major — English to French

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

What it means: major in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: major (214 354), majors (231). By style: everyday 101 · literary 1 · parliamentary 15 932 · legal and administrative 9 310 · UN documents 189 241.

majors

Used about 20 584 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 226 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 588 · UN documents ≈ 15 770).

• Mr Sarkozy and his friends in the 'majors' have some respite.

  M. Sarkozy et ses amis des "majors" ont un répit.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1267433

• For the majors, the establishment of production units in low-cost countries also reflects a wish to expand sales there.

  Pour les majors, l’implantation d’unités de production dans les pays à bas coûts répond aussi à la volonté d’y développer les ventes.

  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 1682197

• To: Majors < apexholdingssia@yahoo.fr >

  To: Majors < apexholdingssia@yahoo.fr >

  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 26724573

• The Commission's recommendation may encourage these 'majors' to withdraw their repertoires from the current system of collective rights management societies, which makes it possible to safeguard rights.

  La recommandation de la Commission est susceptible d'encourager ces "majors" à retirer leurs répertoires du système actuel de sociétés de gestion collective des droits, ce qui permet la sauvegarde des droits.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 911761

• [愦灭※] For the majors, the establishment of production units in low-cost countries also reflects a wish to expand sales there.

  Pour les majors, l’implantation d’unités de production dans les pays à bas coûts répond aussi à la volonté d’y développer les ventes.

  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 2797414

majeur

Used about 18 411 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 145 · legal and administrative ≈ 485 · UN documents ≈ 15 770).

• It is a major logistics hub.

  C'est un nœud de transports majeur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #13237225 #13237226

• There is a major problem with rewarding the law-breakers.

  Récompenser les personnes qui enfreignent la loi pose un problème majeur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 515459

• A major advantage of this species is the high individual biomass (up to 40 - 50 mg wet weight per individual).

  Un avantage majeur de cette espèce est la biomasse individuelle élevée (jusqu'à 40 à 50 mg de poids humide par individu).

  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 3942244

• Reimbursement rates for major equipment and selfsustainment

  Taux de remboursement applicables au matériel majeur et au soutien logistique autonome

  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 23836098

• We haven't had any major accidents.

  Nous n'avons eu aucun accident majeur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #5592864 #5592916

grandes

Used about 12 221 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · legal and administrative ≈ 388 · UN documents ≈ 11 828).

• Small businesses are often absorbed by a major company.

  Les petites entreprises sont souvent englouties par les grandes compagnies.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and minti · checked, community translation · #267589 #138947

• Other expenditure for new major research infrastructures — Euratom Programme

  Autres dépenses pour les nouvelles grandes infrastructures de recherche — programme Euratom

  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 3101803

• Indonesia made the Netherlands one of the major colonial powers.

  L ' Indonésie a fait des Pays-Bas l ' une des grandes puissances coloniales.

  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 15180237

• Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.

  Le Japon est constitué de 4 grandes îles, de plus de 3000 petites îles et a une surface à peu près égale à celle de la Californie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #281472 #14431

• Review in the light of the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the development of carbon markets in other major economies

  Réexamen à la lumière de la mise en œuvre de l'accord de Paris et du développement des marchés du carbone dans d'autres grandes économies

  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 4561196

More sentences

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

• Ursa Major looks like a dipper.

  La Grande Ourse ressemble à une louche.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10008004 #10765066

• History is not his major subject.

  L'Histoire n'est pas sa spécialité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #245514 #8201

• If they admit me to the university, I think I will major in economics.

  S'ils m'acceptent à l'université, je crois que je vais m'inscrire en économie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Scott · checked, community translation · #30724 #392091

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