africa — English to French
How English africa is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.
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Sentence pairs counted, by form: africa (264 477), africas (7). By style: everyday 123 · literary 1 · parliamentary 6 541 · legal and administrative 3 695 · UN documents 254 124.
afrique
Used about 240 541 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 118 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 860 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 541 · UN documents ≈ 231 022). Forms: africa, afrique.
Algeria is in Africa.
L'Algérie est en Afrique.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #7866536 #8730450"Well, uncle, we are going to resume the northern route, and to pass under the north countries of Europe--under Sweden, Russia, Siberia: who knows where?--instead of burrowing under the deserts of Africa, or perhaps the waves of the Atlantic; and that is all I want to know."
—Mais nous allons reprendre la route du nord, passer sous les contrées septentrionales de l'Europe, la Suède, la Russie, la Sibérie, que sais-je! au lieu de nous enfoncer sous les déserts de l'Afrique ou les flots de l'Océan, et je ne veux pas en savoir davantage!
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3594The situation is similar in large areas of South Africa.
Dans de larges parties de l'Afrique du Sud, c'est la même chose.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 48287Republic of South Africa
République d'Afrique du Sud
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 342726716. Economic and social development in Africa
16. Développement économique et social en Afrique
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 7829667
sud
Used about 4 697 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 77 · UN documents ≈ 4 620).
western limit: a line running due south along 5o36′ west longitude from Punta Marroqui to the coast of Africa;
limite ouest: ligne allant plein sud le long de 5o36′ de longitude ouest de Punta Marroqui jusqu'à la côte africaine;
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 1810933I welcome the considerable progress made to address the shortfall with new deployments from the Governments of South Africa and Pakistan.
Je me félicite des considérables progrès accomplis dans la solution de ce problème, notamment la fourniture de nouveaux appareils par les Gouvernements sud-africain et pakistanais.
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 26777847
on
Used about 4 620 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 620).
There are an estimated 60,000 commercial farms in South Africa.
Le nombre des exploitations où l ' on pratique l ' agriculture commerciale est estimé à 60 000.
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 1961275
nord
Used about 5 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5).
My friend comes from North Africa.
Mon amie est nord-africaine.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12976331 #12976335My friend comes from North Africa.
Mon ami est d'origine nord-africaine.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12976331 #12976336
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
In the light of all this the European Union is talking in theoretical, even angelic tones, while all the time it too is engaged in exploiting Africa's natural resources.
L'Union européenne, de ce point de vue, tient un discours très théorique, voire angélique, tout en participant aussi à l'exploitation de ces ressources.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 984935The dramatic famine which the people of Africa are suffering imposes the need to plan global strategic aid, not belated mercy actions.
La grave famine que subissent les populations africaines impose la nécessité de planifier une aide stratégique mondiale et non des actes de pitié tardifs.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 715494I have discussed AIDS in Africa with President Mugabe.
J'ai discuté du SIDA avec le président Mugabe.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 36616
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