choisi le juste titre dans un journal financier: il faut coordonner les politiques pour l'emploi au sein de l'Union européenne.
  The German Chancellor chose his words well when he wrote recently in a trade journal that the most important thing was to coordinate employment policies in the European Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1936182)

## Grammar

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