authority — English to French

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

What it means: authority in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: authorities (361 292), authority (265 339). By style: everyday 89 · literary 19 · biblical 73 · parliamentary 24 315 · legal and administrative 184 896 · UN documents 417 239.

autorité

Used about 442 877 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 75 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 41 · parliamentary ≈ 19 249 · legal and administrative ≈ 171 414 · UN documents ≈ 252 082). Forms: autorité, autorités.

• Tom has no authority.

  Tom n'a pas d'autorité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · #1488693 #1692905

• His authority was great.

  Son autorité était grande.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25709

• for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.

  car il enseignait comme ayant autorité, et non pas comme leurs scribes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 7:29

• 2008 discharge: European GNSS Supervisory Authority

  Décharge 2008: Autorité de surveillance du GNSS européen

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377093

• APPENDIX II COMPETENT AUTHORITIES

  APPENDICE II AUTORITÉS COMPÉTENTES

  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 214423

pouvoir

Used about 22 259 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 507 · UN documents ≈ 21 731).

• That's an abuse of authority.

  C'est un abus de pouvoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · #4529754 #4534354

• and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:

  et pour les envoyer prêcher avec le pouvoir de chasser les démons.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 3:15

• The Algerian authorities, as well as the European Union, must listen to these aspirations.

  Le pouvoir algérien doit entendre ces aspirations, l'Union européenne aussi.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 333544

• Administrative authority is in the hands of the multi-ethnic people; all ethnic groups are equal before the law.

  Le pouvoir administratif est entre les mains du peuple pluriethnique; tous les groupes ethniques sont égaux devant la loi.

  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 10000040

• Authority corrupts its holder and debases its victims.

  Le pouvoir corrompt son détenteur et avilit ses victimes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5298309 #10100828

compétentes

Used about 4 346 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 346).

• Judicial or administrative authorities with jurisdiction in matters covered in the Convention

  Instances judiciaires ou administratives compétentes en ce qui concerne les questions traitées dans la Convention

  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 22434678

More sentences

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

• Tom overstepped his authority.

  Tom a outrepassé ses pouvoirs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #5374961 #5375288

• I have it on good authority that the president will not seek reelection.

  Je sais de source sûre que le président ne va pas chercher à se faire réélire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1776836 #1800926

• He's a leading authority in his field.

  C'est une sommité dans son domaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1475996 #1476794

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