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# indépendant — French to English

How French *indépendant* 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: indépendant (56 323), indépendante (42 347), indépendantes (15 950), indépendants (43 178). By style: everyday 66 · literary 1 · parliamentary 6 870 · legal and administrative 17 139 · UN documents 133 722.

## independent

Used about 127 233 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 224 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 217 · UN documents ≈ 110 739). Meaning: [independent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/independent/).

- Tom est très **indépendant**.
  Tom is very **independent**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2273598](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2273598) [\#5646180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5646180))

- --C'est celui du prince, son mari, répondit le guide, un rajah **indépendant** du Bundelkund.
  “Is that of the prince, her husband,” said the guide; “an **independent** rajah of Bundelcund.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 822)

- Je suis heureux que la BCE soit **indépendante**.
  I am glad that the ECB is **independent**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1111546)

- Marquage des feux **indépendants**
  Marking of **independent** lamps
  ([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 5455760)

- Dar il-Wens (vivre **indépendant**)
  Dar il-Wens (**Independent** Living)
  ([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 10570476)

## self

Used about 6 307 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 107 · legal and administrative ≈ 628 · UN documents ≈ 5 572). Meaning: [self in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/self/).

- Le Fonds vise également à encourager l'esprit d'entreprise et le travail **indépendant**.
  The fund is also intended to promote entrepreneurship and **self**-employment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1306813)

- importance sociale (emploi, emploi **indépendant**),
  Social relevance (employment, **self**-employment),
  ([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 4772807)

- Employeurs et travailleurs **indépendants**
  Employers and **self**-employed persons
  ([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 24499688)

- Il y aussi la question du travail **indépendant** fictif et de certaines nouvelles formes d' emploi.
  Then there is the matter of bogus **self**-employment and certain new forms of employment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 87186)

- Variable 220407: Nombre de salariés et de travailleurs **indépendants** dans les entreprises employant le premier salarié
  Variable 220407: Number of employees and **self**-employed persons in enterprises having the first employee
  ([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 5245210)

## employed

Used about 754 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 751). Meaning: [employed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/employed/).

- Il est **indépendant**.
  He's self-**employed**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1768864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1768864) [\#1777955](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1777955))

- Ces six directives excluaient spécifiquement les **indépendants**.
  Those six directives specifically excluded the self-**employed**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1752318)

- Elle est **indépendante**.
  She's self-**employed**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1768865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1768865) [\#1777953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1777953))

- C'est vous qui souhaitez retirer les **indépendants** du champ d'application de la directive.
  It is you who wish to remove the self-**employed** from the directive.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1397295)

- Alex est travailleur **indépendant** et a sa propre entreprise.
  Alex is now self-**employed** and has his own company.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13902702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13902702) [\#13902704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13902704))

## More sentences

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

- C'est un film **indépendant**.
  It's an indie movie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1663111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1663111) [\#1663749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1663749))

- C'est un journaliste **indépendant**.
  He's a freelance journalist.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2171108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2171108) [\#2173425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2173425))

- Devenez **indépendant** sur le plan financier.
  Become financially free.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10869941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10869941) [\#11682094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11682094))

## Grammar

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