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# initiale — French to English

How French *initiale* 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: initiale (39 031), initiales (10 703). By style: everyday 14 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 364 · legal and administrative 14 370 · UN documents 32 985.

## initial

Used about 34 261 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 182 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 682 · UN documents ≈ 24 395). Meaning: [initial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/initial/).

- Mon hypothèse **initiale** était correcte.
  My **initial** assumption was correct.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3921589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3921589) [\#8849952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8849952))

- Quelles seront exactement ses tâches **initiales**?
  What exactly should its **initial** tasks be?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1390418)

- Traitement des demandes **initiales**
  Treatment of **initial** applications
  ([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 394666)

- c) Des conditions de remplissage **initiales**;
  (c) The **initial** filling conditions;
  ([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 29787964)

- L’élève gendarme suit sa formation **initiale** à l’école de gendarmerie avant d’être affecté à une brigade.
  The gendarme trainee undergoes **initial** training at the gendarmerie school before being assigned to a brigade.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362920) [\#13362919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362919))

## original

Used about 6 996 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 936 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 341 · UN documents ≈ 1 718). Meaning: [original in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/original/).

- La durée de la passion est proportionnelle à la résistance **initiale** de la femme.
  The duration of passion is proportionate with the **original** resistance of the woman.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#3073279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3073279) [\#10370104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10370104))

- Je voudrais revenir sur votre question **initiale**.
  I should like to come back to your **original** question.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 893426)

- Expositions **initiales** non domestiques
  Non-domestic **original** exposures
  ([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 3660097)

- Dans les propositions ciaprès, le texte de la rédaction **initiale** est indiqué en caractères gras.
  In the proposals that follow, references to the text of the **original** draft are highlighted in bold.
  ([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 8117582)

- Ils faisaient partie des propositions **initiales** sur les agents physiques.
  They were part of the **original** physical agents proposal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 550684)

## More sentences

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

- Le cancer peut être facilement guéri s'il est détecté dans sa phase **initiale**.
  Cancer can be cured easily if it is found in its first phase.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#63418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/63418) [\#499370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/499370))

- Ce fut notre rencontre **initiale**.
  That was our first encounter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1504235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1504235) [\#1505311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1505311))

- Mon intuition **initiale** était loin du compte.
  My first guess was wide of the mark.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and morbrorper · checked, community translation · [\#11769029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11769029) [\#796963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/796963))

## 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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