boys — English to French
How English boys is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.
The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: boys (27 365). By style: everyday 275 · literary 8 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 240 · legal and administrative 1 506 · UN documents 25 331.
garçons
Used about 22 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 275 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 135 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 506 · UN documents ≈ 20 581). Forms: garçonnets, garçons.
It's a boys' club.
C'est un cercle de garçons.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1737355 #1737725The little boys stared at him in surprise.
Les petits garçons le regardèrent interdits.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20606The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
Les rues de la ville seront remplies de jeunes garçons et de jeunes filles, jouant dans les rues.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 8:5Men, girls and boys, are also involved.
Nous parlons également d'hommes, de filles et de garçons.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 55209Men's or boys'
pour hommes ou garçonnets
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 3010749
filles
Used about 529 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 528).
And the crowd burst into a laugh, especially the boys and young girls.
Et la foule de rire, surtout les enfants et les jeunes filles.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3444202. According to the following table, there was a nearly balanced tendency in the transition between boys and girls with, however, a slight predominance of girls.
202. Comme indiqué dans le tableau ci-dessous, le taux de passage du premier au deuxième cycle était relativement équilibré pour les deux sexes, malgré une légère prédominance des filles.
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 24354323
hommes
Used about 20 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20).
Within five days 7 000 men and boys were brutally murdered.
En cinq jours, 7 000 hommes et jeunes gens ont été brutalement assassinés.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 706518This process involves wide boys acting in cahoots with the country's politicians to dupe entrepreneurs.
Dans ce processus, les arnaqueurs sont de mèche avec les hommes politiques du pays pour duper les entrepreneurs.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1423045We must move away from the perception of an 'all boys club' to a more representative grouping running the EU.
Nous devons réformer cette image d'un "club réservé aux hommes" à un groupe plus représentatif dirigeant l'UE.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037960For two years the 660 men and boys in Camp Delta have been denied the rights of prisoners of war or of civilian criminals.
Depuis deux ans, les 660 hommes et jeunes hommes du camp Delta se voient dénier les droits des prisonniers de guerre ou des détenus de droit civil.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 529471
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
Je leur donnerai des jeunes gens pour chefs, Et des enfants domineront sur eux.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 3:4The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Ces enfants grandirent. Ésaü devint un habile chasseur, un homme des champs; mais Jacob fut un homme tranquille, qui restait sous les tentes.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 25:27The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
Le roi d’Égypte appela les sages-femmes, et leur dit: Pourquoi avez-vous agi ainsi, et avez-vous laissé vivre les enfants?
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 1:18
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