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# priorité — French to English

How French *priorité* 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: priorité (94 216), prioritées (1), priorités (95 528). By style: everyday 49 · literary 1 · parliamentary 17 102 · legal and administrative 8 584 · UN documents 164 009.

## priority

Used about 166 229 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 14 786 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 690 · UN documents ≈ 143 719). Forms: priorities, priority. Meaning: [priority in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/priority/).

- C'est notre **priorité**.
  That's our **priority**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2251184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251184) [\#11242195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11242195))

- --J'aurais la **priorité**, observa Laigle, mais je n'ai pas de chez moi.
  “I have the **priority**,” observed Laigle, “but I have no home.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14322)

- La **priorité** absolue doit aller à la sécurité.
  Safety must be given top **priority**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1518889)

- Transmission des signaux et **priorités**
  Signal flow and **priorities**
  ([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 5554314)

- :: Plan et **priorités** nationaux
  :: National plans and **priorities**
  ([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 22870941)

## high

Used about 356 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 356). Meaning: [high in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/high/).

- La promotion du respect et de la tolérance est également une **priorité** à l’ordre du jour.
  The promotion of respect and tolerance is also **high** on the agenda.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 751251)

- Enfin et surtout, j'espère que le commerce de détail, pilier de l'économie européenne, figurera également en haut de l'échelle des **priorités** politiques.
  Last but not least, I hope that retail, which is a pillar of the European economy, would also be **high** on the political agenda.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1535781)

## given

Used about 90 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 89).

- Les parents ont la **priorité** pour choisir le genre d'éducation que leurs enfants recevront.
  Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be **given** to their children.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Alico and jakov · checked, community translation · [\#554883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/554883) [\#580849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/580849))

- Si les animaux ne sont pas assez nombreux, ils seront affectés en **priorité** à la cohorte 2A.
  If there are insufficient numbers of animals, preference should be **given** to assign animals to Cohort 2A.
  ([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 3376958)

## More sentences

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

- L'Algérie donne la **priorité** à la croissance économique.
  Algeria prioritizes economic growth.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11727977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11727977) [\#12494973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494973))

- L'Algérie donne la **priorité** à la sécurité de l'emploi.
  Algeria prioritizes job security.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9453822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9453822) [\#11839995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11839995))

- Le personnel médical doit traiter en **priorité** les patients ayant les meilleures chances de survie.
  The medical staff has to prioritize patients with the best chances of survival.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#8621797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8621797) [\#9690389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9690389))

## 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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