English-French translations for example

• exemple
  Permettez-moi de citer deux exemples. Allow me to give two examples.
  Laissez-moi vous citer quelques exemples. Let me give you a few examples.
  Permettez-moi de donner quelques exemples. Allow me to give a few examples.
• échantillon
  Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, nous venons d'entendre un échantillon du discours démagogue que l'extrême-droite peut tenir. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have just been treated to a classic example of the rabble-rousing abilities of the far Right.
  Une fois cette confirmation reçue, le PNUE a entrepris une mission en automne dernier afin de prélever des échantillons de terre, d'eau et de végétation. When that confirmation was given, UNEP carried out a mission to collect, for example, soil, water and vegetation samples in autumn last year.
• exemplaire
  L'Union européenne, ici, doit être exemplaire. The European Union must set an example.
  L’Europe doit aussi se montrer exemplaire sur le plan interne. Europe also has to act as an example internally.
  Face à ce drame, l'Union européenne doit être exemplaire. The European Union must set an example in the face of this tragedy.
• modèle
  M. Rohde a évoqué le modèle chinois. Mr Rohde mentioned the example of China.
  À l'inverse, les Pays-Bas font figure de modèle, et nous les en félicitons. The Netherlands we salute as setting the best example.
  De ce point de vue, notre Europe doit être un modèle, un exemple. This Europe of ours must be a model in this field. It must set an example.

Definition of example

• Something that is representative of all such things in a group
• Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule
• Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated or not to be imitated (a bad example
• A person punished as a warning to others
• A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model
• An instance serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule
• To be illustrated or exemplified (by

Related words

• unexampled
• counterexample
• for example
• learn from example
• lead by example
• make an example of
• set an example
• case example
• audio example