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# spéciaux — French to English

How French *spéciaux* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: spéciaux (61 696). By style: everyday 12 · literary 1 · parliamentary 814 · legal and administrative 3 497 · UN documents 57 372.

## special

Used about 43 317 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 729 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 133 · UN documents ≈ 39 443). Meaning: [special in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/special/).

- Vous êtes **spéciaux**.
  You guys are **special**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12992706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12992706) [\#9464176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9464176))

- 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)

- (À compléter par le Groupe des services **spéciaux**)
  (To be completed by the **Special** Services Unit)
  ([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 20388389)

- Cette fille a des pouvoirs **spéciaux**.
  This girl has **special** powers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4029297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4029297) [\#4029988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4029988))

## rapporteurs

Used about 11 953 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 11 953).

- III. ACTION MENÉE PAR LES RAPPORTEURS **SPÉCIAUX** THÉMATIQUES
  III. ACTIVITIES OF THE THEMATIC SPECIAL **RAPPORTEURS** AND
  ([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 6350489)

- c) Situations relatives aux droits de l &apos; homme et rapports des rapporteurs et représentants **spéciaux** (suite) (A/C.3/69/L.32)
  (c) Human rights situations and reports of special **rapporteurs** and representatives (continued) (A/C.3/69/L.32)
  ([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 29080531)

- c) Situations relatives aux droits de l &apos; homme et rapports des rapporteurs et représentants **spéciaux** (suite) (A/C.3/69/L.33)
  (c) Human rights situations and reports of special **rapporteurs** and representatives (continued) (A/C.3/69/L.33)
  ([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 29079345)

- A l &apos; heure où ils mettent la dernière main au présent rapport, les rapporteurs **spéciaux** n &apos; ont reçu aucune réponse directe à cette lettre.
  At the time the present report had been finalized, the Special **Rapporteurs** had received no direct reply to this letter.
  ([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 3999702)

- c) Situations relatives aux droits de l &apos; homme et rapports des rapporteurs et représentants **spéciaux** : rapport de la Troisième Commission (A/66/462/Add.3)
  (c) Human rights situations and reports of special **rapporteurs** and representatives: report of the Third Committee (A/66/462/Add.3)
  ([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 24987813)

## equipment

Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17). Meaning: [equipment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/equipment/).

- Je sais que la majorité des États membres proposent des réductions des redevances de raccordement ou la fourniture gratuite d'équipements **spéciaux**.
  Another has so far failed to put forward any proposals. I am aware that reduced connection charges and free specially adapted **equipment** are available in many Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1948129)

## programmes

Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17).

- La Commission européenne devrait prévoir des plans **spéciaux** pour les médias, pour les organisations non gouvernementales, pour les universités et pour les instituts de recherche en Afrique.
  The European Commission should plan specialised **programmes** for the media, for non-governmental organisations, for universities and for research institutes in Africa.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 726554)

## More sentences

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

- Les bernardines-bénédictines de cette obédience font maigre toute l'année, jeûnent le carême et beaucoup d'autres jours qui leur sont **spéciaux**, se relèvent dans leur premier sommeil depuis une heure du matin jusqu'à trois pour lire le bréviaire et chanter matines, couchent dans des draps de serge en toute saison et sur la paille, n'usent point de bains, n'allument jamais de feu, se donnent la discipline tous les vendredis, observent la règle du silence, ne se parlent qu'aux récréations, lesquelles sont très courtes, et portent des chemises de bure pendant six mois, du 14 septembre, qui est l'exaltation de la sainte-croix, jusqu'à Pâques.
  The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o’clock in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10382)

- Chaque présidence a apporté sa précieuse contribution, mais la présidence finlandaise mérite des remerciements **spéciaux**.
  Each Presidency's input was valuable but particular thanks are due to the Finnish Presidency.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 886711)

- Nous devrions être consultés dans le cadre de la nomination des ambassadeurs et des représentants **spéciaux**.
  We should be involved in the nominations of ambassadors and EUSRs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1335301)

## Grammar

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