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# abroad — English to French

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

What it means: [abroad in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/abroad/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: abroad (30 101), abroads (1). By style: everyday 267 · literary 4 · biblical 29 · parliamentary 1 283 · legal and administrative 1 235 · UN documents 27 284.

## étranger

Used about 20 307 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 261 · parliamentary ≈ 1 069 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 158 · UN documents ≈ 17 818).

- I want to go **abroad**.
  Je veux partir à l'**étranger**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#21938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21938) [\#181493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181493))

- They are continuing with tobacco imported from **abroad**.
  Il continue avec du tabac qui est importé de l'**étranger**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1313361)

- ‘Direct investment **abroad** (DIA)
  «Investissement direct à l'**étranger**
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3999472)

- Torture and ill-treatment of Canadians detained **abroad**
  Torture et mauvais traitement sur des canadiens détenus à l &apos; **étranger**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25876633)

- She has gone **abroad**.
  Elle est allée à l'**étranger**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#312976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312976) [\#15592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15592))

## More sentences

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

- For studying **abroad**, I can't decide whether I should go to Australia or Canada.
  Je ne sais pas si je devrais aller étudier en Australie ou au Canada.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#325479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325479) [\#390257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390257))

- Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them **abroad**,
  Parce que vous avez heurté avec le côté et avec l’épaule, et frappé de vos cornes toutes les brebis faibles, jusqu’à ce que vous les ayez chassées,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 34:21)

- So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread **abroad** among the Jews, and continues until today.
  Les soldats prirent l’argent, et suivirent les instructions qui leur furent données. Et ce bruit s’est répandu parmi les Juifs, jusqu’à ce jour.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 28:15)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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