mère — French to English

How French mère 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: mère (34 787), mères (19 690). By style: everyday 1 955 · literary 203 · biblical 283 · parliamentary 1 360 · legal and administrative 5 115 · UN documents 45 561.

mother

Used about 38 738 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 580 · literary ≈ 196 · biblical ≈ 283 · parliamentary ≈ 1 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 332 · UN documents ≈ 34 171). Forms: mother, mothers. Meaning: mother in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ma mère va bien.

  My mother is fine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · #9161445 #9165769

• --Oui, dit la mère.

  “Yes,” said the mother.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17028

• Nous sommes orphelins, sans père; Nos mères sont comme des veuves.

  We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 5:3

• Une mère reste une mère !

  Mother will always be mother.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209257

• Âge de la mère

  Age of the mother

  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 3261103

child

Used about 3 349 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 3 322). Forms: child, children. Meaning: child in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Comment consoler une mère qui vient de perdre son seul enfant ?

  How do you console a woman who has just lost her only child?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #676326 #809021

• b) s ' il a abandonné sa femme et si l ' enfant est à la charge de la mère;

  If he has deserted his wife and the child is in her charge;

  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 11841103

• Le taux d ' activité des mères, quel que soit leur degré d ' instruction, a fortement augmenté.

  Biggest increases in labour force participation among women with children at all education levels

  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 29676817

• 804. Peu de temps après l ' indépendance, la protection sanitaire de la mère et de l ' enfant a été élevée au rang de politique d ' État.

  804. Shortly after independence, maternal and child health protection was elevated to State policy rank.

  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 26244049

• M. Francisco Songane, ancien Ministre de la santé du Mozambique, ancien Directeur du Partenariat pour la santé de la mère, du nouveau-né et de l ' enfant

  Mr. Francisco Songane, former Minister of Health, Mozambique, former Director of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child 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 20733971

parent

Used about 2 343 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 812 · UN documents ≈ 475). Meaning: parent in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils limiteront les mesures aux groupes disposant d'une relation entre société mère et filiales.

  They will limit the measures to groups with a parent/subsidiary relationship only.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 304052

• Beau-parent (partenaire du père ou de la mère — élevé)

  Step-parent (high level)

  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 4588840

• 36. Ainsi, on peut dire que la KNPC était simplement chargée de la transformation d ' hydrocarbures pour le compte de la KPC, société mère.

  Thus, KNPC can be best described as being merely a processor of hydrocarbons for its parent company, KPC.

  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 9656255

• C'est une nouvelle initiative qui fait suite à d'autres actions menées dans le passé et qui est soutenue par une action mère datant de 1996.

  This is a new initiative following on from other actions taken in the past and based on a parent action in 1996.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 349816

• Attribuable aux propriétaires de la société mère

  Attributable to owners of the parent

  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 4377958

father

Used about 14 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14). Meaning: father in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je parle d'expérience, parce que mon père a souffert d'Alzheimer, tout comme ma grand-mère et j'espère rompre cette lignée génétique.

  I speak from experience, because my father suffered from Alzheimer's, as did my grandmother, and I hope to end the genetic line.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1475585

More sentences

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

• Je n'arrive pas à croire que votre mère vous aie laissées vous en aller.

  I can't believe your mom let you go.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1950932 #1984238

• Sa grand-mère a l'air en bonne santé.

  His grandmother looks healthy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #285280 #1273226

• Ma grand-mère a posté la lettre ce matin.

  My grandmother posted the letter this morning.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and sundown · checked, community translation · #62592 #335453

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