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# ordinaires — French to English

How French *ordinaires* 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: ordinaires (29 318). By style: everyday 10 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 850 · legal and administrative 1 640 · UN documents 26 814.

## regular

Used about 19 079 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 18 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 · UN documents ≈ 18 993). Meaning: [regular in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/regular/).

- Depuis 1972, la Communauté a signé avec l'UNRWA neuf conventions régissant la contribution CE aux budgets **ordinaires** et d'assistance alimentaire de l'organisation.
  Since 1972 the Community has signed nine conventions with UNRWA governing the EC contribution to the organisation' s **regular** and food aid budgets.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2009954)

- Lors des sessions **ordinaires** ou extraordinaires de cette conférence, les parties procèdent à un examen d'ensemble de l'application de la présente convention et peuvent:
  At meetings, whether **regular** or extraordinary, the Parties shall review the implementation of the present Convention and may:
  ([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 145240)

- Sessions **ordinaires** et extraordinaires
  **Regular** and special sessions
  ([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 8319245)

- Néanmoins, il est évident que les accessoires galvanisés électrolytiquement sont parfaitement interchangeables avec les accessoires **ordinaires** et qu’ils présentent, par conséquent, les mêmes caractéristiques physiques et techniques essentielles.
  However, it is clear that electro-galvanized fittings are fully interchangeable with **regular** fittings, and therefore have the same basic physical and technical characteristics.
  ([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 2720862)

- ORGANISATION DES TRAVAUX ET ORDRE DU JOURDES SESSIONS **ORDINAIRES**
  ORGANIZATION OF WORK AND AGENDA FOR **REGULAR** SESSIONS
  ([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 16450830)

## ordinary

Used about 3 459 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 638 · legal and administrative ≈ 581 · UN documents ≈ 2 235). Meaning: [ordinary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ordinary/).

- Je n'ai aucun intérêt dans les gens **ordinaires**.
  I have no interest in **ordinary** people.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and fcbond · checked, community translation · [\#182249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/182249) [\#892376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/892376))

- Des denrées tout à fait **ordinaires** couvrent les mêmes besoins.
  There are quite **ordinary** foods which cover the need.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1791927)

- Dividendes versés, actions **ordinaires**
  Dividends paid, **ordinary** shares
  ([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 5308560)

- Les personnes handicapées allaient vivre dans des appartements **ordinaires**, seules ou en petits groupes.
  Persons with intellectual disabilities will live in **ordinary** apartments either on their own or in small groups.
  ([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 25757239)

- J'utilise des bouts de papier **ordinaires** comme marque-pages.
  I use **ordinary** slips of paper as bookmarks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#553401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/553401) [\#8925043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8925043))

## resources

Used about 1 117 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 117).

- Il est prévu que cet élément du programme soit financé grâce à des ressources autres que les ressources **ordinaires**.
  37. This programme is expected to be essentially funded with other **resources**.
  ([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 15762105)

- c) En principe, toutes les activités visant à l &apos; efficacité du développement et les coûts connexes devraient être directement financées à partir des ressources **ordinaires** et des autres ressources.
  (c) In principle, development effectiveness activities and associated costs would need to be directly funded from core and non-core **resources**.
  ([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 26938572)

## More sentences

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

- La plupart des choses **ordinaires**, simples et quotidiennes qu'il désire peut être obtenue par des gens au revenu moyen.
  Most of the plain, simple, everyday things he desires can be secured by people of average means.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_Benedict\_1921 · checked, community translation · [\#847249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847249) [\#1036408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1036408))

- Il préfère les gens **ordinaires** et simples, car il est lui-même ordinaire et simple.
  He prefers plain, simple people, for he is plain and simple himself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_Benedict\_1921 · checked, community translation · [\#847213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847213) [\#1035618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035618))

- Pour les gens **ordinaires**, la religion est vérité, pour les sages, elle est mensonge, pour les dirigeants, elle est utile.
  Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gijom and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#490571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/490571) [\#1131527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1131527))

## Grammar

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