universel — French to English

How French universel 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: universel (42 568), universele (3), universels (7 851). By style: everyday 16 · literary 6 · parliamentary 1 754 · legal and administrative 1 899 · UN documents 46 747.

universal

Used about 42 948 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 644 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 622 · UN documents ≈ 39 664). Meaning: universal in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Amenez un adaptateur universel.

  Get a universal adapter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11958888 #11958914

• Cet individu comptait à lui seul plus que le groupe universel.

  This individual alone counted for more than a universal group.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7171

• C’est un principe de droit universel.

  This is a universal principle of law.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 747658

• universels et pour essais de traction

  Universal or for tensile tests

  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 4699625

• Les droits de l ' homme sont universels.

  Human rights are universal.

  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 21878163

More sentences

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

• Le CouchSurfing c'est comme parler espéranto, c'est la réalisation d'un rêve : le village universel.

  CouchSurfing is like speaking Esperanto, it's a dream coming true: the global village.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and al_ex_an_der · checked, community translation · #1031512 #1031511

• Un esprit universel est quelqu'un qui en connaît un paquet sur un paquet de trucs.

  A polymath is someone who knows a whole lot about a whole lot.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #1463262 #1464835

• La mort est le remède universel de la nature.

  Death is Nature's remedy for all things.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · #1937197 #1942172

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