majorité — French to English

How French majorité 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: majorité (79 393), majorités (532). By style: everyday 67 · literary 1 · parliamentary 13 172 · legal and administrative 4 781 · UN documents 61 904.

majority

Used about 73 621 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · parliamentary ≈ 12 074 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 109 · UN documents ≈ 57 390). Forms: majorities, majority. Meaning: majority in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils avaient la majorité au Parlement.

  They had the majority in Parliament.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by xhlulu and Joseph · checked, community translation · #2629419 #10710989

• Il n’y a pas de majorités ici.

  There are no majorities here.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 547559

• Pouvoirs et majorités de l'assemblée générale

  Powers and voting majorities of the General Assembly

  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 3140407

• A. Majorités civile et civique

  A. Age of majority and age of franchise

  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 7132900

• La majorité des policiers sont des hommes.

  The majority of police officers are men.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11179849 #11179895

most

Used about 2 630 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 686 · UN documents ≈ 1 935). Meaning: most in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La majorité des Américains aiment les hamburgers.

  Most Americans like hamburgers.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BigMouse and CK · checked, community translation · #41207 #1593352

• Le projet que nous avons sous les yeux est soutenu par la majorité de cette Assemblée.

  The draft now before us is supported by most of the House.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 508804

• 18. En 1997, les taux d ' inflation dans la plupart des pays du CCG étaient plus bas que dans la majorité des autres pays en développement ou développés du monde.

  18. In 1997, inflation rates were lower in most GCC countries than in most of the other developing as well as developed countries in the world.

  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 5028442

• L'eau recouvre la majorité de la surface de la Terre.

  Water makes up most of the earth's surface.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CK · checked, community translation · #270826 #8357511

• La grande majorité des citoyens ne se soucie pas beaucoup de la manière dont ces principes seront mis sur pied.

  The way that is achieved is of little interest to most people.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977725

More sentences

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

• Ma fille atteindra sa majorité cette année.

  My daughter will come of age this year.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · #322881 #11913457

• Quand est-ce que ta fille a atteint sa majorité ?

  When did your daughter come of age?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CM · checked, community translation · #70372 #672972

• Quand elle atteindra sa majorité, ils vont se marier.

  When she comes of age, they are going to get married.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Luornu · checked, community translation · #308384 #877006

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