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# bank — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: bank (145 245), banks (35 459). By style: everyday 356 · literary 32 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 10 679 · legal and administrative 36 258 · UN documents 133 363.

## banque

Used about 132 490 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 265 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 9 678 · legal and administrative ≈ 29 460 · UN documents ≈ 93 076). Forms: banque, banques.

- Where's the **bank**?
  Où est la **banque** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and fucongcong · checked, community translation · [\#508288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/508288) [\#504871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/504871))

- So saying, he handed the stranger the three **bank**-bills.
  En parlant ainsi, il tendait à l'étranger les trois billets de **banque**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9205)

- Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the **bank**, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
  pourquoi donc n’as-tu pas mis mon argent dans une **banque**, afin qu’à mon retour je le retirasse avec un intérêt?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 19:23)

- They use private **banks**.
  Elles recourent aux **banques** privées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 809563)

- CENTRAL **BANK** OF IRAN
  CENTRAL BANK OF IRAN (**BANQUE** CENTRALE D'IRAN)
  ([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 3531955)

## More sentences

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

- If you owe your **bank** manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
  Si vous devez mille livres à votre banquier, vous êtes à sa merci, mais si vous lui devez un million de livres, il est à la vôtre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#845565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/845565) [\#845570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/845570))

- That **bank** vault is impenetrable.
  Cette chambre forte est impénétrable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11696399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11696399) [\#12662886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12662886))

- A man was fishing on the opposite **bank**.
  Un homme pêchait sur la rive opposée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#715724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/715724) [\#13251618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13251618))

## 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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