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# historique — French to English

How French *historique* 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: historique (28 278), historiques (13 023). By style: everyday 43 · literary 5 · parliamentary 4 775 · legal and administrative 3 564 · UN documents 32 914.

## historic

Used about 33 754 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 4 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 933 · UN documents ≈ 26 400). Forms: historic, historical, history. Meaning: [historic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/historic/).

- C’est une ville **historique**.
  This is a **historic** city.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zmoo and Ricardo14 · checked, community translation · [\#61786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61786) [\#533519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/533519))

- Elle doit se composer de passé et être **historique**, se composer d'avenir et être sympathique.
  It should be composed of past and be **historic**; be composed of future and be sympathetic.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18090)

- C'est un événement **historique**.
  This is an **historical** event.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991826)

- niveau d’activité **historique** exprimé en CWT
  **historical** activity level expressed as CWT
  ([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 2250135)

- A. Éléments moteurs **historiques**
  A. **Historic** driving forces
  ([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 7206251)

## background

Used about 4 288 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 99 · legal and administrative ≈ 74 · UN documents ≈ 4 114). Meaning: [background in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/background/).

- Permettez-moi de vous rappeler brièvement l'**historique** de cette proposition.
  Allow me briefly to remind you of the **background**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1871085)

- L’**historique** et les modalités de ces dispositifs ainsi que le champ des missions qu’ils financent sont décrits ci-après.
  The **background** to and rules governing these instruments, and the tasks financed by them, are described below.
  ([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 3506384)

- II. **Historique** du mandat
  II. **Background** of the mandate
  ([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 28819548)

- Très brièvement, il est utile que nous nous rappelions l'**historique** du problème.
  Very briefly, it is worth reminding ourselves what the **background** to this issue is.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 50503)

- Création de BSCA et de la SOWAER — **Historique** des engagements de la Région wallonne et de la SOWAER relatifs à Brussels South Charleroi Airport
  Creation of BSCA and SOWAER — **Background** to the commitments made by the Walloon Region and SOWAER concerning Brussels South Charleroi Airport
  ([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 3875878)

## More sentences

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

- Le prix de l'action a marqué un record **historique** de cent-quinze dollars, hier.
  The share price has notched an all-time of $115 yesterday.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3643631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3643631) [\#3643634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3643634))

- Le nombre de demandeurs d'emploi est au plus haut **historique**.
  The number of jobless is at an all time high.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1363517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1363517) [\#1390033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1390033))

- Dans une perspective **historique**, les personnes utilisant des fourchettes ont toujours été une minorité.
  Fork-users have historically been in the minority.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#34379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34379) [\#389752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/389752))

## 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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