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# importance — French to English

How French *importance* 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: importance (228 243), importances (40). By style: everyday 203 · literary 2 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 23 055 · legal and administrative 9 607 · UN documents 195 411.

## important

Used about 133 741 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 104 · parliamentary ≈ 18 178 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 551 · UN documents ≈ 110 909). Forms: importance, important. Meaning: [important in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/important/).

- C'est de cette **importance**.
  It's that **important**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2249306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249306) [\#12471976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12471976))

- Ce problème revêt une **importance** capitale pour nous.
  This is critically **important** to us.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1962011)

- La température revêt donc une **importance** capitale.
  The temperature is of paramount **importance**.
  ([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 1506681)

- f) Examen de l &apos; **importance** d &apos; une définition de la cybercriminalité.
  (f) Examination of the **importance** of the definition of cybercrime.
  ([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 24730373)

- Quelle est l'**importance** de la santé ?
  How **important** is health?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13710849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13710849) [\#13710847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13710847))

## great

Used about 445 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 443). Meaning: [great in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/great/).

- Il brûla la maison de l’Éternel, la maison du roi, et toutes les maisons de Jérusalem; il livra au feu toutes les maisons de quelque **importance**.
  He burned the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every **great** house with fire.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 25:9)

- La rapporteure a souligné toute l'**importance** d'améliorer la surveillance dans le but de garantir une plus grande sécurité des produits.
  The rapporteur has placed **great** emphasis on the need for increased supervision, with the aim of achieving a higher level of product safety.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1507993)

- Il brûla la maison de l’Éternel, la maison du roi, et toutes les maisons de Jérusalem; il livra au feu toutes les maisons de quelque **importance**.
  He burned the LORD’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every **great** house, he burned with fire.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 52:13)

## More sentences

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

- Son opinion était sans **importance**.
  His opinion was unimportant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CM · checked, community translation · [\#285493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285493) [\#335763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335763))

- Tu sais que ça n'a pas d'**importance**.
  You know it doesn't matter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2283692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2283692) [\#2285689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2285689))

- Je suppose que ça n'aura pas d'**importance**.
  I guess it won't matter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2276272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276272) [\#2426501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2426501))

## 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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