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# ministre — French to English

How French *ministre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 7 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: ministre (128 656), ministres (70 883). By style: everyday 106 · literary 7 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 17 734 · legal and administrative 7 527 · UN documents 174 142.

## minister

Used about 182 946 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 100 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 16 071 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 135 · UN documents ≈ 159 630). Forms: minister, ministers. Meaning: [minister in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/minister/).

- Avez-vous vu le **ministre** ?
  Have you seen the **minister**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alemfarid and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#11939612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11939612) [\#9362033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9362033))

- Personne ne lui parla, pas même le **ministre**.
  No one spoke to him, not even the **Minister**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22771)

- et Ira de Jaïr était **ministre** d’état de David.
  and Ira the Jairite was chief **minister** to David.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 20:26)

- Monsieur le **Ministre**, merci beaucoup.
  Thank you very much, **Minister**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1122122)

- Ex-**ministre** de la justice.
  Former **Minister** of Justice.
  ([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 2795045)

## council

Used about 2 077 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 78 · UN documents ≈ 1 814). Meaning: [council in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/council/).

- Le Premier **ministre** a consulté tous les autres membres du Conseil européen.
  The Taoiseach has spoken with all other members of the European **Council**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 570261)

- La présente directive promeut les droits de l'enfant, en tenant compte des lignes directrices du Comité des **ministres** du Conseil de l'Europe sur une justice adaptée aux enfants.
  This Directive promotes the rights of the child, taking into account the Guidelines of the **Council** of Europe on child-friendly justice.
  ([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 3899552)

- Dans le domaine militaire, le Conseil des **ministres** a examiné les activités de coopération militaire au cours de la période écoulée et a exprimé sa satisfaction face aux progrès accomplis.
  In the military sphere, the Ministerial **Council** was informed of progress in military cooperation during the preceding period.
  ([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 13041770)

## president

Used about 1 999 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 185 · UN documents ≈ 1 814). Meaning: [president in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/president/).

- . - Madame la Présidente, Monsieur le **Ministre**, Mesdames et Messieurs les Députés, j’ai écouté avec un grand intérêt vos remarques et commentaires de cette après-midi.
  . Madam **President**, Mr Schmit, ladies and gentlemen, I have listened with great interest to your remarks and comments this afternoon.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 687096)

- Conseil de sécurité par le **Ministre** des affaires étrangères de la Bosnie-Herzégovine
  of Bosnia and Herzegovina addressed to the **President** of the Security Council
  ([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 2163389)

## foreign

Used about 1 814 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 814). Meaning: [foreign in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/foreign/).

- En 2011, le **Ministre** des affaires étrangères du Royaume-Uni a envoyé une lettre à son homologue camerounais pour encourager le Cameroun à devenir Partie à la Convention.
  In 2011, the **Foreign** Secretary of the United Kingdom sent a letter to his Cameroonian counterpart to encourage Cameroon to join the Convention.
  ([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 24110024)

## prime

Used about 1 814 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 814). Meaning: [prime in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prime/).

- À l &apos; hôpital, l &apos; interférence des agents du cabinet du Premier **Ministre** et des officiers du renseignement militaire dans les dossiers médicaux des patients rendent la situation insupportable.
  In the hospital, the interference of **Prime** Ministry Office agents and Army Intelligence officers in the patients &apos; medical cases make the situation unbearable.
  ([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 27475643)

## cabinet

Used about 82 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 78). Meaning: [cabinet in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cabinet/).

- Le premier **ministre** et ses collègues ont démissionné.
  The premier and his **cabinet** colleagues resigned.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#266136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266136) [\#1683321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1683321))

- Seules ces dernières entreprises sont visées par les aides d’État introduites par la décision du Conseil belge des **ministres** du 1er décembre 2000.
  The State aid introduced by the Belgian **Cabinet**’s decision of 1 December 2000 concerns only the component and engine manufacturers.
  ([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 1120153)

- Le conseil des **ministres** se réunit aujourd'hui pour discuter de la crise.
  The **Cabinet** is meeting today to discuss the crisis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#280759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280759) [\#1069060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1069060))

## affairs

Used about 2 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2). Meaning: [affairs in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/affairs/).

- Tychique, le bien-aimé frère et le fidèle **ministre**, mon compagnon de service dans le Seigneur, vous communiquera tout ce qui me concerne.
  All my **affairs** will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · COL 4:7)

- Afin que vous aussi, vous sachiez ce qui me concerne, ce que je fais, Tychique, le bien-aimé frère et fidèle **ministre** dans le Seigneur, vous informera de tout.
  But that you also may know my **affairs**, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:21)

## More sentences

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

- Ces statistiques ont été communiquées par le **ministre** algérien des finances.
  These statistics were communicated by the Algerian ministry of finance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8603595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8603595) [\#11837332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837332))

- C’est d’elle que j’ai été fait **ministre**, selon la charge que Dieu m’a donnée auprès de vous, afin que j’annonçasse pleinement la parole de Dieu,
  of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · COL 1:25)

- d’après les instructions que vous avez reçues d’Épaphras, notre bien-aimé compagnon de service, qui est pour vous un fidèle **ministre** de Christ,
  even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · COL 1:7)

## 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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