exceptional — English to French

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

What it means: exceptional in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: exceptional (26 309), exceptionals (4). By style: everyday 15 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 699 · legal and administrative 6 416 · UN documents 18 181.

exceptionnel

Used about 21 809 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 345 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 676 · UN documents ≈ 14 772). Forms: exceptionnel, exceptionnelle, exceptionnelles, exceptionnels.

• This is an exceptional case.

  C'est un cas exceptionnel.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #55372 #7032296

• But, sad to say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary.

  Mais, chose triste, de temps en temps, l'exceptionnel est nécessaire.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23694

• That is nothing exceptional.

  Il n'y a là rien d'exceptionnel.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 225139

• Exceptional and critical circumstances

  Circonstances exceptionnelles et graves

  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 3626382

• Request approved on an exceptional basis

  Demande approuvée à titre exceptionnel

  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 19868110

circonstances

Used about 159 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 35 · legal and administrative ≈ 123).

• Having come into office in quite exceptional circumstances, they have managed to lay the foundations for a radical reform which will bear fruit in the future.

  Entrés en fonction dans des circonstances particulières, ils ont su mettre en chantier une réforme en profondeur qui portera ses fruits dans la durée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68931

• In such exceptional circumstances, a statement of the reasons why such summarisation is not possible shall be provided.

  Dans ces circonstances, les raisons pour lesquelles un résumé ne peut être fourni sont exposées.

  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 4001753

More sentences

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

• He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified against a surprise.

  Il se disait que c'était donc vrai, qu'il y avait des exceptions, que l'autorité pouvait être décontenancée, que la règle pouvait rester court devant un fait, que tout ne s'encadrait pas dans le texte du code, que l'imprévu se faisait obéir, que la vertu d'un forçat pouvait tendre un piège à la vertu d'un fonctionnaire, que le monstrueux pouvait être divin, que la destinée avait de ces embuscades-là, et il songeait avec désespoir que lui-même n'avait pas été à l'abri d'une surprise.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28620

• It is true that we have focused strongly on the economic problems that this exceptional and unforeseeable situation has caused.

  C'est vrai que nous nous sommes beaucoup focalisés sur les problèmes économiques que cette situation particulière et imprévisible engendre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1371151

• That is why this matter is of exceptional political importance this week.

  Voilà pourquoi ce problème revêt un caractère politique d'une extrême importance cette semaine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 79662

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