Elamur: [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Parse](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/parse/) · [Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · **Translate** · [Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [MCP](https://mcp.elamur.ai/) · [Groupants](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/)

This page as HTML: <https://translate.elamur.ai/free/en/fr-en/mineur/>

# mineur — French to English

How French *mineur* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: mineur (22 790), mineure (4 059), mineures (7 752), mineurs (81 123). By style: everyday 44 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 822 · legal and administrative 4 059 · UN documents 109 795.

## minor

Used about 81 545 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 1 319 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 573 · UN documents ≈ 76 628). Forms: minor, minors. Meaning: [minor in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/minor/).

- Tu es **mineur**.
  You're a **minor**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ninefi and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13796840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13796840) [\#13798394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13798394))

- Ce n'est pas un point d'importance **mineure**.
  This is not a **minor** point.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 310110)

- XDE\_175-L (facteur **mineur**)
  XDE\_175-L (**Minor** factor)
  ([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 3255354)

- 38/08, affaire de la **mineure** A1.
  38/08 on the case of **minor** A1.
  ([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 24138078)

- Tu es **mineure**.
  You're a **minor**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ninefi and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13796840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13796840) [\#13798395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13798395))

## More sentences

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

- Le **mineur** a demandé au génie de la lampe une vie heureuse.
  The miner asked the genie of the lamp for a happy life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nrms and Joutsentaika · checked, community translation · [\#5966168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5966168) [\#1585173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1585173))

- Je sais que Tom est **mineur** de fond.
  I know Tom is a coal miner.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7521325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7521325) [\#7526259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7526259))

- Le **mineur** a demandé au génie de la lampe une vie heureuse.
  The miner asked the lamp spirit for a happy life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nrms and phiz · checked, community translation · [\#413513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413513) [\#1585173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1585173))

## 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/).

## About these examples

Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. [Submit a better translation or example](https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/submit/?pair=fr-en&word=mineur).


Every example is quoted under its source's licence and credited with it; the rest of the site is open under the Elamur Cosmic License.