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# règles — French to English

How French *règles* 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: règles (222 310). By style: everyday 382 · literary 2 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 20 080 · legal and administrative 60 123 · UN documents 141 720.

## rules

Used about 186 020 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 334 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 17 570 · legal and administrative ≈ 58 870 · UN documents ≈ 109 243).

- Je décide des **règles**.
  I make the **rules**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2380462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2380462) [\#6937018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6937018))

- --Il y a des gens qui observent les **règles** de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.
  “There are people who observe the **rules** of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27021)

- et l’athlète n’est pas couronné, s’il n’a combattu suivant les **règles**.
  Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the **rules**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 2:5)

- Il concerne les **règles** de garantie qu'il faut respecter.
  It concerns the guarantee **rules** that must be complied with.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 965951)

- **Règles** concernant les mouvements des animaux
  **Rules** on movements of animals
  ([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 1378272)

## regulations

Used about 9 284 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 418 · UN documents ≈ 8 858).

- L'expérience du cyberharcèlement a motivé Rodrigo à plaider en faveur de **règles** et une éducation plus strictes pour combattre le cyberharcèlement.
  The online bullying experience motivated Rodrigo to advocate for stricter **regulations** and education to combat cyberbullying.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11783371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11783371) [\#13325692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13325692))

- Nous aurions préféré l'instauration d'un contingent «commerce équitable», mais un tel contingent n'est pas conforme aux **règles** actuelles fixées par l'OMC.
  We would have preferred to see a special fair trade quota being set up, but that would fly in the face of current WTO **regulations**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1858880)

- b) **Règles** particulières de circulation
  (b) Special traffic **regulations**
  ([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 19127214)

- Ces **règles** s &apos; appliquent à tous ceux dont les véhicules font partie de cette circulation.
  The **Regulations** are intended for all road-users.
  ([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 4334922)

- 48. Le projet de loi établit également des **règles** concernant la langue des signes, indispensable pour assurer l &apos; accessibilité des personnes handicapées.
  48. The Bill also contains **regulations** for sign language use, which is essential to accessibility for persons with disabilities.
  ([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 24375043)

## applicable

Used about 2 953 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 953). Meaning: [applicable in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/applicable/).

- Il a mentionné la proposition faite par le Gouvernement suédois de réintituler l &apos; instrument envisagé &quot; **Règles** humanitaires applicables dans toutes les situations &quot; .
  He referred to the proposal by the Government of Sweden to rename the instrument “Humanitarian Standards **applicable** in all situations”.
  ([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 4004370)

## 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 toi qui **règles**.
  You're the one taking care of the bill.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13307576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13307576) [\#13307559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13307559))

- C'est toi qui **règles**.
  You're the one covering the bill.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13307580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13307580) [\#13307559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13307559))

- Je ne dispose peut-être pas de beaucoup d'argent mais, au moins, je vis selon mes propres **règles**.
  I may not have a lot of money, but at least I live on my own terms.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1203269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1203269) [\#1203329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1203329))

## Grammar

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