generally — English to French

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

What it means: generally in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: generally (66 456). By style: everyday 96 · literary 6 · parliamentary 3 588 · legal and administrative 5 201 · UN documents 57 565.

généralement

Used about 30 232 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · parliamentary ≈ 1 196 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 600 · UN documents ≈ 26 384).

• Urinals are generally white.

  Les urinoirs sont généralement blancs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and martin9 · checked, community translation · #12751541 #1450690

• More generally, it also contributes to the development of a knowledge-based society.

  Plus généralement, il contribue également au développement d’une société de la connaissance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 573349

• Generally applicable for new plants.

  Généralement applicable aux unités nouvelles.

  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 3539122

• It is in this context generally that article 2087 of the Civil Code attempts to create a framework.

  C ' est à cette fin généralement que l ' article 2087 du Code civil vise à établir un cadre.

  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 4946066

• I generally walk to school.

  Généralement, je vais à pied à l'école.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and kjh · checked, community translation · #254905 #772445

règle

Used about 5 597 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 650 · UN documents ≈ 4 797).

• We generally try to resolve Europe's problems through product policy.

  En règle générale, nous tentons de résoudre les problèmes de l'Europe en nous axant sur les produits.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1138702

• Generally, it would be the earliest of the following dates:

  En règle générale, il s'agit de la plus proche de ces deux dates:

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• The court is generally bound by the applied grounds of the proposal.

  En règle générale, le tribunal est lié par les moyens de la requête.

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• It is generally true to say that all the agencies are in a transitional phase, and they must adjust to the new Financial Regulation.

  En règle générale, on peut dire que toutes les agences se trouvent dans une phase transitoire et qu’elles doivent s’adapter au nouveau règlement financier.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 517886

• Irish resident trustee is generally taxable on income arising to the trust.

  Les trustees résidents irlandais sont en règle générale imposables sur les revenus du trust.

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on

Used about 4 876 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 75 · UN documents ≈ 4 797).

• Generally speaking, the art of governing consists in taking the most money from one part of the citizens, in order to give it to another part.

  En général, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #406997 #406996

• As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the “philanthropist’s” great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night.

  Au moment de monter l'escalier, il aperçut de l'autre côté du boulevard, le long du mur désert de la rue de la Barrière des Gobelins, Jondrette enveloppé du par-dessus du «philanthrope», qui parlait à un de ces hommes de mine inquiétante qu'on est convenu d'appeler rôdeurs de barrières; gens à figures équivoques, à monologues suspects, qui ont un air de mauvaise pensée, et qui dorment assez habituellement de jour, ce qui fait supposer qu'ils travaillent la nuit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16512

• There are not enough incentives to take risks, and this generally impedes development and dynamism.

  On n'incite pas suffisamment les gens à prendre des risques, ce qui entrave, de manière générale, le développement et la dynamique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 140398

• The Ministry of Interior has generally cooperated on facilitating visits by Human Rights Watch to prisons under its jurisdiction.

  The Ministry of Interior has generally cooperated on facilitating visits by Human Rights Watch to prisons under its jurisdiction.

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• Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France.

  Résolvez les deux problèmes, encouragez le riche et protégez le pauvre, supprimez la misère, mettez un terme à l'exploitation injuste du faible par le fort, mettez un frein à la jalousie inique de celui qui est en route contre celui qui est arrivé, ajustez mathématiquement et fraternellement le salaire au travail, mêlez l'enseignement gratuit et obligatoire à la croissance de l'enfance et faites de la science la base de la virilité, développez les intelligences tout en occupant les bras, soyez à la fois un peuple puissant et une famille d'hommes heureux, démocratisez la propriété, non en l'abolissant, mais en l'universalisant, de façon que tout citoyen sans exception soit propriétaire, chose plus facile qu'on ne croit, en deux mots sachez produire la richesse et sachez la répartir; et vous aurez tout ensemble la grandeur matérielle et la grandeur morale; et vous serez dignes de vous appeler la France.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18308

More sentences

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

• At the entrance of a Japanese house, visitors are generally asked to take off their shoes.

  À l'entrée d'une maison japonaise, les visiteurs sont en général invités à se déchausser.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and littlejohn_75 · checked, community translation · #2783737 #2791109

• I generally agree with her.

  En général je suis d'accord avec elle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #308585 #329753

• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

  La Bible nous dit d'aimer nos voisins, et aussi d'aimer nos ennemis; probablement parce qu'il s'agit en général des mêmes personnes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #410283 #416182

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