ordinary — English to French

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

What it means: ordinary in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: ordinaries (4), ordinary (25 627). By style: everyday 41 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 795 · legal and administrative 4 000 · UN documents 19 793.

ordinaire

Used about 16 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 31 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 084 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 583 · UN documents ≈ 11 800). Forms: ordinaire, ordinaires.

• That is ordinary-looking.

  Cela est d'aspect ordinaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wuzzy and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4170301 #4170693

• He went for the armchairs and restored them to their ordinary place near the hearth.

  Il alla chercher les fauteuils, et les remit à leur place ordinaire près de la cheminée.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31139

• Why do ordinary Cubans take such risks?

  Pourquoi les citoyens cubains ordinaires prennent-ils de tels risques?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 595650

• Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure,

  statuant conformément à la procédure législative ordinaire,

  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 4734499

• Judgment shall be given as in ordinary cases.

  Le jugement est rendu comme dans une affaire ordinaire.

  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 20455812

citoyens

Used about 530 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 150 · UN documents ≈ 381).

• Where is the security which the ordinary people have been promised?

  Où est la sécurité promise aux citoyens?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728291

• Their efforts have made an important contribution to improving the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

  Par leurs efforts, ils ont beaucoup contribué à l ' amélioration des conditions d ' existence des citoyens iraquiens.

  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 21324254

• How can monetary policy meet ordinary people's expectations?

  Comment la politique monétaire peut-elle répondre aux attentes des citoyens? En quoi peut-elle répondre à ces attentes?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725200

• If it is a priority for ordinary citizens, then it must be a priority for the Heads of State or Government.

  Si c'est une priorité des citoyens, ce doit être une priorité des chefs d'État et de gouvernement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1903263

• But as well as betraying the EU/EOM and ordinary Pakistanis, you are also betraying the ideals of your own Presidency.

  Mais tout en trahissant la MOE de l'UE ainsi que les citoyens pakistanais, ce sont également les idéaux de votre propre présidence que vous trahissez.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 390196

More sentences

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

• Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

  Les sages s'entretiennent des idées, les intellectuels des faits, et le commun des mortels, de ce qu'ils mangent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gracehero and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #556768 #570263

• I am just an ordinary girl.

  Je n'ai rien d'extraordinaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by oliviya and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4004981 #4005150

• Nothing out of the ordinary happened.

  Rien d'extraordinaire n'est survenu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2930086 #4563170

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