accent — French to English

How French accent is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: accent (79 341), accente (3), accents (182). By style: everyday 102 · literary 48 · parliamentary 4 424 · legal and administrative 1 547 · UN documents 73 405.

accents

Used about 27 763 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 138 · UN documents ≈ 27 434).

• Elle murmura à demi-voix, avec un accent lugubre:

  She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:—

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21974

• Le rapport est équilibré et les accents sont bien placés. Voilà pourquoi je soutiendrai pleinement son adoption.

  The report is balanced and all the accents are in the right places, which is why I fully support its adoption.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 935028

• la règle des minuscules est respectée afin de tenir compte des accents, et

  the lower case convention is followed to allow for accents, and

  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 1467526

• Please underline surname and indicate accents if any

  Please underline surname and indicate accents if any

  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 13331339

• Ce mot fut répété d'un tel accent que l'avocat se retourna.

  This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5808

emphasis

Used about 14 001 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 060 · legal and administrative ≈ 332 · UN documents ≈ 12 605). Meaning: emphasis in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il a mis l'accent sur l'importance de l'éducation.

  He placed emphasis on the importance of education.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CK · checked, community translation · #295335 #672988

• Il y a bien sûr des accents différents, mais c'est logique et normal.

  There may be some differences of emphasis, but that is quite logical and normal.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1691064

• L'accent sera mis sur les actions suivantes:

  The emphasis will be on:

  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 867507

• Accent mis sur la prévention des handicapés (approche préventive);

  Emphasis on prevention of disabilities (prevention approach);

  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 13558845

• Nous mettons l'accent sur l'importance d'être sincère.

  We lay emphasis on the importance of being sincere.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #28864 #6849790

focus

Used about 8 338 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 369 · legal and administrative ≈ 553 · UN documents ≈ 7 415). Meaning: focus in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'entreprise met l'accent sur l'innovation.

  The company places its main focus on innovation.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and bigfellow68 · checked, community translation · #6866430 #11928487

• Il faut mettre d'avantage l'accent sur la prévention des risques des catastrophes.

  We must increase the focus on disaster risk prevention.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1470319

• Accent mis sur la défaillance du marché du capital-investissement

  Focus on risk capital market failure

  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 790994

• Mars-mai 2002 : accent mis par l ' Organisation des Nations Unies sur l ' aide d ' urgence

  March to May 2002: United Nations focus on emergency assistance

  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 8559360

• Mais le Parlement demande, à juste titre, des accents plus marqués, des effets plus visibles sur l'emploi.

  But Parliament rightly asks for more focus, clearer employment results.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1784593

each

Used about 815 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 46 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 741). Meaning: each in the Elamur Dictionary.

• rapporteur. - (ES) Monsieur le Président, je me réjouis des commentaires de tous ceux qui sont intervenus sur cette question, car je pense que nous pouvons en conclure que malgré certaines différences et des accents différents, nous partageons tous le même objectif.

  rapporteur. - (ES) Mr President, I welcome the words of all my colleagues who have spoken on this item because I believe that it allows us to establish that despite varying emphases and some differences, the common objective is shared by each and every one of us.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1123614

• La présente section met l'accent sur les menaces liées à l'utilisation du mécanisme d'authentification et répertorie les exigences applicables à chaque niveau de garantie.

  This section focuses on the threats associated with the use of the authentication mechanism and lists the requirements for each assurance level.

  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 3674016

• Des approches communes peuvent être sur ce point identifiées encore que des accents divers marquent la spécificité de chacune d ' entre elle.

  Common strategies can be discerned in this area, though different traits underline the specificity of each of them.

  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 331721

More sentences

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

• À en juger par son accent, il doit être de Kyushu.

  Judging from his accent, he must be from Kyushu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #285388 #130179

• Judaïsme et bouddhisme mettent tous deux l’accent sur la modération.

  Judaism and Buddhism both emphasize moderation.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · #13048484 #13067443

• Il parle espéranto avec un fort accent russe.

  He speaks Esperanto with a strong Russian accent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by unetoilebrille and araneo · checked, community translation · #13634756 #13634726

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