border — English to French

How English border is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: border in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: border (98 154), borders (32 847). By style: everyday 96 · literary 7 · biblical 207 · parliamentary 16 561 · legal and administrative 19 497 · UN documents 94 633.

frontières

Used about 83 102 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 78 · biblical ≈ 41 · parliamentary ≈ 10 696 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 170 · UN documents ≈ 61 117). Forms: frontière, frontières.

• Down with borders!

  À bas les frontières !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #8235000 #8235196

• “You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.

  Tu passeras aujourd’hui la frontière de Moab, à Ar,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 2:18

• Transport knows no borders.

  Le trafic ne connaît pas de frontières.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 252852

• Crossing of external borders

  Franchissement des frontières extérieures

  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 3958143

• F. Delineation of borders

  F. Délimitation des frontières

  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 26791544

israël

Used about 28 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 28).

• So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

  On chercha dans tout le territoire d’Israël une fille jeune et belle, et on trouva Abischag, la Sunamite, que l’on conduisit auprès du roi.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 1:3

• They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

  Ils répondirent au roi: Puisque cet homme nous a consumés, et qu’il avait le projet de nous détruire pour nous faire disparaître de tout le territoire d’Israël,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 21:5

• So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.

  Lorsqu’ils eurent achevé de faire le partage du pays, d’après ses limites, les enfants d’Israël donnèrent à Josué, fils de Nun, une possession au milieu d’eux.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 19:49

• The Lord GOD says: “This shall be the border by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

  Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Voici les limites du pays que vous distribuerez en héritage aux douze tribus d’Israël. Joseph aura deux parts.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 47:13

• So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. The LORD’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

  Ainsi les Philistins furent humiliés, et ils ne vinrent plus sur le territoire d’Israël. La main de l’Éternel fut contre les Philistins pendant toute la vie de Samuel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 7:13

More sentences

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

• We camped on the border of the lake.

  Nous campâmes au bord du lac.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Erwan29200 · checked, community translation · #23194 #749363

• We camped on the border of the lake.

  Nous avons campé au bord du lac.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Erwan29200 · checked, community translation · #23194 #749364

• California and Nevada border on each other.

  La Californie et le Nevada se jouxtent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · #63511 #801310

Grammar

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