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# facteur — French to English

How French *facteur* 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: facteur (35 267), facteurs (82 752). By style: everyday 53 · parliamentary 5 515 · legal and administrative 17 928 · UN documents 94 523.

## factor

Used about 91 902 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 4 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 874 · UN documents ≈ 71 877). Forms: factor, factors. Meaning: [factor in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/factor/).

- Il existe de nombreux **facteurs**.
  There are many **factors**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by toutflou and saeb · checked, community translation · [\#370590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/370590) [\#486545](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486545))

- Le **facteur** temps est fondamental.
  The time **factor** is crucial.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 285120)

- **FACTEUR** DE RECALAGE (SΛ)
  λ-SHIFT **FACTOR** (Sλ)
  ([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 5440115)

- Détermination du **facteur** R
  Determining the R-**Factor**
  ([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 28145568)

- De nombreux **facteurs** entrent en jeu.
  Numerous **factors** come in to play.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and furoraceltica · checked, community translation · [\#3651692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3651692) [\#3651661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3651661))

## important

Used about 3 011 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 2 954). Meaning: [important in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/important/).

- Cet organe important sera élevé au rang d'institution et, dans le domaine politique, il est un **facteur** dirigeant.
  This **important** body will be raised to the rank of institution and, in the political sphere, it is a leading force.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1269637)

- L &apos; égalité de la rémunération des femmes et des hommes est un **facteur** important dans l &apos; égalisation des droits et des chances.
  Parity of salaries is **important** to the realization of equal rights and the creation of equal opportunities for men and women.
  ([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 10388896)

- 25. Un **facteur** important de la promotion des bonnes pratiques au niveau national est la volonté politique affirmée de faire valoir les droits autochtones, comme le veut la Déclaration.
  25. An **important** component of efforts to build good practices at the domestic level is a policy of commitment to advance the rights of indigenous peoples in accordance with the Declaration.
  ([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 20310749)

- 3. Le Comité estime qu &apos; il n &apos; existe pratiquement aucun **facteur** ni difficulté susceptible de nuire à l &apos; application effective des dispositions du Pacte par le Gouvernement islandais.
  3. The Committee finds that there are no **important** difficulties which may affect the effective implementation of the Covenant &apos; s provisions by the Government of Iceland.
  ([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 291874)

## More sentences

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

- Elle venait à peine d'entrer dans le bain, que le **facteur** frappait à la porte avec un colis.
  Hardly had she got in the bath when the postman knocked on the door with a parcel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#308005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/308005) [\#1604018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1604018))

- Le **facteur** passe par ici tous les trois jours.
  The mailman comes around every three days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#324561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324561) [\#541206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/541206))

- « Boxing Day », c'est le premier jour ouvrable après Noël, où le **facteur**, le laitier, etc, reçoivent des cadeaux.
  Boxing Day, when presents are given to the postman, the milkman, etc., is the first week-day after Christmas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#33586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/33586) [\#1604009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1604009))

## Grammar

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