historical — English to French

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

What it means: historical in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: historical (24 556). By style: everyday 22 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 912 · legal and administrative 2 359 · UN documents 20 261.

historique

Used about 18 937 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 753 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 966 · UN documents ≈ 15 196). Forms: historique, historiques.

• This is a historical moment.

  C'est un moment historique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Balamax · checked, community translation · #2790506 #2791689

• Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience.

  Louis-Philippe, comme tous les hommes historiques sortis de scène, est aujourd'hui mis en jugement par la conscience humaine.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18186

• This could represent a historical step forward.

  Cela pourrait représenter une avancée historique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 485122

• Historical activity level for new entrants

  Niveau d'activité historique des nouveaux entrants

  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 4914601

• Property of historical and artistic importance.

  Biens présentant un intérêt historique et artistique.

  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 1004650

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

• You'll find that book in the historical section of the library.

  Tu trouveras ce livre dans le département Histoire de la bibliothèque.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #43912 #1142023

• The Union has an historical duty to be involved.

  Une implication qu'elle doit au nom de l'histoire aussi.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 221208

• To this end and in line with its historical commitments, the EU must promote and support this form of decentralised cooperation.

  C’est pourquoi l’Union doit, conformément à ses engagements passés, promouvoir et soutenir cette forme de coopération décentralisée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541483

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