certaine — French to English

How French certaine is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: certaine (32 252), certaines (254 388). By style: everyday 519 · literary 43 · biblical 21 · parliamentary 24 111 · legal and administrative 44 766 · UN documents 217 180.

some

Used about 114 295 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 260 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 9 293 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 461 · UN documents ≈ 97 279). Meaning: some in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Certaines boules sont jaunes.

  Some of the balls are yellow.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #2771410 #8418294

• Parvenu à une certaine distance du banc, bien avant d'être à la fin de l'allée, il s'arrêta, et il ne put savoir lui-même comment il se fit qu'il rebroussa chemin.

  On arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself why he retraced his steps.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15299

• Ils partirent de Béthel; et il y avait encore une certaine distance jusqu’à Éphrata, lorsque Rachel accoucha. Elle eut un accouchement pénible;

  They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 35:16

• Mais certaines personnes ici présentes ne veulent même pas en parler.

  But some people here do not even want to mention that.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 395338

• 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 77 301 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 4 521 · legal and administrative ≈ 25 181 · UN documents ≈ 47 508). 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

• La mère, regardée d'une certaine façon, se tut.

  The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16319

• 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

• Il remporte un certain succès dans certaines parties de l'ex-Yougoslavie.

  He has certainly been successful in certain parts of former Yugoslavia.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2017796

• Objet: abandon de certaines mentions sur le document de transport (n2).

  Subject: Waiving of certain indications in the transport document (n2).

  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 1448844

extent

Used about 2 980 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 466 · UN documents ≈ 2 262). Meaning: extent in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Dans une certaine mesure, je me distancie de M. Krarup, car je pense que c'est une question qu'aucun pays ne peut traiter individuellement.

  I disagree, to an extent, with Mr Krarup, in that this is an issue that no one country can address on its own.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 407318

• une zone, ou certaines parties de cette zone, délimitée par l’extension latérale des surfaces de limitation d’obstacles de l’aérodrome;

  an area, or parts thereof, bounded by the lateral extent of the aerodrome obstacle limitation surfaces;

  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 5179311

• Néanmoins, il est entendu qu ' il existe une certaine marge d ' applicabilité des droits, qui est fonction de l ' étendue des effets de la catastrophe.

  Nonetheless, it is understood that there is an implied degree of latitude in the applicability of rights, conditioned by the extent of the impact of the disaster.

  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 21631480

More sentences

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

• Êtes-vous absolument certaine de cela ?

  Are you absolutely sure of that?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3408935 #6637421

• Je suis certaine que vous êtes occupé.

  I'm sure you're busy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2046706 #8403292

• Comment pouvez-vous être certaine que c’est ce qui va se produire ?

  How can you be sure that's going to happen?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #10555683 #10555694

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