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# nécessaire — French to English

How French *nécessaire* 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: nécessaire (258 840), nécessaires (287 934). By style: everyday 455 · literary 15 · biblical 25 · parliamentary 37 911 · legal and administrative 89 157 · UN documents 419 211.

## necessary

Used about 265 290 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 289 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 16 191 · legal and administrative ≈ 56 652 · UN documents ≈ 192 138). Meaning: [necessary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/necessary/).

- Ce n'est pas **nécessaire**.
  It's not **necessary**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2249124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249124) [\#584682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584682))

- Mais, chose triste, de temps en temps, l'exceptionnel est **nécessaire**.
  But, sad to say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes **necessary**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23694)

- Mais bien plutôt, les membres du corps qui paraissent être les plus faibles sont **nécessaires**;
  No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are **necessary**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:22)

- En conclusion, les immigrés sont **nécessaires**, mais combien pouvons-nous en accepter?
  In conclusion, immigrants are **necessary**, but how many can we accept?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 549435)

- l'aide était limitée au minimum **nécessaire**;
  the aid was limited to the minimum **necessary**;
  ([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 3461627)

## required

Used about 82 069 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 975 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 216 · UN documents ≈ 69 869).

- Les réservations ne sont pas **nécessaires**.
  Reservations are not **required**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4501762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4501762) [\#4854055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4854055))

- —Eh bien! qu'une chance de salut se présente, qu'un moment d'action soit **nécessaire**, où trouverons-nous la force d'agir, si nous nous laissons affaiblir par l'inanition?
  "Well, if there is a chance of safety, if a moment for active exertion presents itself, where should we find the **required** strength if we allowed ourselves to be enfeebled by hunger?"
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3801)

- Le Conseil et la Commission doivent fournir sans attendre toutes les informations **nécessaires** aux enquêtes faisant suite à des plaintes émanant de citoyens.
  Any information **required** to answer people's enquiries must be forthcoming from the Council and the Commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1611398)

- Si le temps de chute est inférieur à 250, il n’est pas **nécessaire** d’ajouter de farine maltée.
  If the ‘falling number’ is lower than 250, no malt flour is **required**.
  ([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 1571010)

- Relèvement jusqu &apos; à 9,10 m **nécessaire**.
  Upgrading is **required** up to 9.10 m.
  ([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 9820070)

## needed

Used about 59 980 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 76 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 13 822 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 145 · UN documents ≈ 34 934). Forms: need, needed.

- Plus de recherches sont **nécessaires**.
  More research is **needed**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4501113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4501113) [\#5347424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5347424))

- Une seule chose est **nécessaire**. Marie a choisi la bonne part, qui ne lui sera point ôtée.
  but one thing is **needed**. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:42)

- Nous pensons que ces fonds seront **nécessaires** en 2004.
  We believe that the monies will be **needed** for 2004.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 509196)

- Une nouvelle action de l'Union est **nécessaire** pour mettre en œuvre certaines mesures,
  Further action by the Union is **needed** in order to implement certain measures,
  ([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 3855580)

- Compte tenu de l &apos; urgence des PANA, il est **nécessaire** d &apos; y remédier;
  Given the urgency and immediacy of NAPAs there is a **need** to address this delay;
  ([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 19326307)

## must

Used about 17 334 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 369 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 857 · UN documents ≈ 13 100). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Il est **nécessaire** de trouver un compromis raisonnable.
  A reasonable compromise **must** be found.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3878492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3878492) [\#3048312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3048312))

- Car là où il y a un testament, il est **nécessaire** que la mort du testateur soit constatée.
  For where a last will and testament is, there **must** of necessity be the death of him who made it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 9:16)

- C’est absolument **nécessaire**.
  That is an absolute **must**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 833148)

- Le constructeur prend les mesures **nécessaires** pour protéger le réglage maximal du débit d’injection de toute manipulation lorsque le véhicule est en service.
  Manufacturers **must** take adequate steps to protect the maximum fuel delivery setting from tampering while a vehicle is in-service.
  ([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 614378)

- 47. Si l &apos; on veut que les femmes puissent exercer leurs droits, elles doivent bénéficier des connaissances et des informations **nécessaires**.
  If women are to exercise their rights, they **must** have full knowledge and information.
  ([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 12154644)

## More sentences

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

- Merci de faire le **nécessaire**.
  Please do the needful.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and hecko · checked, community translation · [\#11034515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11034515) [\#13429888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13429888))

- Il ne sera pas **nécessaire** que vous me téléphoniez.
  You don't have to call me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and qwertzu · checked, community translation · [\#11352742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11352742) [\#417425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/417425))

- Il est **nécessaire** de congeler la viande.
  The meat has to be frozen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12994167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12994167) [\#10798329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10798329))

## Grammar

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