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# utilité — French to English

How French *utilité* 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: utilité (22 919), utilités (41). By style: everyday 39 · literary 1 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 368 · legal and administrative 1 075 · UN documents 20 472.

## utility

Used about 7 306 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 29 · legal and administrative ≈ 617 · UN documents ≈ 6 660). Forms: utilities, utility. Meaning: [utility in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/utility/).

- **Utilité** d'aller à la messe pour devenir révolutionnaire
  CHAPTER V—THE **UTILITY** OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13509)

- Certains membres commencent à éprouver des doutes quant à son **utilité**, car elle aboutit toujours à la même conclusion.
  There is a feeling that some Members are beginning to doubt its **utility** because it always produces the same result.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825783)

- Rapport poids/**utilité** (RPU)
  Weight/**utility** ratio (WUR)
  ([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 4182767)

- En outre, les dépenses au titre des **utilités** demeurent subventionnées.
  dministrative support. Moreover, the **utility** costs are subsidized.
  ([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 7413207)

- a) Rôles de l &apos; agriculture, des **utilités**, des secteurs manufacturier et minier et des services
  the roles of agriculture, **utilities**, manufacturing, mining and services
  ([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 14043601)

## usefulness

Used about 5 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 456 · legal and administrative ≈ 159 · UN documents ≈ 5 180). Forms: useful, usefulness.

- L'**utilité** d'un pot est dans son vide.
  The **usefulness** of a pot is in its emptiness.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10384440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10384440) [\#10384496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10384496))

- Ce que je conteste, c’est le réalisme et l’**utilité** des propositions.
  What I contest is the realism and **usefulness** of the proposals.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 527243)

- Description de la durée d’**utilité**, immobilisations corporelles
  Description of **useful** life, property, plant and equipment
  ([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 5306965)

- Quelle est l &apos; **utilité** pratique de la sécurité humaine?
  What is the practical **usefulness** of human security?
  ([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 21617739)

- Une langue internationale serait d'une énorme **utilité** pour l'humanité.
  An international language would be most **useful** for humanity.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#4259828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4259828) [\#3380338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3380338))

## value

Used about 1 949 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 143 · legal and administrative ≈ 80 · UN documents ≈ 1 727). Meaning: [value in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/value/).

- Toutes les institutions européennes doivent continuer à justifier leur **utilité**.
  All European institutions must continue to demonstrate their added **value**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 177751)

- Pour déterminer la valeur d’**utilité** de la participation, l’entité estime:
  In determining the **value** in use of the investment, an entity estimates:
  ([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 1793584)

- Cette décision vise à garantir l &apos; emploi judicieux de l &apos; équipement et à en maximiser l &apos; **utilité**.
  The objective of the decision is to put that equipment to good effect and to leverage its **value**.
  ([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 21686540)

- L'**utilité** et la valeur de la formation ne font l'objet d'aucun désaccord majeur.
  There is no great disagreement about the necessity and **value** of further education.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799934)

- lorsque la valeur recouvrable de l’unité (du groupe d’unités) est basée sur la valeur d’**utilité**:
  if the unit’s (group of units’) recoverable amount is based on **value** in use:
  ([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 2744493)

## costs

Used about 267 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 20 · UN documents ≈ 247).

- Toutefois, les informations communiquées par ces utilisateurs concernant l’effet des mesures et le poids de l’acide sulfanilique dans leurs coûts de production totaux étaient sans **utilité**.
  However, the information provided by these users regarding the effect of the measures and the proportion that sulphanilic acid represented in their manufacturing **costs** was not meaningful.
  ([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 1605142)

- f) Exhorter les pays à élaborer des mécanismes pour associer toutes les parties intéressées, en particulier le secteur privé, à la conservation des forêts, et notamment des mécanismes d’aide financière pour assurer un partage équitable des coûts et des **utilités**;
  (f) Urge countries to develop mechanisms to engage all interested parties, in particular the private sector, in forest conservation, including financial support mechanisms for equitable sharing of benefits and **costs**;
  ([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 6274305)

## More sentences

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

- Les essuie-glace ne sont d'aucune **utilité** contre la glace.
  Windscreen wipers are useless against ice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Erwan29200 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#749933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749933) [\#749928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749928))

- Je lui dit que, si je pouvais être d'une quelconque **utilité**, je serais ravi d'aider.
  I told her that if I could be of any use I would be glad to help.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · [\#25268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25268) [\#5667838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5667838))

- Je suis heureux de pouvoir être d'une certaine **utilité**.
  I'm glad I could be of some assistance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2430104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2430104) [\#3428230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3428230))

## Grammar

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