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# spécial — French to English

How French *spécial* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: spécial (361 655), spéciale (203 474), spéciales (97 618), spécials (4), spéciaux (61 696). By style: everyday 133 · literary 11 · parliamentary 5 354 · legal and administrative 19 229 · UN documents 699 720.

## special

Used about 546 817 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 124 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 4 768 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 126 · UN documents ≈ 524 790). Meaning: [special in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/special/).

- Celui-ci est **spécial**.
  This one is **special**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2892277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2892277) [\#7063818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7063818))

- J'ai une permission **spéciale**.
  I have **special** permission.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13708)

- Rapports **spéciaux** de la Cour des comptes
  **Special** reports of the Court of Auditors
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 139841)

- Droits exclusifs ou **spéciaux**
  Exclusive or **special** rights
  ([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 3886147)

- Article 4 : Mesures temporaires **spéciales**
  Article 4: **Special** interim measures
  ([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 15127038)

## rapporteur

Used about 14 280 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 14 280).

- Le Rapporteur **spécialS** remercie le Gouvernment de sa réponse.
  Le **Rapporteur** spécialS remercie le Gouvernment de sa réponse.
  ([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 13838058)

- Allégation envoyée avec le Rapporteur **spécialS** sur la torture, 6 avr-il 2004.
  Allégation envoyée avec le **Rapporteur** spécialS sur la torture, 6 avr-il 2004.
  ([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 13838343)

- Allégation envoyée avec le Rapporteur **spécialS** sur la Ttorture, 27 Mai y-2004.
  Allégation envoyée avec le **Rapporteur** spécialS sur la Ttorture, 27 Mai y-2004.
  ([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 13838911)

- Allégation envoyée avec le Rapporteur **spécialS** sur la Ttorture et la Rapproteuse Sspéciale sur la violence contre les femmes, ses causes et ses conséquences, 8 juillet -2004.
  Allégation envoyée avec le **Rapporteur** spécialS sur la Ttorture et la Rapproteuse Sspéciale sur la violence contre les femmes, ses causes et ses conséquences, 8 juillet -2004.
  ([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 13838075)

## More sentences

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

- « Quoi de neuf ? » « Rien de **spécial**. »
  "What's new?" "Nothing much."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8972115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8972115) [\#7681066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7681066))

- « Quoi de neuf ? » « Rien de **spécial**. »
  "What's happening?" "Not much."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8973405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8973405) [\#7681066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7681066))

- « Quoi de neuf ? » « Rien de **spécial**. »
  "What's happening?" "Nothing much."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8972116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8972116) [\#7681066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7681066))

## 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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