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# border — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: border (98 154), borders (32 847). By style: everyday 96 · literary 7 · biblical 207 · parliamentary 16 561 · legal and administrative 19 497 · UN documents 94 633.

## frontières

Used about 83 102 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 78 · biblical ≈ 41 · parliamentary ≈ 10 696 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 170 · UN documents ≈ 61 117). Forms: frontière, frontières.

- Down with **borders**!
  À bas les **frontières** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#8235000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8235000) [\#8235196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8235196))

- “You are to pass over Ar, the **border** of Moab, today.
  Tu passeras aujourd’hui la **frontière** de Moab, à Ar,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 2:18)

- Transport knows no **borders**.
  Le trafic ne connaît pas de **frontières**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 252852)

- Crossing of external **borders**
  Franchissement des **frontières** extérieures
  ([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 3958143)

- F. Delineation of **borders**
  F. Délimitation des **frontières**
  ([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 26791544)

## israël

Used about 28 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 28).

- So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the **borders** of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
  On chercha dans tout le territoire d’**Israël** une fille jeune et belle, et on trouva Abischag, la Sunamite, que l’on conduisit auprès du roi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 1:3)

- They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the **borders** of Israel,
  Ils répondirent au roi: Puisque cet homme nous a consumés, et qu’il avait le projet de nous détruire pour nous faire disparaître de tout le territoire d’**Israël**,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 21:5)

- So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its **borders**. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
  Lorsqu’ils eurent achevé de faire le partage du pays, d’après ses limites, les enfants d’**Israël** donnèrent à Josué, fils de Nun, une possession au milieu d’eux.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 19:49)

- The Lord GOD says: “This shall be the **border** by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
  Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Voici les limites du pays que vous distribuerez en héritage aux douze tribus d’**Israël**. Joseph aura deux parts.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 47:13)

- So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the **border** of Israel. The LORD’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
  Ainsi les Philistins furent humiliés, et ils ne vinrent plus sur le territoire d’**Israël**. La main de l’Éternel fut contre les Philistins pendant toute la vie de Samuel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 7:13)

## More sentences

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

- We camped on the **border** of the lake.
  Nous campâmes au bord du lac.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Erwan29200 · checked, community translation · [\#23194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23194) [\#749363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749363))

- We camped on the **border** of the lake.
  Nous avons campé au bord du lac.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Erwan29200 · checked, community translation · [\#23194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23194) [\#749364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749364))

- California and Nevada **border** on each other.
  La Californie et le Nevada se jouxtent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#63511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/63511) [\#801310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801310))

## 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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