alternative — English to French

How English alternative is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: alternative in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: alternative (76 467), alternatives (22 246). By style: everyday 81 · literary 2 · parliamentary 5 957 · legal and administrative 10 648 · UN documents 82 025.

remplacement

Used about 22 516 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 886 · UN documents ≈ 20 506).

• The correction mechanism will hopefully also be an alternative to the British rebate.

  Espérons que le mécanisme de correction constituera aussi une solution de remplacement au rabais britannique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 689469

• Alternatives to mercury and mercury compounds;

  Les solutions de remplacement du mercure et des composés du mercure;

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 4174870

• (ii) Alternatives to mercury;

  ii) Les solutions de remplacement du mercure;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25189894

• The only alternative to peace is peace, but to make this possible Europe must take practical action.

  La seule solution de remplacement de la paix est la paix, mais pour que cela soit possible, il faut que l'Europe s'y mette.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 499743

• Alternatives for the remaining applications are still not available.

  Pour les autres applications, on ne dispose pas encore de solutions de remplacement.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 4230955

alternatives

Used about 16 807 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 599 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 771 · UN documents ≈ 9 399). Forms: alternative, alternatives.

• There is an alternative.

  Il y a une alternative.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adrien_FR · checked, community translation · #4494338 #11612538

• He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious balance of light and darkness.

  Il pesa, il songea, il considéra les alternatives de la mystérieuse balance de lumière et d'ombre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30101

• But there are alternative solutions.

  Or, il existe des solutions alternatives.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732194

• Alternative Energy (AE) Solar Co. Ltd

  Alternative Energy (AE) Solar Co., Ltd

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 3043692

• Institute for African Alternatives (1989)

  Institute for African Alternatives (1989)

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15365593

solutions

Used about 7 851 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 683 · legal and administrative ≈ 333 · UN documents ≈ 6 835).

• You said that all alternatives are open?

  Vous avez dit que toutes les solutions devaient rester ouvertes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 317582

• the use of technically feasible and safe alternatives would entail disproportionate costs.

  le recours à des solutions de substitution techniquement possibles et sûres entraînerait des coûts disproportionnés.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 3318496

• Alternatives (products and processes):

  Autres solutions (produits et procédés):

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21507655

• The alternatives are quite clearly set out in the Gallagher report.

  Le rapport Gallagher nous présente très clairement les autres solutions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1961060

• the main alternatives to the proposed technology, techniques and measures studied by the applicant in outline.

  les principales solutions de substitution, étudiées par l’auteur de la demande d’autorisation pour remplacer la technologie proposée, sous la forme d’un résumé.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 2055497

More sentences

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

• Is there no alternative to what you propose?

  N'y a-t-il pas d'autre choix que ce que vous proposez ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #16982 #474209

• Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.

  Savez-vous comment on appelle une médecine parallèle qui fonctionne ? La médecine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2160780 #2161485

• I have no alternative.

  Je n'ai pas d'autre choix.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · #4499875 #10298740

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