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# publique — French to English

How French *publique* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: publique (189 747), publiques (119 388). By style: everyday 78 · literary 20 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 18 755 · legal and administrative 29 894 · UN documents 260 375.

## public

Used about 220 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · literary ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 15 629 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 043 · UN documents ≈ 181 720). Meaning: [public in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/public/).

- C'est une plage **publique**.
  This is a **public** beach.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2546452](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2546452) [\#3642557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3642557))

- Elle fut jetée à la fosse **publique**.
  She was thrown into the **public** grave.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6688)

- mirent les mains sur les apôtres, et les jetèrent dans la prison **publique**.
  and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in **public** custody.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:18)

- Il faut le dire à l'opinion **publique**!
  The **public** needs to know that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889888)

- Total des coûts des missions **publiques**
  Total **public** remit costs
  ([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 3800192)

## government

Used about 31 588 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 195 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 557 · UN documents ≈ 29 835). Meaning: [government in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/government/).

- Les dépenses **publiques** deviennent un peu incontrôlables.
  **Government** spending is getting a little out of hand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#271419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271419) [\#11997046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11997046))

- Le seul moyen d' éviter cette misère réside dans une brusque augmentation considérable des dépenses **publiques**.
  The only way to stave off that poverty then is to suddenly raise **government** spending sharply.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 194490)

- Produits tirés des subventions **publiques**
  Income from **government** grants
  ([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 5314408)

- 101. Dans les écoles **publiques**, une période de quarante-cinq minutes par semaine est consacrée à l &apos; instruction religieuse.
  101. In **government** schools, a period of 45 minutes per week is allocated to religious instruction.
  ([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 22210408)

- Au Royaume-Uni, un titre d’État est une garantie **publique**.
  A gilt is a UK **Government** security.
  ([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 1698830)

## civil

Used about 15 083 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 586 · legal and administrative ≈ 934 · UN documents ≈ 13 561). Meaning: [civil in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/civil/).

- Il y a une hiérarchie très stricte dans la fonction **publique**.
  There's a very rigid hierarchy in the **Civil** Service.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and voxbubnya · checked, community translation · [\#241131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241131) [\#12451117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12451117))

- Néanmoins, nous constatons que la commission d'administration **publique** ne fonctionne pas encore complètement.
  However, we note that the **Civil** Service Commission is not yet fully functioning.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 410402)

- LE TRIBUNAL DE LA FONCTION **PUBLIQUE** DE L’UNION EUROPÉENNE,
  THE EUROPEAN UNION **CIVIL** SERVICE TRIBUNAL,
  ([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 2570350)

- Commission de la fonction **publique** internationale
  International **Civil** Service Commission
  ([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 10938800)

- Un rapport réalisé par la STOA à la demande de la commission des libertés **publiques** traite de l'évaluation des techniques de contrôle politique.
  A report carried out by the STOA at the request of the Committee on **Civil** Liberties deals with the evaluation of political control techniques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1877798)

## health

Used about 3 103 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 391 · UN documents ≈ 2 712). Meaning: [health in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/health/).

- En 1995 également, selon le Ministère de la Santé **publique** de la Biélorussie, sur 500 enfants atteints de pathologies, 400 étaient malades de cancer.
  In 1995, according to the Belarussian **health** ministry, 400 out of 500 babies with pathologies had cancer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1593901)

- Espolea recommande l &apos; élaboration d &apos; une stratégie de lutte contre la toxicomanie en tant que problème de santé **publique**.
  80. Espolea recommended that a strategy should be designed for dealing with drug consumption as a **health** problem.
  ([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 27517456)

- - Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, la proposition dont nous débattons aujourd’hui compte la protection de la santé **publique** et de l’environnement parmi ses premiers objectifs.
  Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the proposal that we are discussing today numbers the protection of human **health** and the environment among its main objectives.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 739743)

## private

Used about 2 715 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 2 712). Meaning: [private in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/private/).

- Je ne peux pas rendre ces informations **publiques**. C'est personnel.
  I can't release that information. It's **private**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6873337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6873337) [\#12463725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12463725))

- En outre, l &apos; écart entre la rémunération de la fonction **publique** de référence et son propre point de référence dans le secteur privé est encore important.
  In addition, the gap between the comparator &apos; s own civil service pay scale and its reference point in the **private** sector was still wide.
  ([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 2642715)

- Je ne peux pas rendre ces informations **publiques**. C'est personnel.
  I cannot release that information. It is **private**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#681884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681884) [\#12463725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12463725))

## More sentences

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

- Ce n'est pas de notoriété **publique**.
  That isn't common knowledge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10006390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10006390) [\#11188644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11188644))

- Comment puis-je relier l'afficheur de dette **publique** à mon site web ?
  How can I embed the debt clock on my Web site?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2055638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2055638) [\#1040831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1040831))

- Il va à l'école **publique**.
  He attends state school.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10861805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10861805) [\#11838158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11838158))

## 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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