initiative — French to English

How French initiative is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: initiative (146 043), initiatives (158 781). By style: everyday 15 · literary 2 · parliamentary 23 622 · legal and administrative 10 394 · UN documents 270 791.

initiative

Used about 253 634 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 19 193 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 770 · UN documents ≈ 225 659). Forms: initiative, initiatives. Meaning: initiative in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'initiative est punissable.

  The initiative is punishable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Balamax and Balamax · checked, community translation · #4821687 #4821685

• Paris commence au badaud et finit au gamin, deux êtres dont aucune autre ville n'est capable; l'acceptation passive qui se satisfait de regarder, et l'initiative inépuisable; Prudhomme et Fouillou.

  Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12624

• Ce sont les initiatives SEM 2000 et MAP 2000.

  This is what the SEM 2000 and MAP 2000 initiatives are for.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1929262

• Esprit d'initiative et d'entreprise

  Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship

  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 882056

• Le service a également lancé les initiatives suivantes :

  The Unit has also undertaken the following initiatives:

  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 9000725

More sentences

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

• Elle fit la vaisselle de sa propre initiative.

  She did the dishes of her own accord.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and Goofy · checked, community translation · #314588 #181750

• Je ne peux pas prendre une autre initiative.

  I can't take another step.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1230869 #1232812

• Où se trouve le syndicat d'initiative ?

  Where is the tourist information office?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Edouard and CK · checked, community translation · #20924 #431731

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