illegal — English to French

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

What it means: illegal in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: illegal (72 256), illegals (46). By style: everyday 101 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 7 149 · legal and administrative 3 363 · UN documents 61 688.

illégal

Used about 36 158 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 84 · parliamentary ≈ 3 478 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 752 · UN documents ≈ 30 844). Forms: illégal, illégale, illégales, illégaux.

• It's not illegal.

  Ce n'est pas illégal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2025430 #2025665

• - The CIA and the illegal transportation of prisoners (RC-B6-0649/2005)

  - CIA et transport illégal de prisonniers (RC-B6-0649/2005)

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 758259

• Senior official, closely associated with the illegal government of Anjouan

  Haut fonctionnaire, étroitement associé au gouvernement illégal d'Anjouan

  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 1503217

• Special cases of illegals in Europe

  Cas particuliers des illégaux en Europe

  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 6296938

• They're not illegal.

  Ils ne sont pas illégaux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #2243645 #6379195

clandestins

Used about 7 281 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 836 · UN documents ≈ 5 443).

• Sami was pimping out his workers because they were illegal immigrants.

  Sami exploitait ses employés puisqu'ils étaient des immigrés clandestins.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #7205102 #14033178

• Illegals are brought to closed centres, with good reason.

  Les clandestins sont conduits à juste titre dans des centres fermés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 945698

• Up to 400 illegals arrived in Mayotte every day in small boats from the Comoros.

  Jusqu ' à 400 clandestins arrivent chaque jour à Mayotte dans des petites embarcations en provenance des Comores.

  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 18681366

• One might sum this up as meaning that, if there are too many illegal immigrants, we arrange for them all to be legalised.

  Pour résumer: il y a trop de clandestins?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 551444

• Those people, who are known as illegals, are in fact a bridge for integration.

  Ceux que l ' on appelle les clandestins ne sont en réalité qu ' autant de passerelles vers l ' intégration.

  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 23749601

immigration

Used about 2 117 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 580 · legal and administrative ≈ 631 · UN documents ≈ 907).

• We are wrong if we only ever speak about illegal immigration rather than about the people who can be integrated into European life.

  Nous avons tort si nous ne faisons que parler de l'immigration clandestine au lieu des personnes qui peuvent s'intégrer à la vie européenne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 914805

• The Parties shall cooperate in order to prevent and control illegal immigration.

  Les parties coopèrent en vue de prévenir et de contrôler l'immigration clandestine.

  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 146893

• 7. Transfer of information between the Ministry of the Interior and the Immigration Authority should be continued and heightened in order to prevent unnecessary arrests of foreign workers - Since the Immigration Authority of the Police is no longer in existence, the " Oz Unit " of the Ministry of Interior arrests illegals.

  7. Les échanges d ' informations entre le Ministère de l ' intérieur et le service de l ' immigration devraient se poursuivre, voire se renforcer, afin de prévenir les arrestations inutiles de travailleurs étrangers - depuis que le service de l ' immigration de la police a disparu, c ' est l ' unité < < Oz > > du Ministère de l ' intérieur qui procède aux arrestations des personnes en situation irrégulière.

  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 22386111

• Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this directive is a first significant step in the fight against illegal immigration.

  Madame la Présidente, Mesdames, Messieurs les parlementaires, cette directive est un premier pas significatif dans la lutte contre l'immigration irrégulière.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1205229

• The Parties shall cooperate in order to prevent and control illegal immigration.

  Les parties coopèrent en vue de prévenir et de contrôler l’immigration clandestine.

  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 2813349

More sentences

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

• The ship was searched thoroughly, but no illegal drugs were found.

  Le navire fut soigneusement fouillé mais aucune drogue ne fut trouvée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1963163 #1965500

• Do you use any illegal substances?

  Consommes-tu des substances illicites ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9849568 #9937052

• Tom did nothing illegal.

  Tom n'a commis aucun acte illicite.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #3286821 #3432783

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