femmes — French to English

How French femmes is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: femmes (763 657). By style: everyday 494 · literary 67 · biblical 286 · parliamentary 22 744 · legal and administrative 5 258 · UN documents 734 808.

women

Used about 621 706 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 453 · literary ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 131 · parliamentary ≈ 19 427 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 601 · UN documents ≈ 597 032).

• 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 #3636872

• Il 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 25624

• Fils 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 23:2

• Quatrièmement, 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 1511040

• Manteaux, 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

there

Used about 15 326 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 15 309). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il n'y a que trois femmes de chambre dans cet hôtel.

  There are only three maids in this hotel.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sharptoothed · checked, community translation · #2763390 #12214396

• Pris en soi, et idéalement, et pour tourner autour de la vérité jusqu'à épuisement impartial de tous les aspects, le monastère, le couvent de femmes surtout, car dans notre société c'est la femme qui souffre le plus, et dans cet exil du cloître il y a de la protestation, le couvent de femmes a incontestablement une certaine majesté.

  Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, the female convent in particular,—for in our century it is woman who suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something of protestation,—the female convent has incontestably a certain majesty.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11161

• de deux femmes qui moudront ensemble, l’une sera prise et l’autre laissée.

  There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 17:35

• Toutefois, des accouchements aidés par des sages-femmes qualifiées ont encore lieu dans des centres sanitaires et à domicile.

  However, there are still a few at home and health centre deliveries by nurse mid-wives.

  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 13442758

men

Used about 15 309 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 15 309). 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

wives

Used about 141 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 131).

• Les 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

• Maris, aimez vos femmes, et ne vous aigrissez pas contre elles.

  Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · COL 3:19

• Jacob se leva, et il fit monter ses enfants et ses femmes sur les chameaux.

  Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 31:17

• David avait aussi pris Achinoam de Jizreel, et toutes les deux furent ses femmes.

  David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 25:43

• Toutes les autres familles, chaque famille séparément, Et les femmes à part.

  all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 12:14

More sentences

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

• L'attrait des femmes pour la minceur est puissant.

  Young girls' desire for slim figures is strong.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Erwan29200 and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #33418 #747543

• Je ne connais aucune de ces cinq femmes.

  I don't know any of the five ladies.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #252596 #7483

• Ces choses sont allégoriques; car ces femmes sont deux alliances. L’une du mont Sinaï, enfantant pour la servitude, c’est Agar,

  These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:24

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