representative — English to French

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

What it means: representative in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: representative (374 414), representatives (254 640). By style: everyday 26 · literary 2 · parliamentary 12 130 · legal and administrative 31 282 · UN documents 585 614.

représentant

Used about 451 409 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 8 971 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 506 · UN documents ≈ 420 910). Forms: représentant, représentants.

• We've chosen our representative.

  Nous avons nommé notre représentant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by absvfx and Rovo · checked, community translation · #9037352 #1602587

• The former representative of the people made no reply.

  Le vieux représentant du peuple ne répondit pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 938

• I say that as a representative of a minority.

  Je parle moi-même en tant que représentant d’une minorité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 581401

• Each Member shall appoint two representatives;

  Chaque État membre désigne deux représentants;

  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 3181466

• (v) One representative from an Asian State;

  v) Un représentant d ' un État d ' Asie;

  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 16300249

président

Used about 12 454 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 253 · UN documents ≈ 12 200).

• Germany's Federal President has only representative tasks.

  Le Président fédéral de l'Allemagne n'a que des tâches représentatives.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13917753 #13917754

• The new President-in-Office of the Council and the High Representative, in particular, are also more like political lightweights.

  Avant tout, le nouveau président du Conseil et la haute représentante sont, eux aussi, plutôt considérés comme des poids plumes politiques.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1335386

• Letter dated 10 July 1996 from the Permanent Representative

  Lettre datée du 10 juillet 1996, adressée au Président de

  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 2313639

• The Heads of State or Government have chosen Herman Van Rompuy as the first President of the European Council and Catherine Ashton as High Representative.

  Les chefs d'État et de gouvernement ont choisi Herman Van Rompuy comme premier président du Conseil européen et Catherine Ashton comme haute représentante.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1307756

• The President: I thank the representative of Switzerland for her statement.

  Le Président (parle en anglais): Je remercie la représentante de la Suisse de sa déclaration.

  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 25969431

je

Used about 6 858 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 758 · UN documents ≈ 6 100).

• I have received your letter and have already contacted the British Permanent Representative.

  J'ai bien reçu votre lettre et je suis déjà intervenue auprès de la représentation britannique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 8843

• I call on the representative of Canada to introduce draft resolution A/48/L.47.

  Je donne la parole à la représentante du Canada, qui va présenter le projet de résolution A/48/L.47.

  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 551684

• I speak as a representative of a region that was not able to choose its fate after the war.

  Je prends la parole en tant que représentante d'une région qui n'a pas pu choisir son destin après la guerre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 994826

• I am sorry that the representative of the Council has repeated that language and that lack of balance in her introduction this morning.

  Je déplore le fait que la représentante du Conseil a répété ces propos dans son discours introductif ce matin et qu’on y trouve le même déséquilibre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 838420

• As an elected representative from Estonia, I would like to present some examples from Estonia concerning two Swedish banks that are operating in Estonia.

  En tant qu'élue estonienne, je voudrais présenter quelques exemples observés en Estonie dans deux banques suédoises qui opèrent dans le pays.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1274843

More sentences

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

• The king has representative functions, but does not govern.

  Le roi a des fonctions de représentation, mais il ne régit pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · #13564552 #13595618

• Monet's art is representative of Impressionism.

  L'art de Monet est représentatif de l’impressionnisme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Goofy · checked, community translation · #30348 #511296

• Our representative argued against the new tax plan.

  Notre député a argumenté contre le nouveau plan fiscal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kremel and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · #23360 #332036

Grammar

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