competent — English to French

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

What it means: competent in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: competent (130 915). By style: everyday 18 · parliamentary 2 106 · legal and administrative 65 269 · UN documents 63 522.

compétent

Used about 121 268 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 1 799 · legal and administrative ≈ 62 549 · UN documents ≈ 56 905). Forms: compétent, compétente, compétentes.

• I am very competent.

  Je suis très compétent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5323436 #5558966

• We are the most competent people for the job.

  Nous sommes les personnes les plus compétentes pour ce job.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318323

• Name of competent authority:

  Nom de l'autorité compétente:

  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 3926969

• C Moor the vessel and inform the competent authority

  C Amarrer le bateau et informer l ' autorité compétente

  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 20904314

• I think he's competent.

  Je crois qu'il est compétent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #1318823 #1327403

autorité

Used about 2 647 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 647). Forms: autorité, autorités.

• (c) whenever required by the competent authority.

  c) chaque fois que cette autorité le requiert.

  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 11216896

• Hence, the competent public bodies (district registration authorities) decided to reject the lists of candidates.

  Par conséquent, les organes publics compétents (les autorités d ' enregistrement des districts) ont décidé de rejeter les listes des candidats.

  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 15051750

More sentences

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

• I hope you're competent.

  J'espère que vous savez ce que vous faites.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and traeton · checked, community translation · #9302590 #10409048

• The new waiter should be much more competent.

  Le nouveau serveur devrait être beaucoup plus performant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sysko · checked, community translation · #838769 #380121

• He is as competent as he is presentable.

  Il est aussi bon que beau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #13362968 #11507686

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