certain — English to French

How English certain is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: certain in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: certain (234 943), certains (726). By style: everyday 320 · literary 93 · biblical 127 · parliamentary 22 871 · legal and administrative 74 875 · UN documents 137 383.

certaines

Used about 220 729 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 207 · literary ≈ 76 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 18 203 · legal and administrative ≈ 74 875 · UN documents ≈ 127 365). Forms: certain, certaine, certaines, certains.

• I'm not certain.

  Je n'en suis pas certaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2248129 #4841737

• He had a certain sensation of cold.

  Il sentit un certain froid.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12124

• He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

  Il dit encore cette parabole, en vue de certaines personnes se persuadant qu’elles étaient justes, et ne faisant aucun cas des autres:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:9

• However, certain proposals in the Pact are unworkable.

  Certaines propositions du pacte sont cependant irréalisables.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1530361

• concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature

  relatif au classement de certaines marchandises dans la nomenclature combinée

  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 2413974

More sentences

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

• I'm still not certain.

  Je ne suis toujours pas sûr.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3374783 #4856963

• Are you absolutely certain that that isn't going to happen?

  Es-tu absolument sûr que ça n'arrivera pas ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · #7222272 #8009079

• I'm now fairly certain.

  Je suis à présent assez sûr.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #3470561 #3471134

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