british — English to French

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

What it means: british in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: british (25 665). By style: everyday 84 · parliamentary 6 251 · legal and administrative 861 · UN documents 18 469.

britannique

Used about 17 704 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 72 · parliamentary ≈ 5 730 · legal and administrative ≈ 359 · UN documents ≈ 11 543). Forms: britannique, britanniques.

• Tom is a British citizen.

  Tom est un citoyen britannique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Morkus · checked, community translation · #5046465 #6018353

• Finally a comment on the British Presidency.

  En guise de conclusion, une chose encore sur la présidence britannique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862134

• British Indian Ocean Territory,

  Territoire britannique de l'océan Indien,

  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 193272

• 40. In 1651, Suriname was a colony of the British.

  40. En 1651, le Suriname était une colonie britannique.

  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 1228413

• He's got some very British phlegm.

  Il a un flegme très britannique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · #873412 #873414

british

Used about 5 468 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 466 · UN documents ≈ 5 002).

• British Nuclear Fuels plc - BNFL

  British Nuclear Fuels plc — BNFL

  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 559856

• British Nuclear Fuels Limited

  British Nuclear Fuels Limited

  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 14145316

• British pendulum number (BPN) method

  Méthode de la valeur BPN (British Pendulum Number)

  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 5494495

• British Standards Institution (BSI)

  British Standards Institution (BSI)

  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 15786322

• Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'Club 204-217.

  Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 204-217.

  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 988477

uni

Used about 1 415 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 260 · UN documents ≈ 1 154).

• In the UK, the British Jubilee Debt campaign are trying to mobilise politicians to support this.

  Au Royaume-Uni, la campagne tente de rallier les hommes politiques à cette cause.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 523395

• (l) Small piece of pottery found near British Embassy, 1973;

  l) Petite poterie découverte près de l ' ambassade du Royaume-Uni (1973);

  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 11026388

• Responsibility must first be laid overwhelmingly at the door of the Conservative British Governments of Mrs Thatcher and Mr Major.

  La responsabilité revient d'abord de façon écrasante aux gouvernements conservateurs du Royaume-Uni de Mme Thatcher et de M. Major.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1682248

• In January 2013, the British Ambassador in Madrid (accredited to Andorra) raised the issue.

  En janvier 2013, l ' Ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni en Espagne (avec accréditation en Andorre) a soulevé la question.

  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 27570283

• (Ms. Anderson, Ireland) We of course associate ourselves with the European Union statement earlier reported by the British Ambassador.

  Naturellement, nous faisons nôtre la déclaration qui a été faite précédemment par l ' ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni au nom de l ' Union européenne.

  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 4847110

More sentences

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

• This is an instance of modern British life.

  Voilà un exemple de la vie anglaise moderne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and gasche · checked, community translation · #55805 #427396

• This shows that English isn't just for the British anymore.

  Cela montre que l'anglais n'est plus maintenant la langue des seuls habitants de l'Angleterre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeanne and mkacfr · checked, community translation · #460257 #12658

• The British have a lot of respect for law and order.

  Les Anglais respectent beaucoup la loi et l'ordre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · #26131 #2307175

Grammar

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