formal — English to French

How English formal is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: formal in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: formal (67 016). By style: everyday 21 · literary 2 · parliamentary 2 260 · legal and administrative 6 516 · UN documents 58 217.

formelle

Used about 23 443 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 895 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 344 · UN documents ≈ 18 193). Forms: formel, formelle.

• He disobeyed a formal instruction.

  Il a désobéi à un ordre formel.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Aiji · checked, community translation · #14025035 #8718445

• It is formal, conventional in appearance.

  Contenu d'apparence formelle, conventionnelle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1619883

• GROUNDS FOR OPENING THE FORMAL INVESTIGATION

  MOTIFS DE L'OUVERTURE DE LA PROCÉDURE FORMELLE D'EXAMEN

  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 5676594

• The PSI has no formal structure, headquarters or chairperson.

  L ' Initiative n ' a ni structure formelle, ni siège, ni président.

  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 13410734

• No formal training is required.

  Aucun entraînement formel n'est requis.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5360748 #7871633

More sentences

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

• Using the formal "vous" is a form of respect.

  Le vouvoiement marque le respect.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and felix63 · checked, community translation · #13867709 #13867474

• I want to lodge a formal complaint.

  Je veux faire enregistrer une plainte en bonne et due forme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2016897 #2437925

• Don't be so formal, please!

  Ne faites pas de cérémonies, je vous prie !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1737635 #1143647

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