legitimate — English to French

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

What it means: legitimate in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: legitimate (36 766), legitimates (23). By style: everyday 9 · literary 5 · parliamentary 2 913 · legal and administrative 2 860 · UN documents 31 002.

légitime

Used about 28 985 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 2 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 800 · UN documents ≈ 23 916). Forms: légitime, légitimes.

• It's a legitimate question.

  C'est une question légitime.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3142796 #11859784

• The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall.

  Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1044

• That is a serious and legitimate question.

  C’est une question sérieuse, c’est une question légitime.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 611031

• Legitimate expectations and legal certainty

  Confiance légitime et sécurité juridique

  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 2221611

• 4. Has a legitimate source of income;

  d) Qui a des moyens de subsistance provenant d ' une source légitime;

  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 10388627

intérêts

Used about 502 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 443).

• From the point of view of Serbia's legitimate interests, he will be seen as the destroyer of Serbian interests.

  Il restera celui qui aura réduit à néant les intérêts serbes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1991724

• The consensus of the majority legitimates the one-party system as the political representative of the workers ' and the entire nation ' s vital interests.

  La légitimité du parti unique est accréditée par le consensus majoritaire qui soutient le Parti communiste comme force politique représentant les intérêts vitaux des travailleurs et de toute la nation.

  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 13850533

More sentences

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

• We consider it the citizens' legitimate right to have public libraries.

  Nous croyons qu'il est évident que les citoyens ont le droit d'avoir une bibliothèque publique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Scott · checked, community translation · #22991 #393228

• It's a legitimate worry.

  C'est une inquiétude justifiée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1522197 #1522377

• Are the objections to the airport legitimate or is it just a case of nimbyism?‎

  Est-ce que les arguments contre l'aéroport sont justifiés, où est-ce que c'est juste un cas de « pas de ça chez moi » ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lovasoa and lovasoa · checked, community translation · #4759534 #4759543

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