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# hauts — French to English

How French *hauts* 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: hauts (26 904). By style: everyday 34 · literary 5 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 701 · legal and administrative 826 · UN documents 25 263.

## senior

Used about 18 520 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 161 · legal and administrative ≈ 465 · UN documents ≈ 17 895). Meaning: [senior in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/senior/).

- De **hauts** fonctionnaires ont déclaré que l'on a cédé à des pressions politiques.
  **Senior** officials said that they were forced to give in to political pressure.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1681878)

- au niveau des **hauts** fonctionnaires;
  at **senior** official level;
  ([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 3125758)

- A. Segment **hauts** responsables
  A. **Senior** officials segment
  ([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 26503485)

- Assisté de **hauts** fonctionnaires, le groupe COHOM a déjà réussi à identifier les pays disposés à consentir à une série d'actions.
  With the help of **senior** officials, COHOM has already managed to identify which countries are willing to agree on an action package.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 415595)

- au niveau des **hauts** fonctionnaires et au niveau ministériel:
  at the level of **senior** officials and Ministers:
  ([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 50407)

## officials

Used about 2 245 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 88 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 2 105).

- Enfin, vous déclarez que vous procéder à la nomination de **hauts** fonctionnaires.
  Lastly, you say you are nominating high-level **officials**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1922211)

- Visites de **hauts** fonctionnaires
  Visits by high **officials**
  ([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 249045)

- Cette loi interdit aux anciens **hauts** fonctionnaires d &apos; exercer une activité professionnelle à titre privé pendant une période de deux ans.
  This law restricts such high **officials** from performing private professional activities for a period of 2 years.
  ([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 26550753)

- En 1993, le procureur général du Natal avait accusé **hauts** responsables d'homicide volontaire.
  The Attorney-General of Natal charged three top management **officials** with homicide in 1993.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1637098)

- Il a été l’un des premiers **hauts** fonctionnaires à demander l’arrestation de MOUSSAVI, de KARROUBI et de KHATAMI en 2009.
  One of the first high-ranking **officials** to demand in 2009 Moussavi, Karroubi and Khatami’s arrest.
  ([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 5185735)

## highest

Used about 1 646 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 58 · UN documents ≈ 1 579).

- Cette énorme affaire a été enterrée aux plus **hauts** niveaux du gouvernement.
  A massive coverup was orchestrated at the **highest** levels of government.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#673766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/673766) [\#809306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809306))

- Gloire à Dieu dans les lieux très **hauts**, Et paix sur la terre parmi les hommes qu’il agrée!
  “Glory to God in the **highest**, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 2:14)

- Cette attitude du Conseil, totalement condamnable, doit être stigmatisée aux plus **hauts** niveaux.
  The Council's attitude here is utterly wrong and should be censured at the **highest** level, beginning with a clear-cut rebuke from Parliament and its President.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1640277)

- La région du Centre affiche le plus fort taux d &apos; urbanisation (77,5 %) suivie de la région des **Hauts**-Bassins avec 34,7 %.
  Centre region had the **highest** level of urbanization (77.5 per cent) followed by Hauts-Bassins region with 34.7 per cent.
  ([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 27740535)

- Un maquillage de grande ampleur a été orchestré aux plus **hauts** niveaux du gouvernement.
  A massive coverup was orchestrated at the **highest** levels of government.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#673766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/673766) [\#961214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/961214))

## More sentences

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

- Les banques prélèvent des intérêts plus **hauts** sur les crédits aux clients à risque.
  Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#18430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18430) [\#332659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/332659))

- Je pense que les prix dans ce magasin sont bien trop **hauts**.
  I think the prices in this store are way too high.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1202249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1202249) [\#1202721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1202721))

- Dans la vie il y a des **hauts** et des bas.
  In life there are ups and downs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#2349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2349) [\#4213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4213))

## 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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