certaines — French to English

How French certaines is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: certaines (254 388). By style: everyday 302 · literary 16 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 17 777 · legal and administrative 41 803 · UN documents 194 485.

some

Used about 114 549 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 252 · parliamentary ≈ 7 777 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 225 · UN documents ≈ 101 294). 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

• 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

• Dans certaines zones portuaires, le respect de certaines normes de qualité de l’air peut être compromise par les émissions des navires.

  In some port areas, the attainment of air quality standards may be jeopardised by ship emissions.

  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 880710

• Malheureusement, certaines tendances indiquent qu ' une telle possibilité existe.

  Unfortunately, some trends in outer space indicate that such a possibility exists.

  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 13219798

• Je connais certaines de ces filles.

  I know some of these girls.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1750215 #1763070

certain

Used about 72 619 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 740 · UN documents ≈ 40 518). Meaning: certain in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Pour certaines tâches, mon ordinateur peut être bien utile.

  For certain tasks, my computer can be very useful.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and dracae · checked, community translation · #1497948 #1203385

• Casser le fil semble être l'instinct de certaines familles misérables.

  It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the thread.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12915

• 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

More sentences

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

• Sami doit éclaircir certaines choses pour moi.

  Sami has to clear up a few things for me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · #6385966 #6386058

• Je n'arrive pas à comprendre les raisons qui poussent certaines personnes à parasiter les forums.

  I just don't understand what goes through the minds of people who troll forums.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and fcbond · checked, community translation · #328682 #967668

• Il me semblait clair que le plan nécessitait certaines révisions.

  It seemed obvious to me that the plan needed a few revisions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #48553 #7110286

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