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# meilleures — French to English

How French *meilleures* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: meilleures (45 348). By style: everyday 92 · literary 2 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 3 391 · legal and administrative 3 532 · UN documents 38 321.

## best

Used about 36 064 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 625 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 238 · UN documents ≈ 31 136). Meaning: [best in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/best/).

- Nous sommes les **meilleures**.
  We are the **best**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and CC · checked, community translation · [\#1226056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1226056) [\#2219199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2219199))

- 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)

- Saül répondit: Ils les ont amenés de chez les Amalécites, parce que le peuple a épargné les **meilleures** brebis et les meilleurs bœufs, afin de les sacrifier à l’Éternel, ton Dieu; et le reste, nous l’avons dévoué par interdit.
  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the **best** of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to the LORD your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 15:15)

- Elle constitue également une occasion d'échanger les **meilleures** pratiques.
  This would also be an opportunity to exchange **best** practices.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1475450)

- 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 3 044 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 272 · legal and administrative ≈ 147 · UN documents ≈ 1 597). Meaning: [better in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/better/).

- Nous sommes **meilleures** qu'elles.
  We're **better** than they are.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2713265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2713265) [\#6461242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461242))

- Quoique nous parlions ainsi, bien-aimés, nous attendons, pour ce qui vous concerne, des choses **meilleures** et favorables au salut.
  But, beloved, we are persuaded of **better** things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 6:9)

- 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)

- L'investissement n'est pas suffisamment rentable car il existe de **meilleures** opportunités ailleurs.
  The investment is not profitable enough as **better** opportunities exist elsewhere.
  ([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 5676173)

- Les outils ci-après pourraient être utilisés pour élaborer de **meilleures** méthodes dans ce domaine :
  The following tools could be used to develop **better** accountability methods:
  ([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 6388409)

## conditions

Used about 942 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 141 · UN documents ≈ 798).

- Il est allé là-bas pour aider les éboueurs à se mettre en grève pacifiquement pour réclamer un salaire plus élevé et de **meilleures** conditions de travail.
  He had gone there to help garbage workers strike peacefully for better pay and working **conditions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and CM · checked, community translation · [\#288218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288218) [\#426214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/426214))

- 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)

## practices

Used about 872 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 74 · UN documents ≈ 798). 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)

- c) Réduire autant que possible les risques inhérents au commerce international grâce à de **meilleures** pratiques commerciales.
  (c) minimizing the risks involved in international trade through better trading **practices**.
  ([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 3228402)

## good

Used about 800 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 798). Meaning: [good in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/good/).

- Si vous avez de la bonne volonté et si vous êtes dociles, Vous mangerez les **meilleures** productions du pays;
  If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the **good** of the land;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 1:19)

- 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)

- ne donnez donc point vos filles à leurs fils et ne prenez point leurs filles pour vos fils, et n’ayez jamais souci ni de leur prospérité ni de leur bien-être, et ainsi vous deviendrez forts, vous mangerez les **meilleures** productions du pays, et vous le laisserez pour toujours en héritage à vos fils.
  Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that you may be strong and eat the **good** of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 9:12)

## More sentences

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

- Ses **meilleures** années sont derrière lui, tu sais.
  He is over the hill, you know.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#293077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/293077) [\#470449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/470449))

- Sur Joseph il dit: Son pays recevra de l’Éternel, en signe de bénédiction, Le meilleur don du ciel, la rosée, Les **meilleures** eaux qui sont en bas,
  About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by the LORD, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 33:13)

- pour le discernement des choses les **meilleures**, afin que vous soyez purs et irréprochables pour le jour de Christ,
  so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 1:10)

## 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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