children — English to French

How English children is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: children (713 293), childrens (86). By style: everyday 1 741 · literary 82 · biblical 1 479 · parliamentary 13 400 · legal and administrative 5 543 · UN documents 691 134.

enfants

Used about 451 203 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 705 · literary ≈ 77 · biblical ≈ 955 · parliamentary ≈ 11 725 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 782 · UN documents ≈ 431 959).

• Some children are hungry.

  Des enfants ont faim.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Rovo · checked, community translation · #12250555 #11948040

• “Had they any children?”

  --En a-t-il eu des enfants?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 205

• both young men and maidens, old men and children.

  Jeunes hommes et jeunes filles, Vieillards et enfants!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 148:12

• What are we going to do with our children?

  Que va-t-on faire avec nos enfants?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1928949

• Bicycles for young children

  Bicyclette pour jeunes enfants

  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 2291376

More sentences

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

• She was anxious about her children's health.

  Elle se faisait des soucis pour la santé de son enfant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · #313984 #134337

• and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

  et ils furent transportés à Sichem, et déposés dans le sépulcre qu’Abraham avait acheté, à prix d’argent, des fils d’Hémor, père de Sichem.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 7:16

• The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

  les fils d’Élam, mille deux cent cinquante-quatre;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 2:7

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