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# informel — French to English

How French *informel* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: informel (39 255), informels (9 673). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 876 · legal and administrative 315 · UN documents 47 736.

## informal

Used about 47 329 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 803 · legal and administrative ≈ 282 · UN documents ≈ 46 244). Meaning: [informal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/informal/).

- C'est un Conseil européen **informel**.
  It is an **informal** European Council.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1903667)

- à IC3 sur les soins **informels**.
  till IC3 on **informal** care.
  ([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 2776744)

- Document **informel**: INF.4 (ICCA)
  **Informal** document: INF.4 (ICCA)
  ([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 21438320)

- Venons-en d’abord au sommet **informel**.
  I shall first of all come to the **informal** summit.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 733121)

- Fourniture de soins ou d'assistance **informels**
  Provision of **informal** care or assistance
  ([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 4596648)

## document

Used about 497 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 497). Forms: document, documents. Meaning: [document in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/document/).

- Le GRSG est convenu de fusionner les documents **informels** GRSG-102-08 et GRSG-102-09 en un seul document officiel.
  In this respect, GRSG agreed to merge GRSG-102-08 and GRSG-102-09 in one official **document**.
  ([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 26402688)

## inf

Used about 497 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 497).

- La méthode d &apos; épreuve proposée dans le document ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2014/14 telle que modifiée par le document **informel** INF.31, a été adoptée (voir ST/SG/AC.10/42/Add.2).
  The proposed test method in document ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2014/14 with the amendments listed in **INF**.31 was adopted (see ST/SG/AC.10/42/Add.2).
  ([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 30276013)

## formal

Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10). Meaning: [formal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/formal/).

- soutien juridique et financier aux entreprises pour passer du secteur **informel** au secteur privé formel,
  legal and financial support for businesses moving from informality into the **formal** private sector,
  ([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 4774394)

## More sentences

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

- La réunion avait un air **informel**.
  The meeting had an air of informality.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10478168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10478168) [\#10526187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10526187))

- La Commission s' est toutefois efforcée, au sein du groupe de travail **informel** et du comité consultatif, d' arrêter des principes adoptés en commun.
  The Commission, however, has sought, in unofficial working parties and in an advisory committee, to introduce jointly approved principles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 173554)

- Dès lors, des millions de personnes doivent se diriger vers le secteur **informel** qui, compte tenu des intermédiaires, propose des prix cinq à dix fois plus chers.
  Consequently, millions of people have to resort to unofficial sources which, taking into account the intermediaries, charge prices that are five or ten times higher.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1227719)

## Grammar

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