unique — French to English

How French unique is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: unique (80 391), uniques (5 644). By style: everyday 151 · literary 11 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 13 255 · legal and administrative 22 768 · UN documents 49 828.

single

Used about 39 880 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 6 837 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 198 · UN documents ≈ 22 838). Meaning: single in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Un unique rayon de lumière brillait à travers une fissure de la fenêtre aux volets fermés.

  A single ray of sunlight shone through a chink in the shuttered window.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #567809 #567822

• Dans cet immense horizon qui prenait tant d'aspects autour de lui, sa contemplation était concentrée sur un point unique.

  In that immense horizon, which assumed so many aspects about him, his contemplation was concentrated on a single point.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8963

• Les guichets uniques d'abord.

  Firstly, the points of single contact.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1488402

• DAU = document administratif unique

  SAD = Single Administrative Document

  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 4608060

• Économie et marché uniques

  Single market and economy

  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 2386910

unique

Used about 19 130 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 814 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 878 · UN documents ≈ 10 381). Meaning: unique in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce n'est pas unique.

  This isn't unique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5853124 #7109013

• Il y avait dans le couvent un livre qui n'a jamais été imprimé qu'à exemplaire unique, et qu'il est défendu de lire.

  There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as a unique copy, and which it is forbidden to read.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10607

• Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Un malheur, un malheur unique! Voici, il vient!

  “The Lord GOD says: ‘A disaster! A unique disaster! Behold, it comes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 7:5

• Ils ne sont pas uniques.

  They are not unique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 445576

• numéro d’identification unique du don,

  Unique Donation ID number

  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 904698

one

Used about 7 632 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 837 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 609 · UN documents ≈ 4 152). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Est-ce une rue à sens unique ?

  Is this a one-way street?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #10681414 #10322558

• Jean Valjean, de son côté, semblait avoir une pensée unique.

  Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28273

• Jésus répondit: Voici le premier: Écoute, Israël, le Seigneur, notre Dieu, est l’unique Seigneur;

  Jesus answered, “The greatest is: ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 12:29

• L'idée d'un "guichet unique" est une bonne idée.

  The idea of a 'one-stop' register is a good one.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1074959

• Tableau concernant les redevances uniques

  Table for one-off fees

  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 3114936

market

Used about 419 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 419). Meaning: market in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Dès lors, la politique pour le marché unique doit être améliorée.

  That is why there really is scope for improvement in our internal market policy.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2027917

• En Europe, nous n'arrivons qu'à grand-peine à nous entendre sur la création d'un marché européen unique.

  In Europe, uniting in a common European market is proving to be an arduous task.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 51435

• Grâce aux nouvelles facilités, notamment à travers les guichets uniques, le marché intérieur de l’Union progressera.

  Thanks to the new facilities, particularly provided via the one-stop shops, the Union's internal market will make progress.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 776625

More sentences

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

• Est-ce que toi aussi tu es fille unique ?

  Are you an only child as well?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · #11900729 #11900816

• Je ne suis pas une enfant unique.

  I'm not an only child.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2547170 #4862754

• Ce n'est pas l'unique problème.

  That's not the only problem.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2195442 #2195923

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