femme — French to English
How French femme is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.
The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: femme (138 586), femmes (763 657). By style: everyday 2 222 · literary 245 · biblical 973 · parliamentary 26 708 · legal and administrative 5 592 · UN documents 866 503.
women
Used about 653 521 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 042 · literary ≈ 117 · biblical ≈ 233 · parliamentary ≈ 16 693 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 612 · UN documents ≈ 631 825).
Ces femmes sont fortes.
Those women are strong.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #2898095 #3636872Il est question des femmes.
It is a question of women.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25624Fils de l’homme, il y avait deux femmes, Filles d’une même mère.
“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 23:2Quatrièmement, les droits des femmes.
Fourthly, women's rights.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1511040Manteaux, etc., pour femmes ou fillettes
Women's or girls' overcoats, etc.
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 946337
woman
Used about 88 157 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 509 · literary ≈ 66 · biblical ≈ 213 · parliamentary ≈ 5 842 · legal and administrative ≈ 291 · UN documents ≈ 81 235). Meaning: woman in the Elamur Dictionary.
Qui est cette femme-là ?
Who's that woman?
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vee and CK · checked, community translation · #6440582 #1357983--Une femme, sans doute?
“A woman, I suppose.”
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1390Cette femme devint enceinte, et elle fit dire à David: Je suis enceinte.
The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 11:5Deux s'avérèrent chrétiens, la femme et son fils.
Two turned out to be Christians, the woman and her son.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 276327d'une femme mariée, ou
a married woman, or
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 669189
wife
Used about 19 536 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 532 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 243 · parliamentary ≈ 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 117 · UN documents ≈ 18 052). Meaning: wife in the Elamur Dictionary.
Ma femme m'a quitté.
My wife has left me.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · #6273848 #4187101--Ça? dit la femme.
“That one?” said his wife.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16650Que ta source soit bénie, Et fais ta joie de la femme de ta jeunesse,
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 5:18Je chéris ma femme, j'aime beaucoup mes beaux-parents, je leur rends fréquemment visite au Japon et ils viennent me rendre visite.
I adore my wife. I hold my parents-in-law very dear;
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 443476Familles constituées d'un couple mari/femme
Husband/wife couple families
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 4288568
children
Used about 9 540 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 61 · parliamentary ≈ 278 · legal and administrative ≈ 175 · UN documents ≈ 9 026).
dans le but d’apprendre aux jeunes femmes à aimer leurs maris et leurs enfants,
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 2:4En tant que femme politique, je connais la difficulté d'expliquer à ses propres électeurs pourquoi, par exemple, leurs voisins prennent davantage soin de leurs enfants.
As a politician I know how difficult it is to explain to one's own electorate why for example one's neighbours care about children more.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1018432La masse des passagers, la catégorie de passager (homme, femme, enfant) et le numéro de vol doivent être relevés pour chaque vol inclus dans la campagne de pesée.
For each flight included in the survey the mass of the passengers, the corresponding passenger category (i.e. male/female/children) and the flight number must be recorded.
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 147059798. Aux Philippines, par rapports familiaux, on entend ceux entre mari et femme, entre parents et enfants, entre frères et soeurs ou demi-frères et demi-soeurs.
In the Philippines, family relations include those between husband and wife; between parents and children; among full or half brothers and sisters.
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 1051589Tous ceux-là avaient pris des femmes étrangères, et plusieurs en avaient eu des enfants.
All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 10:44
men
Used about 9 026 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 9 026). Meaning: men in the Elamur Dictionary.
Il s’agira notamment d’insister sur le rôle des hommes et des partenariats hommes-femmes, plus particulièrement pour ce qui concerne la santé en matière de reproduction.
This includes a focus on the role of men and the importance of partnership, in particular in reproductive health.
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 6192354
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Elle est sage-femme.
She's a midwife.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2327278 #927321La femme qui parle avec ce garçon est son professeur.
The lady that is speaking to that boy is his teacher.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and CK · checked, community translation · #67982 #1633355Les algériens voilent leurs femmes mais les trompent aussi.
Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #8135012 #8135013
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