principal — English to French
How English principal is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.
What it means: principal in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: principal (50 941), principals (1 703). By style: everyday 28 · literary 17 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 057 · legal and administrative 5 259 · UN documents 46 281.
principal
Used about 24 520 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 520 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 250 · UN documents ≈ 20 730). Forms: principal, principales, principaux.
He must be the principal.
Il doit être le principal.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and adlerq · checked, community translation · #413023 #1139315For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal talent, and they were superb.
Pour l'instant les cygnes nageaient, ce qui est leur talent principal, et ils étaient superbes.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26516Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
Les principaux sacrificateurs et les principaux d’entre les Juifs lui portèrent plainte contre Paul. Ils firent des instances auprès de lui, et, dans des vues hostiles,
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:2The principal points are as follows:
Voici les principaux points:
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1854129Principal debtor or jointly liable debtor:
Débiteur principal ou débiteur solidaire:
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 3888448
directeurs
Used about 7 773 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 7 714).
A non-resident proprietorship, partnership or corporation applying for a certificate of practice to practice architecture in Prince Edward Island shall have at least two-thirds of the partners, principals or directors of the partnership or corporation be architects; and not less than the majority of issued shares of each class of voting shares of the corporation are beneficially owned by and registered in the name of architects.
Au moins deux tiers des partenaires, des dirigeants ou des directeurs d'une entreprise individuelle, d'une société ou d'un partenariat non résident qui demande un certificat autorisant la pratique de l'architecture à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard doivent être des architectes; et au moins la majorité des actions émises de chaque catégorie d'actions avec droit de vote doivent être la propriété effective d'architectes et être inscrites à leur nom.
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 259539Of the 30 principals in the Cook Islands, 11 are women.
Sur les 30 directeurs d ' écoles des Îles Cook, 11 sont des femmes.
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 15110833Out of 40 principals of teachers colleges, only eight are women.
Sur 40 directeurs d’écoles normales, 8 seulement sont des femmes.
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 2738066Of the twenty-one (21) principals one was from Region 3 as table 1 below indicate.
Des 21 directeurs d ' école, un était de la région 3 comme le montre le tableau ci-dessous.
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 15122538- Give principals proper training in administrative and financial management and leadership; and
- Assurer aux directeurs une formation adéquate en gestion administrative et financière, en leadership
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 24423524
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Have you seen the principal?
Avez-vous vu le directeur ?
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and slahatuvelli · checked, community translation · #13588630 #13581124The principal was always miserly with words.
Le directeur était toujours avare de mots.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8283821 #11463816The principal's office is at the ground floor.
Le bureau de la directrice est au rez-de-chaussée.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14068035 #14068034
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