colonial — English to French

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

What it means: colonial in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: colonial (23 165), colonials (6). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 513 · legal and administrative 2 · UN documents 22 649.

coloniale

Used about 18 332 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 17 948). Forms: colonial, coloniale, coloniales, coloniaux.

• In the 15th century, Portugal was a major colonial power.

  Au XVe siècle, le Portugal était une grande puissance coloniale.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · #11477828 #964515

• This is known as the 'colonial reflex'.

  C'est ce qu'on appelle le "réflexe colonial".

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1513339

• Colonial scleractinians on rocky outcrops

  Scléractiniaires coloniaux sur affleurements rocheux

  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 4116176

• to Colonial Countries and Peoples

  aux pays et aux peuples coloniaux

  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 28466352

• In the 15th century, Portugal was a great colonial power.

  Au XVe siècle, le Portugal était une grande puissance coloniale.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ_Saidez and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · #9584798 #964515

octroi

Used about 1 282 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 282).

• Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries

  sur l ' octroi de l ' indépendance aux pays

  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 11604446

• Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations

  Application de la Déclaration sur l ' octroi de l ' indépendance aux pays

  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 8035851

More sentences

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

• He wrote the article "Artificial Intelligence in Martian Colonial Life Support Systems."

  Il a écrit l'article : « L'intelligence artificielle dans les systèmes de support de vie dans les colonies martiennes. »

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #1469340 #10466134

• For two centuries, in the colonial era, we exploited or destroyed it.

  Pendant deux siècles, nous l'avons exploitée ou détruite, à l'époque des colonies.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1763039

• An ex-British colony, Burma has suffered a traumatic post-colonial period, which has been fertile ground for the firm establishment of a military junta.

  Ancienne colonie britannique, ce pays a souffert d'une période postcoloniale, terrain propice à l'instauration d'une junte militaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 962959

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