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# occidental — French to English

How French *occidental* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: occidental (22 415), occidentale (32 875), occidentales (2 254), occidentaux (5 934). By style: everyday 101 · literary 2 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 4 274 · legal and administrative 2 345 · UN documents 56 745.

## western

Used about 59 074 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 4 096 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 260 · UN documents ≈ 52 607). Forms: west, western. Meaning: [western in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/western/).

- Vive le Sahara **occidental**.
  Long live **Western** Sahara.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10331945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10331945) [\#10896799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10896799))

- Et, partageant sa stupéfaction, sinon sa joie, je lus sur la face **occidentale** du bloc, en caractères runiques à demi-rongés par le temps, ce nom mille fois maudit:
  And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the **western** face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name:
  ([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 1403)

- Votre limite **occidentale** sera la grande mer: ce sera votre limite à l’occident.
  “‘For the **western** border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 34:6)

- Situation au Sahara **occidental** (débat)
  Situation in **Western** Sahara (debate)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1445199)

- la région de Grèce **occidentale**,
  Region of **Western** Greece
  ([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 3844378)

## sahara

Used about 296 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 296).

- La situation concernant le Sahara **occidental**
  La situation concernant le **Sahara** occidental
  ([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 4212314)

## balkans

Used about 22 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 22). Forms: balkan, balkans.

- Monsieur le Président, le point d'orgue de la présidence grecque a été un sommet spécial avec les nouvelles nations des Balkans **occidentaux**.
  Mr President, the climax of the Greek Presidency was a special summit involving the new nations of the West **Balkans**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 473802)

## More sentences

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

- La langue internationale Interlingue a été publiée en 1922 sous le nom **Occidental**.
  The international language Interlingue was published in 1922 under the name Occidental.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bleton and Valodnieks · checked, community translation · [\#2472516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2472516) [\#2817420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2817420))

- En général les **occidentaux** ne mangent pas de poisson cru.
  Generally speaking, Westerners don't eat fish raw.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aandrusiak and CK · checked, community translation · [\#27325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/27325) [\#14011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14011))

- Il vit au Sahara **occidental** une importante communauté marocaine, tandis que des ressortissants de l’ancienne colonie espagnole résident à l’extérieur du pays.
  There is a large community of immigrants from Morocco living in the country, for example, whilst a number of people from the former Spanish colony remain outside the territory.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735993)

## 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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