certain — French to English

How French certain 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: certain (155 506), certaine (32 252), certaines (254 388), certains (364 829). By style: everyday 1 333 · literary 97 · biblical 40 · parliamentary 73 184 · legal and administrative 103 644 · UN documents 628 677.

some

Used about 281 716 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 632 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 24 776 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 274 · UN documents ≈ 239 028). Meaning: some in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Certains d'entre nous le détestent.

  Some of us hate it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #4949943 #5311663

• Elle se souleva, s'assit, le regarda, et avec un de ces efforts de courage qu'il faut, en certains cas, pour se tuer, elle lui dit:

  She raised herself, she sat up, looked in his face, and with an effort of courage such as it must cost in some cases to kill one’s self, she said:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1839

• Les péchés de certains hommes sont manifestes, même avant qu’on les juge, tandis que chez d’autres, ils ne se découvrent que dans la suite.

  Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:24

• Cependant, un certain nombre d’interrogations demeurent.

  Nonetheless, there remain some questions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795102

• Peu ou pas d’autonomie sur l’ordre et une certaine autonomie sur le contenu

  Little or no autonomy on order and some autonomy on content

  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 5293043

certain

Used about 189 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 153 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 14 484 · legal and administrative ≈ 53 981 · UN documents ≈ 121 151). Meaning: certain in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je n'en suis pas certaine.

  I'm not certain.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2248129 #4841737

• Il sentit un certain froid.

  He had a certain sensation of cold.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12124

• Il dit encore cette parabole, en vue de certaines personnes se persuadant qu’elles étaient justes, et ne faisant aucun cas des autres:

  He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:9

• Cela implique également un certain niveau de protection environnementale.

  It also implies a certain level of environmental protection.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 564596

• abrogeant certains actes obsolètes du Conseil

  repealing certain obsolete Council acts

  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 1941498

number

Used about 128 941 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 9 529 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 336 · UN documents ≈ 108 054). Meaning: number in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je l'ai fait un certain nombre de fois.

  I've done that a number of times.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #5230894 #11329186

• Il en avait déjà ainsi posé un certain nombre depuis une heure environ qu'il était dans le jardin.

  During the hour or thereabouts that he had been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10079

• Je comprends le mécontentement de certains intervenants.

  I do understand the dissatisfaction of a number of speakers.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1091612

• L’évaluation se caractérise par le respect d’un certain nombre de principes:

  Assessing shall be characterised by reliance on a number of principles:

  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 2108337

• Mme Sulimani donne lecture d ' un certain nombre de révisions orales du texte.

  3. She read out a number of oral revisions to the text.

  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 23818675

there

Used about 26 311 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 287 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 080 · UN documents ≈ 22 921). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je suis certain qu'on va y trouver quelque chose.

  I'm sure we'll find something there.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and CK · checked, community translation · #2539709 #12546637

• --Cependant, j'ai cru remarquer une certaine animation dans les rues.

  “But I thought there was a great deal of disturbance in the streets.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2135

• Mais au bout d’un certain temps le torrent fut à sec, car il n’était point tombé de pluie dans le pays.

  After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 17:7

• Certaines forces risquent d'intervenir et de diviser l'opinion de l'UE.

  There are forces that may intervene in such a way as to cause division in the EU's view.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 456270

• S'il est prévu, à une certaine date, une option d'achat associée à une majoration de la rémunération, cette date est considérée comme l'échéance de la protection.

  If at a given moment there is a call option in combination with a step-up, such moment is treated as the maturity of the protection.

  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 2951010

More sentences

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

• Es-tu certain que Tom a dit la vérité ?

  Are you sure Tom told the truth?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by filbert and CK · checked, community translation · #9465894 #10791477

• Je ne suis pas certain que je veuille faire ça maintenant.

  I'm not sure I want to do this now.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2016925 #2019689

• Un certain monsieur Jones est venu vous voir.

  A Mr Jones has come to see you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and sundown · checked, community translation · #52904 #1949716

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