mandatory — English to French

How English mandatory is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: mandatory in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mandatories (3), mandatory (30 625). By style: everyday 15 · parliamentary 1 307 · legal and administrative 4 786 · UN documents 24 520.

obligatoire

Used about 23 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 899 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 287 · UN documents ≈ 18 270). Forms: obligatoire, obligatoires.

• It is a mandatory mark.

  C'est une marque obligatoire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tjwhale and Igider · checked, community translation · #11021371 #9341379

• Primary school attendance is mandatory in all countries.

  La scolarité primaire est obligatoire dans tous les pays.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1532853

• Customer gold deposits: mandatory

  Dépôts en or de clientèle: obligatoire

  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 3232577

• 5.1 Are field inspections mandatory?

  5.1 Des inspections sur pied sont-elles obligatoires ?

  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 7538328

• Attendance is mandatory.

  La présence est obligatoire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2244992 #4547378

More sentences

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

• At a grassroots level, it is mandatory to take action.

  Au niveau local, il est nécessaire d'agir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sbgodin and Sbgodin · checked, community translation · #1945535 #1945532

• Is it mandatory for us to wear these ridiculous ties?

  Est-on obligés de porter ces cravates ridicules ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Amastan · checked, community translation · #12916522 #3925662

• This is not just about mandatory national requirements, but about specific projects.

  Il ne s'agit pas seulement d'exigences nationales contraignantes, mais de projets spécifiques.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1430777

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