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# généraux — French to English

How French *généraux* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 7 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: généraux (85 248). By style: everyday 14 · literary 7 · parliamentary 1 491 · legal and administrative 8 678 · UN documents 75 058.

## service

Used about 28 147 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 28 147). Meaning: [service in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/service/).

- Agents des services **généraux**
  General **Service**/Field Service
  ([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 4420133)

- Total des agents des services **généraux**
  Total General **Service** staff
  ([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 11514793)

- h) Division de la trésorerie : 1 poste d &apos; agent des services **généraux** (autres classes);
  (h) Treasury Division - 1 General **Service** (OL) post;
  ([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 102717)

- a) Cinq postes provisoires d &apos; agent des services **généraux** (G-1/G-6, pendant 12 mois).
  (a) Five General **Service** (Other level) positions (12 months).
  ([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 17967526)

- Il y a pleine délégation de pouvoir à l’égard du personnel appartenant aux services **généraux**.
  There is full delegation of authority with regard to General **Service** staff.
  ([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 5643724)

## general

Used about 22 902 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 932 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 328 · UN documents ≈ 15 637). Meaning: [general in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/general/).

- Ils étaient tous procureurs **généraux**.
  They were all attorneys **general**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13556211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13556211) [\#13556207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13556207))

- Cela entre dans les frais **généraux**!»
  “This enters into my **general** expenses.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1681)

- Il y a des points plus **généraux**.
  There are more **general** points.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1357122)

- Fonds pour risques bancaires **généraux**
  Funds for **general** banking risk
  ([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 3911962)

- c) Frais **généraux** de fonctionnement.
  (c) **General** operating expenses.
  ([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 23651485)

## principles

Used about 10 946 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 10 946).

- b) Cadre d &apos; action et principes **généraux** 1270 295
  (b) The framework of action and general **principles** 1270 319
  ([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 9120276)

- Ceci est contraire aux principes **généraux** du droit chronologique.
  This is contrary to the general **principles** of legal chronology.
  ([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 7237787)

- 6. Pour ce qui est de ces activités, il importe de tenir compte de deux principes **généraux**.
  6. With respect to such activities, two general **principles** are important.
  ([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 3053835)

- Il développe les grands principes et objectifs **généraux** tels qu &apos; énoncés par l &apos; Union européenne dans sa réponse commune, notamment :
  It elaborates on the main **principles** and general goals expressed by the European Union in its joint reply, including:
  ([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 21637444)

- En outre, le Comité déplore le fait que les principes **généraux** de la Convention ne sont pas toujours respectés dans de telles situations, ainsi que ce qui suit:
  Furthermore, the Committee is concerned that the general **principles** of the Convention are not always observed in such situations and that:
  ([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 10476613)

## posts

Used about 3 127 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 127).

- Ces deux postes seraient dans une large mesure financés par l &apos; abolition des deux postes d &apos; agents des services **généraux**.
  Establishment of the two **posts** would largely be funded by the abolition of two posts in the GS category.
  ([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 16160577)

- La nouvelle Division requerra 17 postes additionnels imputés sur le compte d &apos; appui \[1 D-2, 1 P-5, 5 P-4, 2 P-3 et 8 agents des services **généraux** (Autres classes)\].
  369. The new Division will require 17 additional support account **posts** (1 D-2, 1 P5, 5 P-4, 2 P-3 and 8 GS (OL)).
  ([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 16273013)

## objectives

Used about 2 592 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 904 · UN documents ≈ 1 564).

- Dans le nouveau programme d' action, trois objectifs **généraux** remplacent les huit programmes en cours.
  Under the new programme, three global **objectives** replace the eight programmes currently in operation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 179898)

- Afin d’atteindre les objectifs **généraux**, le RSUE a pour mandat:
  In order to achieve the policy **objectives**, the mandate of the EUSR shall be:
  ([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 5077460)

- Toutefois, ces priorités doivent être compatibles avec les objectifs **généraux** du gouvernement.
  However, these priorities are required to be shown to arise from wider Government **objectives**.
  ([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 4372518)

- (EN) Monsieur le Président, je voudrais féliciter Mme De Sarnez pour ce rapport très approfondi et ses objectifs **généraux**.
  Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mrs De Sarnez on this very comprehensive report and its generous **objectives**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147611)

- Afin d'atteindre les objectifs **généraux**, le RSUE a pour mandat:
  In order to achieve the policy **objectives**, the mandate of the EUSR shall be to:
  ([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 3812705)

## national

Used about 1 776 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 31 · legal and administrative ≈ 181 · UN documents ≈ 1 564). Meaning: [national in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/national/).

- En d'autres termes, cela signifierait céder à la logique des **généraux**, ne pas accepter la décision du peuple et, en fait, miner la Ligue nationale pour la démocratie.
  In other words, it would mean giving in to the logic of the generals, not accepting the decision of the people and basically undermining the **National** League for Democracy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 469070)

- En revanche, la planification et l’exécution de ces plans de contrôle spécifiques devront être intégrées dans les plans de contrôle nationaux **généraux**.
  However, the **national** control plans should integrate the planning and implementation of such specific control plans into the overall national control plans.
  ([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 1132339)

- 74. Ces processus ne sont pas indépendants les uns des autres et ils ne peuvent être coupés des processus **généraux** de décision au niveau national.
  74. These processes are not independent one from the other and cannot be steered in isolation from the broader **national** policy processes.
  ([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 14044881)

## staff

Used about 1 564 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 564). Meaning: [staff in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/staff/).

- Par contre, il recommande d &apos; engager cinq agents des services **généraux** recrutés localement au lieu des 10 demandés au paragraphe 20 du rapport.
  The Committee also recommends an increase of 5 Local level **staff** instead of the 10 indicated in paragraph 20 of the report.
  ([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 1621800)

## More sentences

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

- Tous les quartiers algériens sont sales hormis ceux où vivent les **généraux**.
  All Algerian neighborhoods are dirty except where the generals live.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#8135225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8135225) [\#8135226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8135226))

- J'ai parlé à mon ami des Renseignements **Généraux**.
  I talked to my friend in the FBI.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1970120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970120) [\#1970813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970813))

- Les **généraux** étasuniens croyaient qu'ils pouvaient remporter une victoire facile.
  American generals believed they could win an easy victory.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#802811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802811) [\#1592272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1592272))

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