propre — French to English

How French propre 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: propre (101 091), propres (121 578). By style: everyday 829 · literary 47 · biblical 134 · parliamentary 20 739 · legal and administrative 41 523 · UN documents 159 397.

own

Used about 107 017 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 509 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 85 · parliamentary ≈ 14 474 · legal and administrative ≈ 25 519 · UN documents ≈ 66 415). Meaning: own in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je paie mes propres dettes.

  I pay my own way.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CM · checked, community translation · #3729645 #3926739

• Cependant, tel il est, tel ce corps nous racontera sa propre histoire.»

  Yet, such as it is, the body shall tell us its own wonderful story."

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3428

• Je vous salue, moi Paul, de ma propre main.

  This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 16:21

• Système des ressources propres

  System of own resources

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1812793

• Ressource propre «TVA» au taux uniforme

  VAT-based own resource at uniform rate

  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 5046278

clean

Used about 13 606 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 181 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 864 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 595 · UN documents ≈ 9 962). Meaning: clean in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est très propre.

  It's very clean.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2249350 #4542989

• C'était une cabane toute basse, indigente, petite et propre, avec une treille clouée à la façade.

  It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed against the outside.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 730

• Elle a également suspendu la recherche sur les technologies propres.

  It has also put research on clean technology on hold.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1237702

• s'assurer que l'avion est propre; et

  ensuring that the aeroplane is clean; and

  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 1075377

• Questions relatives au mécanisme pour un développement propre

  Issues relating to the clean development mechanism

  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 19314227

each

Used about 10 622 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 216 · legal and administrative ≈ 433 · UN documents ≈ 9 962). Meaning: each in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Chaque enfant a son propre mode de pensée.

  Each child has an individual way of thinking.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #31853 #1799275

• Outre les masques, on regardait ce défilé, propre au mardi gras comme à Longchamps, de véhicules de toutes sortes, citadines, tapissières, carrioles, cabriolets, marchant en ordre, rigoureusement rivés les uns aux autres par les règlements de police et comme emboîtés dans des rails.

  Besides the maskers, they stared at that procession—peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,—of vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29549

• afin que l’homme de Dieu soit accompli et propre à toute bonne œuvre.

  that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 3:17

• Chacun de nos pays a ses propres événements sportifs qui sont plus que de simples compétitions entre équipes ou athlètes.

  Each of our countries has certain sports events which are more than just competitions between teams or athletes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725306

• L’échelon de débiteur est un identifiant de ligne qui est propre à chaque ligne du tableau.

  The obligor grade is a row identifier and shall be unique for each row in the table.

  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 4712135

More sentences

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

• Cette coutume est propre au Japon.

  This custom is peculiar to Japan.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #58573 #11155320

• Qu'importe où vous irez, vous ne trouverez pas d'endroit tel que votre propre maison.

  No matter where you go, you will find no place like home.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and Eldad · checked, community translation · #38087 #2287266

• L'air de Sydney est plus propre que celui de Tokyo.

  The air of Sydney is cleaner than that of Tokyo.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #53450 #8419586

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