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# borders — English to French

How English *borders* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: borders (32 847). By style: everyday 36 · literary 3 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 7 053 · legal and administrative 3 680 · UN documents 22 027.

## frontières

Used about 25 086 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 6 318 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 143 · UN documents ≈ 15 602).

- 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))

- For the cry has gone around the **borders** of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
  Car les cris environnent les **frontières** de Moab; Ses lamentations retentissent jusqu’à Églaïm, Ses lamentations retentissent jusqu’à Beer-Élim.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 15:8)

- 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 471 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 12 · UN documents ≈ 459).

- In those days the LORD began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the **borders** of Israel
  Dans ce temps-là, l’Éternel commença à entamer le territoire d’**Israël**; et Hazaël les battit sur toute la frontière 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 · 2KI 10:32)

- 37. Following the incursion, the **borders** with Israel were also completely closed.
  Après l &apos; incursion, les points de passage se trouvant sur la frontière séparant **Israël** de la bande de Gaza ont tous été fermés.
  ([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 21369583)

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Algeria **borders** the Mediterranean Sea.
  L'Algérie borde la Mer Méditerranée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#12106758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12106758) [\#12495062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12495062))

- The United States **borders** Canada.
  Les États-Unis partagent une frontière avec le Canada.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and adjusting · checked, community translation · [\#67546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67546) [\#482345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/482345))

- Germany **borders** the Netherlands.
  L'Allemagne jouxte les Pays-Bas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and aimablealpaga · checked, community translation · [\#3494961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3494961) [\#430916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430916))

## 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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