general — English to French

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

What it means: general in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: general (1 776 768), generals (879). By style: everyday 135 · literary 40 · parliamentary 22 694 · legal and administrative 73 644 · UN documents 1 681 134.

général

Used about 1 471 427 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 123 · literary ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 19 857 · legal and administrative ≈ 67 979 · UN documents ≈ 1 383 433). Forms: général, générale, générales, généraux.

• He became a general.

  Il est devenu général.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #8373503 #11840187

• Long live General Lafayette!”

  Vive le général Lafayette!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20792

• Yet these heartless generals take little notice of what we tell them.

  Or, ces généraux impitoyables n'en ont cure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1104561

• Other Brigadier-Generals

  Autres généraux de brigade

  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 1728828

• Note by the Secretary-General

  Note du Secrétaire général

  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 16862188

je

Used about 712 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 709).

• I think I understand the general idea.

  Je crois que je comprends l'idée globale.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and genes1s · checked, community translation · #6809005 #13338033

• I believe it is essential for civil servants to be accountable to the general public.

  Je pense qu'il est fondamental que les fonctionnaires soient responsables devant les citoyens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377350

• I have no doubt that the people of Burma would then overcome the power of the generals.

  Si c'était le cas, je suis persuadée que le peuple de Birmanie parviendrait à se soulever contre la junte au pouvoir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1104630

• I therefore agree with the statement that in the current circumstances, the general principle for European financing is to follow an ethos of budgetary austerity.

  Je pars donc du principe que, dans les circonstances actuelles, le financement européen doit répondre à une éthique d'austérité budgétaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1515683

More sentences

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

• They are trying to discredit me in the eyes of the general public.

  Ils essayent de me discréditer aux yeux du grand public.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Aiji · checked, community translation · #13816234 #8670522

• Ambiguous phrases in general lead to amusing interpretations.

  Les phrases ambiguës donnent souvent lieu à d'amusantes interprétations.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Archibald · checked, community translation · #1225278 #443950

• Yanni learned general Berber.

  Yanni a appris un tamazight de base.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9354318 #11840189

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