family — English to French

How English family is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: family in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: families (116 919), family (235 269). By style: everyday 1 027 · literary 42 · biblical 249 · parliamentary 9 957 · legal and administrative 7 462 · UN documents 333 451.

famille

Used about 241 132 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 006 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 241 · parliamentary ≈ 7 779 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 296 · UN documents ≈ 225 774). Forms: famille, familles.

• I love my family.

  J'adore ma famille.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2184219 #1087459

• That is deserting one’s family.

  C'est déserter la famille, cela.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25636

• from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

  duquel tire son nom toute famille dans les cieux et sur la terre,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 3:15

• The traditional family is no longer the norm.

  La famille traditionnelle n'est plus la norme.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 316524

• Name of family member

  Nom de ce membre de la famille

  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 3250732

leur

Used about 3 580 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 104 · UN documents ≈ 3 473).

• They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.

  il recevra pour sa nourriture une portion égale à la leur, et jouira, en outre, des revenus de la vente de son patrimoine.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 18:8

• Furthermore, women are still central to the family unit.

  Par ailleurs, les femmes demeurent un acteur central dans leur unité familiale.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1053305

• Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families [General Assembly resolution 45/158]b

  Comité pour la protection des droits de tous les travailleurs migrants et des membres de leur familleb [résolution 45/158 de l ' Assemblée générale]

  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 11371685

enfants

Used about 3 577 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 104 · UN documents ≈ 3 473).

• The selling of children amounts to a counterproductive waste of a country’s potential, undermining the very meaning of family support.

  La vente d’enfants représente un gaspillage contre-productif du potentiel d’un pays et sape le concept même de soutien familial.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 854246

• The social, moral, and emotional protection of minor children can be assured even outside of any family situation.

  La protection sociale, morale et affective des enfants mineurs peut être assurée même en dehors d ' un environnement familial.

  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 8971612

More sentences

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

• I'm the baby of the family.

  Je suis le petit dernier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gillux · checked, community translation · #2226681 #3638670

• "I'm hearing voices," said Tom. "Aren't we all?" replied the family cat.

  « J'entends des voix. », dit Tom. « N'est-ce pas le cas pour tout le monde ? », répondit le chat de la maison.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and GB3 · checked, community translation · #6608133 #6608239

• Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

  Viens, faisons boire du vin à notre père, et couchons avec lui, afin que nous conservions la race de notre père.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 19:32

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