principe — French to English

How French principe 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: principe (202 292), principes (250 616). By style: everyday 82 · literary 10 · parliamentary 32 606 · legal and administrative 36 946 · UN documents 383 264.

principle

Used about 325 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 27 511 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 788 · UN documents ≈ 267 486). Forms: principle, principles. Meaning: principle in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom n'a pas de principes.

  Tom has no principles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · #5148886 #8990543

• --Toi, endoctriner des républicains! toi, réchauffer, au nom des principes, des coeurs refroidis!

  “You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold in the name of principle!”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18616

• Il s’agit là d’un principe.

  That is a principle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 748598

• et respectent le principe de non-refoulement.

  and respect the principle of non-refoulement.

  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 1460598

• D. Examen des questions de principe 91 - 93 31

  D. Concerning questions of principle 91 - 93 30

  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 1966761

based

Used about 7 985 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 985).

• Il part du principe que la création des centres se fera progressivement et obéira à des besoins fonctionnels.

  The Committee understands that the establishment of the centres would proceed gradually; in this connection, the Committee trusts that their establishment will be based on functional requirements.

  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 14539757

• Les délégations ont accueilli favorablement et approuvé le budget d ' appui biennal qui était présenté pour la première fois selon le principe de la gestion axée sur les résultats.

  88. Delegations welcomed and expressed support for the biennial support budget (BSB) being presented for the first time in the results-based format.

  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 18889035

More sentences

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

• Tom a pour principe de ne jamais demander son âge à une femme.

  Tom always makes it a rule never to ask a woman her age.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · #1027164 #5740028

• Il tient pour principe de faire une promenade chaque matin.

  He makes it a rule to take a walk every morning.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #303879 #1051048

• Il tient pour principe de ne jamais parler des autres en mal.

  He makes it a rule never to speak ill of others.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #301075 #465663

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