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# souveraineté — French to English

How French *souveraineté* 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: souveraineté (39 679), souverainetés (178). By style: everyday 6 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 572 · legal and administrative 1 618 · UN documents 35 654.

## sovereignty

Used about 36 870 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 2 355 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 449 · UN documents ≈ 33 054). Forms: sovereignties, sovereignty. Meaning: [sovereignty in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sovereignty/).

- La **souveraineté** réside dans le peuple.
  **Sovereignty** resides in the people.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#265851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265851) [\#12453051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12453051))

- Les droits de l'Homme, la **souveraineté** du peuple, sapristi!
  The Rights of Man, the **sovereignty** of the people, sapristi!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18645)

- Nous ne renoncerons pas à la **souveraineté** de notre droit national.
  We shall not surrender the **sovereignty** of our national law.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 598071)

- est susceptible de porter atteinte à sa **souveraineté**;
  be likely to prejudice its **sovereignty**;
  ([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 323632)

- a) **Souveraineté** et autorité nationales
  (a) National **sovereignty** and country leadership
  ([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 2927140)

## jurisdiction

Used about 506 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 135 · UN documents ≈ 371). Meaning: [jurisdiction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/jurisdiction/).

- À l'exception des eaux relevant de la **souveraineté** nationale (ZEE).
  Excluding waters subject to national **jurisdiction** (EEZs).
  ([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 4249119)

- Pour entreprendre de codifier la question, il faut d &apos; abord résoudre le problème de la portée de la codification, comme l &apos; exprime bien le titre du sujet; en effet, selon l &apos; Uruguay, ce titre devrait être &lt; &lt; Ressources naturelles transfrontières &gt; &gt; , au sens que les ressources considérées s &apos; étendent au-delà des territoires soumis à des **souverainetés** différentes, ce qui exige la formulation de normes et de principes internationaux.
  73. The problem of scope must be resolved before codification of the topic could begin, as seen from the title of the topic: her delegation believed that the title should be &quot; transboundary natural resources &quot; since such resources extended across territories under the **jurisdiction** of more than one State and therefore required the formulation of international principles and norms.
  ([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 11679467)

- VI, VII et VIII (eaux communautaires et eaux ne relevant pas de la **souveraineté** ou de la juridiction des pays tiers)
  VI, VII and VIII (Community waters and waters not under the sovereignity and **jurisdiction** of third countries)
  ([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 1557103)

## respect

Used about 371 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 371). Meaning: [respect in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/respect/).

- Il faut absolument bâtir un monde débarrassé de l &apos; impérialisme et du colonialisme, un monde où les relations doivent être axées sur la complémentarité et le respect des **souverainetés** et des identités diverses, et il faut tenir compte des asymétries profondes qui existent de famille à famille, de pays à pays et de continent à continent.
  It is essential to build a world free of imperialism and colonialism, where relations must be aimed at complementarity, the **respect** for diverse sovereign entities and identities and where the deep asymmetries that exist between one family and another, one country and another and one continent and another are taken into account.
  ([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 18273906)

## More sentences

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

- Puis il dit à la marée montante : « Il vous appartient de vous soumettre à moi, car les terres sur lesquelles je trône m'appartiennent et personne n'a résisté impunément à ma **souveraineté**. Par conséquent, je vous ordonne de ne pas avancer sur mes terres et de ne pas oser mouiller les vêtements ou les membres de votre maître. »
  Then he said to the rising tide, “You are subject to me, as the land on which I am sitting is mine, and no one has resisted my overlordship with impunity. I command you, therefore, not to rise on to my land, nor to presume to wet the clothing or limbs of your master.”
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#8097899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8097899) [\#8986321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8986321))

- Alors Jézabel, sa femme, lui dit: Est-ce bien toi maintenant qui exerces la **souveraineté** sur Israël? Lève-toi, prends de la nourriture, et que ton cœur se réjouisse; moi, je te donnerai la vigne de Naboth de Jizreel.
  Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 21:7)

- Le marché intérieur réside au cœur de l'Union européenne et le droit fiscal est l'un des principaux atouts de la **souveraineté** nationale.
  The internal market is at the heart of the EU, and the right of taxation is one of the sovereign state's most important assets.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 934812)

## Grammar

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