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# importantes — French to English

How French *importantes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: importantes (89 599). By style: everyday 75 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 9 188 · legal and administrative 5 957 · UN documents 74 377.

## important

Used about 46 561 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 977 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 241 · UN documents ≈ 40 288). Meaning: [important in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/important/).

- Celles-là sont toutes **importantes**.
  Those are all **important**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4494325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494325) [\#4867240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4867240))

- «Troisièmement: la filature est bonne, avec relais des agents de distance en distance, mais il faudrait que, dans les occasions **importantes**, deux agents au moins ne se perdissent pas de vue, attendu que, si, pour une cause quelconque, un agent vient à faiblir dans le service, l'autre le surveille et le supplée.
  “Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on **important** occasions, it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in his service, the other may supervise him and take his place.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28714)

- Peu de questions sont aussi **importantes** que celle-là.
  There can be few matters as **important** as that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1758651)

- Les routes les moins **importantes** dans un réseau routier donné.
  The least **important** roads in a given network.
  ([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 2198572)

- Il existe d’autres formes **importantes** de subventions.
  Other forms of subsidy would also be **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 5093573)

## significant

Used about 13 367 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 340 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 730 · UN documents ≈ 9 297). Meaning: [significant in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/significant/).

- Des saisies **importantes** de cocaïne, qui ont été menées à grande échelle en Croatie, sont, pour la plupart, liées au transport maritime.
  **Significant** and large-scale cocaine seizures in Croatia are mostly connected with sea transport.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1567730)

- Leurs parts de marché restent **importantes** (environ 2 %).
  Their market share (around 2 %) is still **significant**.
  ([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 1568140)

- On citera ciaprès les plus **importantes**.
  The most **significant** ones can be listed below.
  ([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 10340351)

- Le texte du projet commun a subi d'**importantes** modifications, comme l'ont fait remarquer plusieurs députés au cours du débat.
  In the course of achieving that joint text, there have been **significant** changes, as Members reminded us, in the course of the debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1617799)

- Avis fondé sur d’**importantes** recherches documentaires et bibliographiques
  Opinion based on **significant** data and literature search and examination
  ([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 1997163)

## major

Used about 5 024 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 372 · UN documents ≈ 4 649). Meaning: [major in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/major/).

- Nous avons visité toutes les villes **importantes**.
  We toured all the **major** cities.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ulyssemc1 · checked, community translation · [\#686970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/686970) [\#7726779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7726779))

- L'effondrement du système bancaire en octobre 2008 a entraîné d'**importantes** turbulences économiques.
  **Major** economic turbulence followed the collapse of the banking system in October 2008.
  ([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 5653589)

- &lt; Mesures actuelles les plus **importantes** &gt;
  &lt; Current **Major** Measures &gt;
  ([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 20517581)

- Les officiers supérieurs, tels que le commandant, le lieutenant-colonel et le colonel, exercent des responsabilités **importantes** au sein des unités opérationnelles.
  Senior officers, such as the commandant (**major**), lieutenant colonel, and colonel, hold key responsibilities within operational units.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362847) [\#13362839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362839))

- Cet article est destiné à enregistrer les crédits résultant de la mobilisation du Fonds de solidarité de l'Union européenne en cas de catastrophes **importantes** dans les États membres.
  This article is intended to record appropriations resulting from the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund in the event of **major** disasters in the Member States.
  ([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 3447026)

## there

Used about 3 922 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 574 · legal and administrative ≈ 248 · UN documents ≈ 3 099). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- On ne reconnaît pas que cette zone est une des plus **importantes** réserves mondiales en matières premières et qu'elle suscite de nombreux intérêts multinationaux.
  **There** is no admission that this area is one of the largest stores of raw materials in the world and that many multinational interests are focused on this area.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2033505)

- le résultat du mesurage présente des variations suffisamment **importantes** pour être remarquées par tous ceux qui sont intéressés par le résultat du mesurage.
  **there** are variations in the measurement result severe enough to be noticed by all those interested in the measurement result.
  ([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 3203362)

- On note, cependant, des différences **importantes** d &apos; une municipalité à l &apos; autre.
  **There** are, however, considerable variations between municipalities.
  ([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 11915012)

- Nous constatons d'**importantes** améliorations dans la gestion comptable de ses comptes d'immobilisation et dans la présentation de l'inventaire, comme cela lui avait été demandé.
  We note that **there** have been considerable improvements in accounting management of real estate and in the presentation of the inventory as had been requested.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 441808)

- Premièrement, l’enquête a montré qu’il existait des surcapacités **importantes** de main-d’œuvre et de production, alors que la société a continué à investir dans des capacités supplémentaires.
  Firstly, the investigation showed that **there** was a serious overcapacity both in terms of labour and production, despite which the company continued to invest in additional capacity.
  ([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 1616540)

## very

Used about 191 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 191). Meaning: [very in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/very/).

- Je pense d'une manière générale que l'une de nos plus **importantes** missions consiste à continuer à inscrire ce point à l'ordre du jour.
  I think, in general, that it is one of our **very** major tasks to continue to keep these issues on the agenda.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 350359)

## More sentences

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

- À l'époque de la Renaissance, Florence était l'une des villes les plus **importantes** du monde.
  During the Renaissance, Florence was one of the greatest cities in the world.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3399394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3399394) [\#3630367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3630367))

- Le train avait deux heures de retard à cause des **importantes** chutes de neige.
  The train was delayed for two hours because of the heavy snow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1428373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1428373) [\#1428385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1428385))

- Ces grandes banques sont trop **importantes** pour faire faillite.
  These large banks are too big to fail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2720590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2720590) [\#12945815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12945815))

## 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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