council — English to French

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

What it means: council in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: council (1 296 170), councils (15 842). By style: everyday 47 · literary 7 · biblical 31 · parliamentary 98 905 · legal and administrative 232 717 · UN documents 980 305.

conseil

Used about 1 123 949 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 32 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 83 451 · legal and administrative ≈ 213 324 · UN documents ≈ 827 132). Forms: conseil, conseils.

• The council agreed on it.

  Le conseil y a donné son accord.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2268076 #4949193

• He re-entered the council-chamber.

  Il rentra dans la chambre du conseil.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5920

• Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

  Alors Festus, après avoir délibéré avec le conseil, répondit: Tu en as appelé à César; tu iras devant César.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:12

• I would insist, where is the Council?

  J'insiste: où est le Conseil?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 923264

• THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

  LE CONSEIL DE 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 1172475

européen

Used about 2 061 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 061).

• It was the Council which increased that amount to 900 million ECU. That is the truth.

  Pour l'année en cours, la Commission et le Parlement européen se sont mis d'accord sur un chiffre: 600 millions d'écus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1609548

• To cap it all, she wants more money transferred from the national Refugee Councils to their EU equivalent.

  Elle souhaite, de surcroît, que les pouvoirs nationaux transfèrent davantage de moyens financiers au Fonds européen pour les réfugiés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 33852

More sentences

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

• You should run for city council.

  Tu devrais te présenter aux élections municipales.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #4834911 #12037860

• Tom plans to run for city council.

  Tom a l'intention de se présenter aux élections municipales.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #9373813 #12037864

• Tom is going to run for city council.

  Tom va se présenter aux élections municipales.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #9384447 #12037867

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