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# moteur — French to English

How French *moteur* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: moteur (60 000), moteurs (26 733). By style: everyday 132 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 346 · legal and administrative 28 332 · UN documents 55 922.

## engine

Used about 57 666 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 119 · parliamentary ≈ 1 075 · legal and administrative ≈ 19 773 · UN documents ≈ 36 699). Forms: engine, engines. Meaning: [engine in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/engine/).

- Le **moteur** est bruyant.
  The **engine** is noisy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Josefwintzent · checked, community translation · [\#4685145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4685145) [\#8237602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8237602))

- Tous ces gros **moteurs** bouffeurs de diesel.
  So many huge diesel-guzzling **engines**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1460213)

- CHOIX DU **MOTEUR** DE BASE
  CHOICE OF THE PARENT **ENGINE**
  ([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 5482709)

- 35 Démarrage du **moteur** Commande Non
  35. **Engine** Start Control No
  ([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 15756134)

- Le **moteur** est cassé ?
  Is the **engine** broken?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and belvis · checked, community translation · [\#10622850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10622850) [\#10624475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10624475))

## motor

Used about 9 028 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 220 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 722 · UN documents ≈ 4 078). Meaning: [motor in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/motor/).

- Le **moteur** ne fonctionne pas correctement.
  The **motor** does not function properly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#31134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/31134) [\#2322086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2322086))

- Il nous faut un nouveau **moteur** pour le remplacer.
  We need another **motor** to replace it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 693381)

- Indice d'octane **moteur** (IOM) \[35\]
  **Motor** octane number, MON \[35\]
  ([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 5545278)

- Dpm est le déplacement **moteur**/pompe (m3);
  Dpm is the pump/**motor** displacement, m3
  ([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 29820555)

- Le **moteur** a surchauffé et émet maintenant de la fumée.
  The **motor** overheated and is now emitting smoke.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and LB · checked, community translation · [\#4445259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4445259) [\#4466468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4466468))

## power

Used about 4 955 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 295 · UN documents ≈ 4 660). Meaning: [power in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/power/).

- Le dispositif d’immobilisation doit être conçu de manière telle à empêcher le fonctionnement du véhicule mû par son **moteur** grâce à l’un au moins des moyens suivants:
  An immobiliser shall be designed so as to prevent the operation of the vehicle under its own **power** by at least one of the following means:
  ([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 5502361)

- (Lampes à incandescence des véhicules à **moteur** et de leurs remorques)
  (Filament lamps of **power**-driven vehicles and their trailers)
  ([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 20912459)

- PRESCRIPTIONS UNIFORMES RELATIVES À L &apos; HOMOLOGATION DES FEUX INDICATEURS DE DIRECTION POUR VÉHICULES À **MOTEUR** ET LEURS REMORQUES
  Uniform provisions concerning the approval of direction indicators for **power**-driven vehicles and their trailers
  ([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 22904959)

- FMd 1/ Réaction statique totale du revêtement normale à sa surface sur les essieux non freinés et **moteurs** d &apos; un véhicule à **moteur**
  FMd 1/ total normal static reaction of road surface on the unbraked and driven axles of the **power**-driven vehicle
  ([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 12296103)

- 5.4.2.1 Les véhicules à **moteur** doivent être capables de donner des signaux d &apos; alarme en cas de défaillance ou de défaut de la direction, comme suit:
  5.4.2.1. **Power**-driven vehicles shall be capable of providing steering failure and defect warning signals, as follows:
  ([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 12788823)

## diesel

Used about 1 748 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 748). Meaning: [diesel in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/diesel/).

- SURVEILLANCE DU CATALYSEUR À OXYDATION POUR **MOTEURS** DIESEL
  **DIESEL** OXIDATION CATALYST (DOC) MONITORING
  ([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 17455432)

- a) Règlements no 96 (Émissions des **moteurs** diesel (Tracteurs agricoles) et no 120 (Puissance nette des tracteurs et des engins mobiles non routiers);
  (a) UN Regulations Nos. 96 (**diesel** emission (agricultural tractors)) and 120 (net power of tractors and non-road mobile machinery);
  ([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 28146796)

- Par ailleurs, en avril 1998, des normes comparables aux normes californiennes ont été introduites pour les émissions des voitures privées et neuves à **moteur** diesel.
  And, in April 1998, we introduced emission standards for new **diesel** private cars comparable to those in California.
  ([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 6166439)

## driving

Used about 1 583 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 415 · UN documents ≈ 1 165).

- Le progrès est un joli mot. Son **moteur** en est le changement. Et le changement a ses ennemis.
  Progress is a lovely word. But its **driving** force is change, and change has its enemies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#4539183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4539183) [\#2292182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2292182))

- Nombre de ces PME sont le **moteur** de l’innovation.
  Many of these SMEs are the **driving** force behind innovation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 820573)

- Le nickel et le tourisme sont deux puissants **moteurs** de l &apos; économie calédonienne.
  Nickel and tourism are the two main sectors **driving** the New Caledonian economy.
  ([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 29425442)

- Je pense que les mers doivent continuer à être un **moteur** de la croissance économique.
  I believe that the seas should continue to be the **driving** force of economic growth.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1425720)

- S &apos; attaquer aux changements climatiques est l &apos; un des **moteurs** de notre stratégie nationale en matière de développement durable.
  Addressing climate change is one of the key **driving** forces of our national strategy for sustainable development.
  ([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 17995235)

## vehicles

Used about 1 181 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 181). Forms: vehicle, vehicles.

- Feux de brouillard arrière des véhicules à **moteur** et de leurs remorques
  Rear fog lamps for power-driven **vehicles** and their trailers
  ([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 4640032)

- consommation de carburant de la puissance effective consommée pour les véhicules à **moteur** à essence, soit 0,264 l/kWh;
  Consumption of effective power for petrol-fuelled **vehicles**, which is 0,264 l/kWh
  ([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 3796114)

- Le véhicule est alors emmené au **moteur** jusqu'à l'enceinte de mesure, en utilisant au minimum la pédale d'accélérateur.
  The **vehicle** is then driven to the measuring chamber with a minimum use of the accelerator pedal.
  ([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 5443194)

- Les groupes motopropulseurs électriques sont composés de systèmes de commande et de **moteurs** et constituent l’unique mode de propulsion des véhicules qu’ils équipent.
  The electric drive trains are composed of controllers and motors and are used for propulsion of **vehicles** as the sole mode of propulsion.
  ([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 5534808)

## More sentences

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

- La publicité est le **moteur** des affaires.
  Advertising is what drives business.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7870950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7870950) [\#8485728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8485728))

- Pour nous, en ajournant le développement de notre pensée à une autre occasion, nous nous bornons à dire que nous ne comprenons ni l'homme comme point de départ, ni le progrès comme but, sans ces deux forces qui sont les deux **moteurs**: croire et aimer.
  For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two forces which are their two motors: faith and love.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11102)

- Pour mettre en œuvre une solution globale, il faut tout d'abord jouer un rôle **moteur** lors de la conférence du G20 organisée à Londres au début du mois prochain.
  Delivering on a global solution starts with playing a leading role in the G20 conference in London at the beginning of next month.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1224846)

## Grammar

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