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# meilleure — French to English

How French *meilleure* 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: meilleure (67 131), meilleures (45 348). By style: everyday 568 · literary 5 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 13 582 · legal and administrative 8 003 · UN documents 90 301.

## best

Used about 53 908 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 361 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 5 518 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 752 · UN documents ≈ 43 269). Meaning: [best in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/best/).

- Vous êtes la **meilleure**.
  You are the **best**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549197) [\#2229010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2229010))

- Il lui dit les **meilleures** vérités qui sont les plus simples.
  He told him the **best** truths, which are also the most simple.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 210)

- Il prendra la **meilleure** partie de vos champs, de vos vignes et de vos oliviers, et la donnera à ses serviteurs.
  He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your **best**, and give them to his servants.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 8:14)

- Nous devons dès lors réfléchir à la **meilleure** manière d’y parvenir.
  We must look into the **best** way of achieving this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 632974)

- Échange des **meilleures** pratiques
  Exchange of **best** practices
  ([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 1456656)

## better

Used about 31 324 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 177 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 4 952 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 668 · UN documents ≈ 23 516). Meaning: [better in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/better/).

- J'ai une **meilleure** idée.
  I have a **better** idea.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1841682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1841682) [\#1842898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1842898))

- «--Monsieur le curé du bon Dieu, tout ceci est encore bien trop bon pour moi, mais je dois dire que les rouliers qui n'ont pas voulu me laisser manger avec eux font **meilleure** chère que vous.
  “‘Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep a **better** table than you do.’
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1755)

- car la loi n’a rien amené à la perfection, et introduction d’une **meilleure** espérance, par laquelle nous nous approchons de Dieu.
  (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a **better** hope, through which we draw near to God.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 7:19)

- Le peuple réclame plus de liberté et de **meilleures** conditions de vie.
  The people are calling for freedom and **better** living conditions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1514053)

- une **meilleure** utilisation des installations portuaires.
  the **better** use of the existing port facilities.
  ([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 2523659)

## conditions

Used about 2 164 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 283 · UN documents ≈ 1 881).

- Ceci nous permettra de préparer dans les **meilleures** conditions la mise en ?uvre du programme-cadre d'ici la fin de l'année.
  This will enable us to prepare, in optimum **conditions**, the implementation of the framework programme between now and the end of the year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 346818)

- i) renforcer les capacités d &apos; accueil des centres de transit pour que les opérations de rapatriement des réfugiés se déroulent dans les **meilleures** conditions;
  (i) Expand reception facilities in transit centres in order to ensure that refugee repatriation operations are carried out under the most favourable **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 2962025)

- La capitale européenne de la culture disposera ainsi à partir de 2005 de **meilleures** conditions pour s'affirmer comme l'occasion par excellence de la cohabitation interculturelle.
  Therefore, as of 2005, the European capital of culture will enjoy the optimum **conditions** for using the event as an ideal opportunity for inter-cultural collaboration.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1967347)

- Selon le HCR, les conditions de vie à Findel étaient globalement bonnes et sensiblement **meilleures** que celles de la prison de Schrassig, où ces personnes étaient auparavant retenues.
  According to UNHCR, overall, the **conditions** in Findel were good and were a significant improvement on those in the Schrassig prison, where such persons had previously been held.
  ([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 25815137)

## practices

Used about 83 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 83). Forms: practice, practices.

- Les pratiques de gestion de la ruche visent à obtenir les **meilleures** qualités de miels protégés par l'indication géographique.
  Hive management **practices** seek to produce the highest quality honeys covered by the geographical indication.
  ([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 1269252)

## More sentences

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

- Désignez à présent la **meilleure** entreprise en matière de parité.
  Nominate now the champion of gender-balanced business.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RoiOfTheSuisse and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#538976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/538976) [\#1589641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1589641))

- Je pense avoir déterminé quel cheval a la **meilleure** probabilité de gagner la course.
  I think I've figured out which horse is most likely to win the race.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1887713](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1887713) [\#2153198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2153198))

- S'il y a du sang, l'audience est **meilleure**.
  If it bleeds, it leads.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2192550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2192550) [\#2192915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2192915))

## Grammar

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