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# national — French to English

How French *national* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: national (463 755), nationale (351 636), nationales (269 684), nationals (1 171), nationaux (215 752). By style: everyday 114 · literary 7 · parliamentary 38 130 · legal and administrative 93 382 · UN documents 1 170 365.

## national

Used about 1 162 305 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 98 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 34 158 · legal and administrative ≈ 84 466 · UN documents ≈ 1 043 575). Forms: national, nationals. Meaning: [national in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/national/).

- Ce fut un scandale **national**.
  It was a **national** scandal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1649988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1649988) [\#1650835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650835))

- Ce poste était occupé par des gardes **nationaux** de la banlieue.
  This post was occupied by the **National** Guards of the suburbs.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25276)

- On va les mettre en œuvre au niveau **national**.
  We will implement them at **national** level.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1368005)

- Selon les spécifications **nationales**
  According to **national** specifications
  ([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 851267)

- Non-expulsion des **nationaux**
  Non-expulsion of **nationals**
  ([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 22007318)

## level

Used about 16 165 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 596 · legal and administrative ≈ 939 · UN documents ≈ 14 630). Meaning: [level in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/level/).

- Le matelot est le grade de base des équipages de la Marine **nationale**, embarqué sur tous types de bâtiments.
  The seaman is the entry-**level** rank of Navy crew members, serving aboard various types of ships.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362947) [\#13362946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362946))

- Au Royaume-Uni, le gouvernement a annoncé que le niveau de la dette **nationale** était le plus élevé de notre histoire.
  In the United Kingdom, the government has announced the largest **level** of borrowing in our history.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1171645)

- Sur cette base, le niveau du dumping à l'échelle **nationale** a été provisoirement établi à 40,3 % du prix caf frontière communautaire.
  On this basis, the country-wide **level** of dumping was provisionally established at 40,3 % of the cif Community frontier price.
  ([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 662386)

- Le FNUAP continuera de mettre l &apos; accent sur la participation aux activités de sensibilisation aux niveaux mondial, régional et **national**.
  23. UNFPA will continue its emphasis on strategic engagement in advocacy globally, regionally and at the country **level**.
  ([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 17114658)

- Par ailleurs, on peut débattre de la question de savoir si une restriction ou une interdiction serait plus efficace à l'échelle **nationale** ou européenne.
  Moreover, it is debatable whether a restriction or ban would be best imposed nationally or at European **level**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 895699)

## More sentences

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

- C'est une croyance répandue, d'après un sondage **national** aux États-Unis, que les musulmans sont liés au terrorisme.
  It is a prevalent belief, according to a nationwide poll in the United States, that Muslims are linked with terrorism.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH\_DAO and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#1958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1958) [\#3774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3774))

- L'équipe s'entraîna dur, car le championnat **national** était en danger.
  The team played hard because the championship of the state was at stake.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wakano and CK · checked, community translation · [\#266321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266321) [\#1906893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1906893))

- L'agence a une accréditation au niveau **national**.
  The agency is nationally accredited.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11958542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958542) [\#12493568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493568))

## 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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