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# banks — English to French

How English *banks* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: banks (35 459). By style: everyday 38 · literary 8 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 3 191 · legal and administrative 10 805 · UN documents 21 411.

## banques

Used about 31 409 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 3 191 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 905 · UN documents ≈ 18 289). Forms: banque, banques.

- I don't believe in **banks**.
  Je ne crois pas aux **banques**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2275959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2275959) [\#2420672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2420672))

- 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)

- Offshore **banks** are not permitted to:
  Les **banques** offshore ne sont pas autorisées à:
  ([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 320507)

- (b) Poverty-oriented **banks**
  b) **Banques** desservant les pauvres
  ([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 1534859)

- I don't trust **banks**.
  Je ne fais pas confiance aux **banques**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3826374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3826374) [\#11965267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11965267))

## More sentences

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

- The river has burst its **banks**.
  La rivière est sortie de son lit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#10013002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10013002) [\#6054179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6054179))

- The river burst its **banks** and swept the vehicles away.
  La rivière est sortie de son lit et a emporté les véhicules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8281832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8281832) [\#13221867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13221867))

- The river overflowed its **banks** and flooded the fields around it.
  La rivière a débordé et inondé les champs qui l'entouraient.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2883336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2883336) [\#7811475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7811475))

## 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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