citizen — English to French

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

What it means: citizen in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: citizen (27 838), citizens (141 603). By style: everyday 117 · literary 18 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 43 126 · legal and administrative 6 390 · UN documents 119 784.

citoyen

Used about 118 116 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 36 388 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 260 · UN documents ≈ 77 361). Forms: citoyen, citoyens.

• I am a Roman citizen.

  Je suis citoyen romain.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jerom and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #432966 #1188514

• “Welcome, citizen.”

  --Citoyen, soyez le bienvenu.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25759

• But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

  Je suis Juif, reprit Paul, de Tarse en Cilicie, citoyen d’une ville qui n’est pas sans importance. Permets-moi, je te prie, de parler au peuple.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 21:39

• No European citizen voted for this man.

  Aucun citoyen européen n'a voté pour cet homme.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1580097

• The citizen in the European Union

  Les citoyens dans l'Union européenne

  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 866391

ressortissant

Used about 6 190 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 198 · UN documents ≈ 4 991).

• Are you a non-citizen?

  Es-tu non-ressortissant ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6896742 #6997009

• Family relationship with an EU, EEA or CH citizen

  Lien de parenté avec un ressortissant de l’Union européenne, de l’EEE ou de la Confédération suisse

  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 1890245

• Mounir Mabrouk Bashir, a 34-year-old citizen of Tunisia, was arrested in July 2005 and convicted to 15 years ' imprisonment in August 2006.

  16. M. Mounir Mabrouk Bashir, ressortissant tunisien âgé de 34 ans, a été arrêté en juillet 2005 et condamné à quinze ans de prison en août 2006.

  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 27537123

• A mediator shall not be a citizen of either Party, unless the Parties agree otherwise.

  Le médiateur n'est pas un ressortissant de l'une des parties, sauf convention contraire des parties.

  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 168832

• On 18 April 1997, the Court of Appeal/City Court rejected the appeal on the same ground that the author was a foreign citizen.

  Le 18 avril 1997, la cour d ' appel (tribunal municipal) a rejeté le recours pour le même motif, c ' est-à-dire que l ' auteur était un ressortissant étranger.

  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 18120193

droit

Used about 3 743 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 743).

• Every citizen has the right to address the media and to express opinions and convictions openly.

  Toute personne a le droit de s ' exprimer dans les médias et de faire connaître sa pensée et ses opinions.

  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 27670037

• National priority or target: To strengthen the rule of law, expand the exercise of democracy and improve security for the citizens.

  Priorité/ objectif national : Renforcement de l ' état de droit, accroissement de l ' exercice de la démocratie et amélioration de la sécurité publique

  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 15311007

• 154. The Emigration Act grants the right to apply for an emigration passport exclusively to citizens of Georgia who have reached their majority (art. 7).

  154. La loi sur l ' émigration reconnaît le droit de demander un permis d ' émigration aux seuls ressortissants géorgiens majeurs (art. 7).

  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 4931054

More sentences

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

• She is a British citizen, though she was born in France.

  Elle est citoyenne britannique, bien qu'elle soit née en France.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10605005 #10612494

• Zira is a Kabyle citizen.

  Zira est une citoyenne kabyle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rafik · checked, community translation · #10030187 #9110579

• She's a law-abiding citizen.

  C'est une citoyenne respectueuse des lois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1768710 #1778083

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