island — English to French

How English island is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: island in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: island (64 255), islands (58 838). By style: everyday 214 · literary 16 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 3 648 · legal and administrative 5 220 · UN documents 113 957.

île

Used about 63 065 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 206 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 2 736 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 286 · UN documents ≈ 55 791). Forms: île, îles.

• Sumatra is an island.

  Sumatra est une île.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Pharamp · checked, community translation · #477051 #479910

• "An island!" cries my uncle.

  —Une île! s'écrie mon oncle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3055

• But we must run aground on a certain island.”

  Mais nous devons échouer sur une île.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:26

• Islands have to be helped.

  Les îles doivent être aidées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 588932

• VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S.

  ÎLES VIERGES DES ÉTATS-UNIS

  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 3350091

insulaires

Used about 36 270 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 165 · UN documents ≈ 35 612).

• · it calls for fair treatment for islands and sparsely populated regions;

  · il réclame un traitement équitable pour les régions insulaires et les régions à faible densité de population;

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 703335

• Article 80 of the Agreement provides for the accession of the other Pacific Island States.

  L’article 80 de l’accord prévoit l’adhésion des autres États insulaires du Pacifique.

  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 5122226

• Small island developing States

  Petits États insulaires en développement

  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 29008278

• In addition, the Commission should examine the impact of climate change on island regions.

  En outre, la Commission devrait examiner l'impact du changement climatique sur les régions insulaires.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 917950

• facilitating the development and reducing the isolation of the less-favoured and island regions of the Community, thereby helping to strengthen economic and social cohesion;

  faciliter le développement et réduire l'isolement des régions moins favorisées et insulaires de la Communauté et contribuer ainsi au renforcement de la cohésion économique et sociale;

  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 869446

développement

Used about 3 616 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 55 · UN documents ≈ 3 561).

• promote the development of coastal, maritime and island tourism.

  encourage le développement du tourisme côtier, maritime et insulaire.

  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 2464143

• 53. As a small island developing State, Jamaica had suffered from natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.

  53. Petit État insulaire en développement, la Jamaïque a subi des catastrophes naturelles telles qu ' ouragans et tremblements de terre.

  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 5923994

• European Development Funds have been secured to build a new causeway to link the two largest Caicos islands (North and Middle).

  On s ' est assuré des fonds de développement européens pour construire une chaussée reliant les deux plus grandes Caïques (celles du Nord et du Milieu).

  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 16574456

• 6. As a small-island developing state (SIDS), Mauritius faces all the inherent vulnerabilities of a SIDS in pursuing sustainable development.

  Petit État insulaire en développement, Maurice connaît toutes les difficultés propres à un pays de cette catégorie qui aspire à un développement durable.

  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 11992455

états

Used about 55 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 55).

• Member States with single supply terminals, or island market conditions might experience a swift increase to wide or even 100 % availability of sulphur-free fuels.

  Dans les États membres disposant d’un unique terminal d’approvisionnement ou connaissant des conditions de marché insulaire, la disponibilité des carburants sans soufre pourrait rapidement augmenter jusqu’à atteindre 100 %.

  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 596143

More sentences

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

• Gilligan's Island is just way too overacted.

  Les Joyeux naufragés, c'est une série trop surjouée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #14052747 #14052744

• I spent my holidays on the Balearic Islands.

  J'ai passé mes vacances aux Baléares.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and Aiji · checked, community translation · #9311736 #1083313

• I spent my vacation in the Balearic Islands.

  J'ai passé mes vacances aux Baléares.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6949742 #1083313

Grammar

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