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# universel — French to English

How French *universel* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: universel (42 568), universele (3), universels (7 851). By style: everyday 16 · literary 6 · parliamentary 1 754 · legal and administrative 1 899 · UN documents 46 747.

## universal

Used about 42 948 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 644 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 622 · UN documents ≈ 39 664). Meaning: [universal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/universal/).

- Amenez un adaptateur **universel**.
  Get a **universal** adapter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11958888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958888) [\#11958914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958914))

- Cet individu comptait à lui seul plus que le groupe **universel**.
  This individual alone counted for more than a **universal** group.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7171)

- C’est un principe de droit **universel**.
  This is a **universal** principle of law.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 747658)

- **universels** et pour essais de traction
  **Universal** or for tensile tests
  ([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 4699625)

- Les droits de l &apos; homme sont **universels**.
  Human rights are **universal**.
  ([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 21878163)

## More sentences

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

- Le CouchSurfing c'est comme parler espéranto, c'est la réalisation d'un rêve : le village **universel**.
  CouchSurfing is like speaking Esperanto, it's a dream coming true: the global village.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#1031512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1031512) [\#1031511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1031511))

- Un esprit **universel** est quelqu'un qui en connaît un paquet sur un paquet de trucs.
  A polymath is someone who knows a whole lot about a whole lot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1463262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1463262) [\#1464835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1464835))

- La mort est le remède **universel** de la nature.
  Death is Nature's remedy for all things.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1937197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1937197) [\#1942172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1942172))

## 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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