character — English to French

How English character is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: character in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: character (25 781), characters (4 014). By style: everyday 121 · literary 14 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 071 · legal and administrative 4 703 · UN documents 23 885.

caractère

Used about 20 491 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 379 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 870 · UN documents ≈ 16 172). Forms: caractère, caractères.

• He is a man of character.

  C’est un homme de caractère.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · #300124 #132710

• The Professor mused a few moments over this series of characters; then raising his spectacles he pronounced:

  Le professeur considéra pendant quelques instants cette série de caractères; puis il dit en relevant ses lunettes:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 112

• These issues also illustrate the nature and character of the environmental problems.

  Ces questions illustrent aussi la nature et le caractère des problèmes d'environnement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 187263

• Up to 3 numeric characters.

  Jusqu'à 3 caractères numériques.

  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 4918280

• Cross-cutting and multidisciplinary characters

  Caractère intersectoriel et multidisciplinaire

  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 8206337

gras

Used about 1 493 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 493).

• Table 1.2, amend to read: (amended text in bold characters)

  Tableau 1.2, lire: (texte modifié en gras)

  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 20932772

• The modifications to the existing text of the Regulation are marked in bold characters.

  Les modifications apportées au texte actuel du Règlement apparaissent en gras.

  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 14432828

• The modifications to the current text of the Regulation are marked in bold characters.

  Les modifications apportées au texte actuel du Règlement sont indiquées en caractère gras.

  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 15598123

• The modifications to the current text of the Regulation are marked in bold characters.

  Les modifications qu ' il est proposé d ' apporter au texte actuel du Règlement apparaissent en caractère gras.

  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 19186505

• The modifications to the existing text of the Regulations are marked in bold characters. A.1.

  Les modifications qu ' il est proposé d ' apporter au texte existant du Règlement sont indiquées en caractère gras.

  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 22829011

More sentences

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

• The actor made his character sound like an idiot to make people laugh.

  Le comédien bêtifie son personnage pour faire rire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Igider · checked, community translation · #13808017 #12752824

• He is an understudy for that character.

  Il est la doublure de ce personnage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by XY and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8273210 #9704443

• To think one is a character is very common in France.

  Se croire un personnage est fort commun en France.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · #1366412 #920908

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