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# université — French to English

How French *université* 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: université (51 168), universités (20 420). By style: everyday 269 · literary 9 · parliamentary 1 972 · legal and administrative 1 318 · UN documents 68 020.

## university

Used about 65 681 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 188 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 910 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 222 · UN documents ≈ 62 352). Forms: universities, university. Meaning: [university in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/university/).

- Je vais à l'**université**.
  I go to **university**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jcgillet and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#3378098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3378098) [\#2047036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2047036))

- «Sur ma foi, monsieur le recteur de l'**Université** aurait bien dû en faire autant.
  “On my faith, the rector of the **university** ought to have done the same.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 557)

- Les **universités** et écoles sont fermées aux Russes.
  The **universities** and schools are closed to Russian.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 519371)

- **Université** de Tel Aviv (Israël)
  **University** of Tel Aviv (Israel)
  ([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 834853)

- UNU **Université** des Nations Unies
  UNU United Nations **University**
  ([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 29588582)

## higher

Used about 709 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 709). Meaning: [higher in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/higher/).

- En 2010, les **universités** du Ministère de l &apos; éducation ont mené à bien 735 (42 %) des 1766 projets des 39 programmes gouvernementaux de recherche fondamentale et appliquée.
  In 2010, the **higher** educational institutions of the Ministry of Education carried out 735 (42 per cent) of the 1,766 assignments under the 39 State programmes of fundamental and applied research.
  ([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 24446982)

## education

Used about 41 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 41). Meaning: [education in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/education/).

- des associations réunissant des professeurs d'**université**, d'autres enseignants de l'enseignement supérieur et des chercheurs se spécialisant dans l'intégration européenne,
  associations of professors, other teachers in higher **education**, and researchers specialising in European integration;
  ([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 872462)

- Bildung (Umschulungs-, Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen, Volksschulen) \[formation: centres de rééducation professionnelle, établissements dispensant des cours de formation, de perfectionnement et de recyclage, **universités** populaires\]
  Bildung (Umschulungs-, Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen, Volksschulen) \[**education**: training, further training and retraining establishments, adult evening classes\]
  ([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 235712)

- Bildung (Umschulungs-, Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen, Volksschulen) \[formation (centres de rééducation professionnelle, établissements dispensant des cours de formation, de perfectionnement et de recyclage, **universités** populaires)\]
  Bildung (Umschulungs-, Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen, Volksschulen) \[**education**: training, further training and retraining establishments, adult evening classes\]
  ([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 350311)

## schools

Used about 21 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 21).

- Il faut que davantage de personnes se rendent sur les lieux de travail, dans les **universités** et les écoles pour dire aux gens ce que fait le Parlement et pourquoi.
  We need more people to visit places of work, places of study and **schools** to tell people what Parliament does and why.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 980073)

## More sentences

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

- Elle vient de sortir de l'**université**, donc elle n'a pas d'expérience.
  She is fresh from college, so she has no experience.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#315681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/315681) [\#1281156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1281156))

- Trois mois avant que Tom ne soit diplômé de l'**université**, il est mort.
  Three months before Tom was to graduate from college, he died.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1027256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1027256) [\#8703675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8703675))

- Mon frère va à l'**université** de Kobe.
  My brother goes to college in Kobe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gamma and CN · checked, community translation · [\#237883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/237883) [\#446375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/446375))

## Grammar

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