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# unités — French to English

How French *unités* 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: unités (62 086). By style: everyday 8 · parliamentary 746 · legal and administrative 13 207 · UN documents 48 125.

## units

Used about 52 696 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 575 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 006 · UN documents ≈ 41 107). Forms: unit, units.

- La boîte contient 20 **unités**.
  The box contains 20 **units**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by THURET and marcelostockle · checked, community translation · [\#1334905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1334905) [\#3660041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3660041))

- **Unités** de mesure (vote)
  **Units** of measurement (vote)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1002910)

- Nombre d’**unités** d’activité économique
  Number of kind of activity **units**
  ([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 1510169)

- de collaboration concernant ces **unités** 33
  arrangements for the regional coordination **units** 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 14018409)

- Le gramme et le kilo sont des **unités** de poids.
  The gram and the kilo are **units** of weight.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11541504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541504) [\#11541506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541506))

## police

Used about 2 005 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 005). Meaning: [police in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/police/).

- ou des **unités** de police constituées
  Troop/formed **police**-contributing country
  ([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 17930719)

- Tous les pays fournissant des contingents et des **unités** de police ont pris leur engagement très au sérieux, de même que les donateurs, qui ont promis des sommes importantes.
  All troop- and **police**-contributing countries have demonstrated serious commitment, along with donors that pledged substantial amounts.
  ([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 30150799)

## More sentences

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

- Des études récentes montrent que l'acceptation du système européen de transfert d'**unités** de cours capitalisables est désormais totale et que les étudiants roumains suivent déjà le nouveau système.
  Recent surveys show that the acceptance of the European credit transfer system (ECTS) is now complete, and students in Romania are already following the new system.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1042598)

- J'ai été élu à ce Parlement en 1994 lorsque le rapport Delors faisait fureur, et notre objectif était de réduire le chômage de 15 millions d'**unités** pour l'an 2000.
  I was elected to this Parliament in 1994 when the Delors report was all the rage and we had a quest to reduce unemployment by 15 million by the year 2000.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1835427)

- Les opérateurs de ces micro-**unités** ont la possibilité, s’ils le souhaitent, d’utiliser des valeurs certifiées pour effectuer leur calcul, de manière � réduire leur charges administratives.
  Micro-cogeneration operators may use certified values for calculation purposes, thus reducing their administrative burden.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 539785)

## Grammar

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