leading — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: leading (54 743), leadings (3). By style: everyday 40 · literary 15 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 4 160 · legal and administrative 3 664 · UN documents 46 859.

premier

Used about 4 848 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 173 · legal and administrative ≈ 76 · UN documents ≈ 4 594).

• China is the world's leading producer of rice.

  La Chine est le premier producteur mondial de riz.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · #681944 #12941289

• This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.

  Ce livre est un drame dont le premier personnage est l'infini.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10875

• Poland is the leading potato producer in the Union, yet it has become an importer of potato starch.

  La Pologne est le premier producteur de pomme de terre de l'Union.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 922487

• BAFA has leading experience in the provision of export control assistance and outreach activities.

  Le BAFA dispose d'une expérience de premier ordre dans le domaine de la prestation d'activités d'assistance et de communication en matière de contrôle des exportations.

  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 4483151

• The leading opposition daily, Borba, is currently threatened with being shut down.

  126. Le premier quotidien de l ' opposition, Borba, est actuellement menacé de fermeture.

  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 1173923

rôle

Used about 3 701 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 867 · legal and administrative ≈ 76 · UN documents ≈ 2 756).

• He's almost always cast as a leading man.

  On lui donne presque toujours un rôle de dirigeant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1733818 #1735909

• It is extremely important that the European Union should maintain its leading role in these negotiations.

  Il est très important que l'Union européenne conserve son rôle de chef de file dans ces négociations.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1603693

• The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) plays a leading role in the categorisation of countries or regions according to their BSE risk.

  L’Organisation mondiale de la santé animale (OIE) joue un rôle déterminant dans le classement des pays ou régions par catégorie en fonction du risque d’ESB.

  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 2527211

• Any future initiative should therefore recognize the leading role of UNESCO in this field and its capacity to mobilize other United Nations actors.

  Toute initiative future devrait donc reconnaître le rôle primordial de l ' UNESCO dans ce domaine et sa capacité de mobiliser d ' autres acteurs des Nations Unies.

  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 19864109

• He will play the leading role for the first time in the next school festival.

  Il jouera pour la première fois le rôle principal au prochain festival de l'école.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Aiji · checked, community translation · #264329 #128153

More sentences

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

• Tom counts down the days leading up to Christmas with his Advent calendar.

  Tom compte les jours avant Noël avec son calendrier de l'Avent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zumley and Yemana · checked, community translation · #5653489 #5653713

• He's a leading authority in his field.

  C'est une pointure dans son domaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1475996 #1476793

• From the instant that a human being is born, their path is leading them towards death.

  Dès l'instant où naît l'être humain, c'est vers la mort que son chemin le conduit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Rovo · checked, community translation · #11614074 #2568572

Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: English grammar · French grammar · translating between English and French · translating from English · translating into French.

About these examples

Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. Submit a better translation or example.

This page as Markdown: https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/en-fr/leading/