africain — French to English

How French africain is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: africain (25 665), africaine (85 696), africaines (9 664), africains (48 139). By style: everyday 30 · literary 1 · parliamentary 3 306 · legal and administrative 3 755 · UN documents 162 072.

african

Used about 159 565 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 133 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 617 · UN documents ≈ 152 787). Forms: africa, african. Meaning: african in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'Afrique aux africains.

  Africa is for Africans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11203562 #11394178

• Le capitaine, enivré, colla ses lèvres ardentes à ces belles épaules africaines.

  The intoxicated captain pressed his ardent lips to those lovely African shoulders.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4791

• Le Nigéria est une grande puissance africaine.

  Nigeria is a great power in Africa.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610880

• Peste porcine africaine/classique

  African/Classical swine fever

  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 416057

• RÉUNION PLÉNIÈRE DU GROUPE AFRICAIN

  AFRICAN GROUP OF THE WHOLE

  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 8267293

continent

Used about 844 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 844). Meaning: continent in the Elamur Dictionary.

• :: Élaborer un protocole additionnel à la Charte africaine des droits de l ' homme et des peuples

  :: To develop an additional protocol to the Charter for the protection of indigenous peoples in the continent

  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 18994133

countries

Used about 844 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 844).

• b) Nombre accru de pays africains qui harmonisent leurs politiques touchant à l ' intégration régionale avec les conventions et protocoles adoptés

  (b) Increased number of countries harmonizing their national policies towards achieving regional integration in accordance with the adopted conventions and protocols

  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 13112892

south

Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17). Meaning: south in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La présidence est restée en contact quasi permanent avec les Sud-Africains tout en collaborant étroitement avec la Commission et les autres États membres.

  The presidency has remained in close touch with the South Africans throughout as well as working closely with the Commission and other Member States.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1851262

union

Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17). Meaning: union in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'Union pourrait peut-être apporter sa contribution et aider à créer les conditions pour permettre aux Africains de résoudre leurs conflits eux-mêmes.

  The Union could perhaps act as a facilitator, creating the right conditions to enable the Africans themselves to resolve their own conflicts.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1886789

More sentences

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

• Nous sommes des Africains.

  We're Africans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · #13626879 #13626900

• Nous sommes Africains.

  We're Africans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · #13626879 #13626897

• Là, pour les dieux s'élève un auguste édifice; / là, viendra l'innocence invoquer la justice ; / contre les flots grondants et les vents orageux / le commerce a ses ports ; le théâtre a ses jeux, / et déjà, de la scène ornements magnifiques, / les marbres africains sont taillés en portiques.

  Those clothe with awe / the Senate; there they choose the judges for the law. / These delve the port; the broad foundations there / they lay for theatres of ample space, / and columns, hewn from marble rocks, prepare, / tall ornaments, the future stage to grace.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #6789616 #6626788

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