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# back — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: back (72 151), backs (1 671). By style: everyday 3 288 · literary 194 · biblical 294 · parliamentary 15 184 · legal and administrative 6 875 · UN documents 47 987.

## dos

Used about 10 142 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 809 · literary ≈ 40 · biblical ≈ 71 · parliamentary ≈ 3 005 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 217 · UN documents ≈ 4 999).

- Don't talk about people behind their **backs**.
  Ne parle pas des gens derrière leurs **dos**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#240177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240177) [\#8687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8687))

- And he straightened up his crooked **back**.
  Et il redressa son **dos** voûté.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31626)

- Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the **backs** of fools.
  Les châtiments sont prêts pour les moqueurs, Et les coups pour le **dos** des insensés.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 19:29)

- We cannot turn our **backs** on Belarus.
  Nous ne pouvons tourner le **dos** au Belarus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1200531)

- **Back** to **back** distance (AR)
  Distance **dos** à dos (AR)
  ([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 2909979)

## More sentences

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

- He didn't come **back** in the end.
  Finalement il n'est pas revenu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#291968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291968) [\#131232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131232))

- Did you take him **back** to your apartment?
  L'avez-vous ramené à votre appartement ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1943944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1943944) [\#1945376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1945376))

- I'd like to know when you plan to give me **back** the scissors I lent you.
  J'aimerais savoir quand tu as l'intention de me rendre les ciseaux que je t'ai prêtés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#953773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953773) [\#955725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/955725))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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