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# agents — English to French

How English *agents* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: agents (28 410). By style: everyday 1 · literary 4 · parliamentary 815 · legal and administrative 5 590 · UN documents 22 000.

## agents

Used about 26 031 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 509 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 891 · UN documents ≈ 20 625).

- Is it possible to reproduce 70 copies of your report which appeared in the November issue of The Network and distribute them to our **agents**?
  Est-il possible de réaliser 70 copies de votre rapport paru dans « Le Réseau » de novembre et de les distribuer à nos **agents** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Catriona and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#35787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35787) [\#967728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967728))

- The policemen and **agents** recoiled.
  Les sergents de ville et les **agents** reculèrent.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17878)

- Brokers in the arms trade are quite unique **agents**.
  Les courtiers en armements sont des **agents** très spéciaux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 502642)

- Resistance to chemical **agents**
  Résistance aux **agents** chimiques
  ([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 5525870)

- Atmospheric **agents** (A.6, para. 2.2.1.)
  Atmospheric **agents** (A.6, para. 2.2.1.)
  ([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 22913710)

## chimiques

Used about 34 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34).

- We therefore hope to see a move soon from the Commission on chemical **agents**.
  C'est pourquoi nous espérons que la Commission soumettra prochainement une proposition sur les produits **chimiques**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610518)

- It appears strange for special rules to be laid down when the general basis regarding chemical **agents** is not yet in place.
  Il paraît étrange d'adopter une réglementation particulière alors que l'on n'a pas encore mis en place de base plus large relative aux produits **chimiques**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610516)

## résistance

Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17).

- We acknowledged, by voting in favour of the Khanbhai report, that resistance to anti-malarial **agents** was one of the causes of malaria-related deaths.
  On a reconnu, en votant le rapport Khanbhai, que la **résistance** aux antipaludéens était une des causes de la mortalité liée au paludisme.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 246811)

## More sentences

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

- Furthermore, fertilising and plant-protection **agents** and animal feed used in the production of agricultural and forestry products must also count as raw materials.
  De plus, les engrais, produits phytosanitaires et aliments pour bétail qui sont utilisés pour la production de produits agricoles et forestiers doivent aussi être repris parmi les matières premières.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1909742)

- It used to be the major sports clubs that bought and sold people, now it is the **agents**.
  Avant, c'étaient les grands clubs sportifs qui se livraient précédemment au commerce d'êtres humains, aujourd'hui ce sont ces courtiers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1733140)

- There is a risk that people will become resistant to important drugs if they eat products treated with growth promoting **agents**.
  Les hommes pourraient développer des résistances à des médicaments importants s'ils consomment ces produits traités aux stimulateurs de croissance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1811551)

## 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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