essential — English to French

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

What it means: essential in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: essential (134 907), essentials (656). By style: everyday 69 · literary 2 · parliamentary 16 240 · legal and administrative 13 991 · UN documents 105 261.

essentiel

Used about 67 036 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 11 334 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 699 · UN documents ≈ 44 955). Forms: essentiel, essentielle, essentielles, essentiels.

• Salt is essential to life.

  Le sel est essentiel à la vie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #9867657 #9867660

• You know the essential points.

  L'essentiel, vous le savez.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30339

• So much for the essentials.

  Voilà pour l'essentiel.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1880572

• Essential oil of cinnamomum zeylanicum

  Huile essentielle de Cinnamomum zeylanicum

  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 1326283

• Remedying such inequities is essential.

  Il est essentiel de remédier à de telles inégalités.

  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 22891393

indispensable

Used about 11 303 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 015 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 9 868).

• An adapter is essential.

  Un adaptateur est indispensable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11958891 #11958916

• A compulsory notification procedure is essential in order to guarantee minimum levels of official control.

  La notification obligatoire des produits est indispensable pour garantir un contrôle minimum des autorités compétentes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 155541

• It is essential for the Commission to have the necessary information at its disposal before the adoption of technical provisions.

  Il est indispensable que la Commission dispose des informations nécessaires avant l'adoption de dispositions techniques.

  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 3556707

• A more transparent process for the appointment of member States to the Board is essential.

  Il est indispensable que le processus de nomination des États membres du Conseil des Gouverneurs soit plus transparent.

  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 1660183

• Water is essential to life.

  L'eau est indispensable à la vie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #270818 #180686

éléments

Used about 375 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 206).

• Our President-in-Office, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, without a backward glance at the voters of France and Holland, is determined to bring it back in all its essentials.

  Notre présidente en exercice, la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, sans se soucier des électeurs français et néerlandais, est déterminée à en ramener les principaux éléments à la vie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 914862

• These advanced training programmes will include topics on the principles and essentials of stockpile management; risk management; ammunition accounting; transport; and security and destruction.

  Ces programmes de formation avancée comprendront des éléments consacrés aux principes et notions fondamentales de la gestion des stocks; la gestion des risques; la comptabilité des munitions; les transports; ainsi que la sécurité et la destruction des stocks.

  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 2267445

More sentences

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

• The sun is essential to life.

  Le soleil est très important pour la vie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #275140 #5571061

• Just do the essential repairs, please.

  Ne faites que les réparations nécessaires, s'il vous plaît.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tamy and Tamy · checked, community translation · #1796063 #1796054

• Clay is the essential ingredient in making pottery.

  La terre glaise est le composant primordial pour faire de la poterie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · #278610 #1504387

Grammar

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