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# locale — French to English

How French *locale* 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: locale (43 782), locales (115 519). By style: everyday 40 · literary 3 · parliamentary 5 643 · legal and administrative 8 744 · UN documents 144 871.

## local

Used about 140 292 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 290 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 197 · UN documents ≈ 126 762). Meaning: [local in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/local/).

- C'est une coutume **locale**.
  This is a **local** custom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7733600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7733600) [\#11235161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11235161))

- Cette «visite pastorale» fut naturellement une occasion de bourdonnement pour les petites coteries **locales**:
  This “pastoral visit” naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of comment in all the little **local** coteries.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 987)

- Dégroupage de l'accès à la boucle **locale** (télécommunications)
  Unbundled access to **local** loop
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 111316)

- détenue par les administrations **locales**
  held by **local** government
  ([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 4573675)

- Rôle des autorités **locales**
  18/10 The role of **local** authorities
  ([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 14773194)

## community

Used about 6 127 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 91 · UN documents ≈ 6 036). Forms: communities, community. Meaning: [community in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/community/).

- Permis pour la gestion des forêts assurée par les communautés **locales**
  Permit for **community** forest management
  ([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 161401)

- Le 26 novembre 2008, le Comité avait rencontré des représentants de la communauté **locale** pour déterminer la voie à suivre.
  The Committee met with representatives of the Reserve **community** on 26 November 2008 to map the way forward.
  ([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 20243371)

- Le Rapporteur spécial encourage les États à coopérer dans ce sens avec les médias, les ONG et les associations **locales**.
  The Special Rapporteur encourages States to cooperate with the media, NGOs and **community**-based organizations in this endeavour.
  ([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 18425473)

- En particulier, on encouragera au niveau des ménages, de la population **locale** et au niveau national, un modèle de développement &lt; &lt; vert &gt; &gt; .
  Particularly, \`green &apos; development will be promoted at household, **community** and national levels.
  ([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 26156104)

- Ses activités **locales** ont consisté à ouvrir un orphelinat et une école et à fournir des services médicaux à la population.
  **Community** activities included the Unit &apos; s establishment of an orphanage and school, and the provision of medical services to the population.
  ([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 21351691)

## More sentences

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

- Quand on part à l'étranger, c'est utile d'apprendre au moins quelques formules de politesse dans la langue **locale**.
  When traveling abroad, it's helpful to learn at least a few chance words and phrases of your destination.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dorenda and jeanne · checked, community translation · [\#460305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460305) [\#405413](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/405413))

- Aussi loin que l'on puisse remonter, personne ne se souvient de l'existence d'une administration civile **locale**.
  There has not been any indigenous civil administration in East Timor for as long as anybody can remember.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2014458)

- Pour sortir de ce bourbier, il sera également nécessaire, tant pour la santé économique mondiale que **locale**, de vérifier que le système financier dispose de capitaux suffisants.
  To emerge from the quagmire of the crisis, it is also necessary, for both localised and global economic health, to show there is sufficient capital in the finance system.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1137228)

## Grammar

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