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# across — English to French

How English *across* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: across (69 661). By style: everyday 321 · literary 29 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 7 693 · legal and administrative 5 671 · UN documents 55 934.

## travers

Used about 6 982 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 641 · legal and administrative ≈ 473 · UN documents ≈ 5 826).

- I'll travel **across** Europe by bicycle this summer.
  Je voyagerai à **travers** l'Europe en vélo, cet été.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#60199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60199) [\#1051039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1051039))

- She rose in alarm, and saw by the light of the moon, a shapeless mass lying **across** her door on the outside.
  Effrayée, elle se leva, et vit à la lumière de la lune une masse informe couchée en **travers** devant sa porte.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6358)

- The EURES portal was launched in 2006 and offers one million job vacancies **across** Europe.
  Le portail EURES a été lancé en 2006 et propose un million d'offres d'emploi à **travers** l'Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 955382)

- Within lines drawn **across** the east and west entrances to the Harbour
  Dans les limites de lignes tracées en **travers** des entrées est et ouest du port
  ([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 3904715)

- **Across** the region, some 1.1 billion workers remain in vulnerable employment.
  À **travers** la région, environ 1,1 milliard de travailleurs occupe un emploi précaire.
  ([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 24426514)

## ensemble

Used about 5 116 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 321 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 300 · UN documents ≈ 3 496).

- He is absolutely right to reject the 10% **across** the board crude reduction in development lines.
  Il a parfaitement raison de rejeter la réduction linéaire de 10 % qui touche l'**ensemble** des lignes du développement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2019735)

- Chief of General staff. Responsible for the use of violence against protestors **across** Syria.
  Chef d'état-major général; responsable du recours à la violence exercée contre des manifestants sur l'**ensemble** du territoire syrien.
  ([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 2915885)

- I have opened a dialogue with the public by attending the debates that continue to take place **across** the country.
  J &apos; ai inauguré un dialogue avec la population en participant aux débats sur la question qui continuent d &apos; être organisés dans l &apos; **ensemble** du pays.
  ([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 19512496)

- We have learned, for instance, that around 6 000 agents are active **across** the Member States in all disciplines.
  Nous avons appris, par exemple, qu'environ 6 000 agents sont en activité dans l'**ensemble** des États membres pour toutes les disciplines.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1402689)

- Such networks have enormous potential to deliver benefits to consumers and businesses **across** the European Union.
  De tels réseaux offrent un potentiel énorme pour ce qui est de procurer des avantages aux consommateurs et aux entreprises dans l’**ensemble** de l’Union européenne.
  ([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 1776887)

## More sentences

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

- They biked **across** Europe.
  Elles ont traversé l'Europe à vélo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#9096997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9096997) [\#1919601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1919601))

- If you come **across** my book, will you send it to me?
  Si par hasard tu trouvais mon livre, me l'enverras-tu ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#251886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251886) [\#2058712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2058712))

- Do you think it's dangerous for me to swim **across** the river?
  Pensez-vous qu'il soit dangereux, pour moi, de traverser la rivière à la nage ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1474467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1474467) [\#8054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8054))

## 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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