majority — English to French

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

What it means: majority in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: majorities (708), majority (85 141). By style: everyday 66 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 13 678 · legal and administrative 5 049 · UN documents 67 052.

majorité

Used about 71 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 12 111 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 183 · UN documents ≈ 55 178). Forms: majorité, majorités.

• They had the majority in Parliament.

  Ils avaient la majorité au Parlement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Joseph and xhlulu · checked, community translation · #2629419 #10710989

• There are no majorities here.

  Il n’y a pas de majorités ici.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 547559

• It shall take its decisions by majority vote.

  Il prend ses décisions à la majorité.

  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 299731

• For A majority of read Some

  Remplacer < < Une majorité de > > par < < Quelques > > .

  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 14447367

• The majority of police officers are men.

  La majorité des policiers sont des hommes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11179849 #11179895

minorités

Used about 841 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 142 · UN documents ≈ 698).

• They need to work on political stability, they need to stop any provocation of ethnic non-majorities and neighbours, and they need to guarantee freedom of the media and expression.

  Elles doivent œuvrer à la stabilité politique, renoncer à toute provocation à l'égard des minorités ethniques et des voisins, et garantir la liberté des médias et d'expression.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1540738

• Apart from the majority Han ethnic group, there were 55 ethnic minorities, a total of 100 million people who accounted for 8 per cent of the total population.

  Outre les Hans, groupe ethnique majoritaire, le pays compte 55 minorités ethniques, lesquelles représentent 100 millions de personnes, soit 8 % de la population.

  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 20568699

grande

Used about 357 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 285 · legal and administrative ≈ 72).

• Quite correctly, he notes that the majority of the EU's budget is administered in the Member States.

  Il remarque tout à fait à juste titre que la plus grande partie du budget de l'UE est gérée au sein des États membres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 309563

• The majority of the Agency staff should be directly engaged in the operational implementation of the Agency’s mandate.

  La plus grande partie des effectifs de l’Agence devrait se consacrer directement à la mise en œuvre opérationnelle du mandat de l’Agence.

  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 2941373

• In offices, schools and homes we all spend the overwhelming majority of our time in enclosed spaces.

  Dans les bureaux, les écoles et les maisons, nous passons tous, de loin, la plus grande partie de notre temps à l'intérieur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1128216

More sentences

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

• Christians are the majority in France.

  Les chrétiens sont majoritaires en France.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #11790623 #8685018

• She spends a majority of her time taking care of her children.

  Elle consacre l'essentiel de son temps à s'occuper de ses enfants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #909557 #1403217

• It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is foolish because it has suited the majority.

  Il y a à parier que toute idée publique, toute convention reçue, est une sottise, car elle a convenu au plus grand nombre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #1497964 #711241

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