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# boys — English to French

How English *boys* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: boys (27 365). By style: everyday 275 · literary 8 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 240 · legal and administrative 1 506 · UN documents 25 331.

## garçons

Used about 22 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 275 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 135 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 506 · UN documents ≈ 20 581). Forms: garçonnets, garçons.

- It's a **boys**' club.
  C'est un cercle de **garçons**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1737355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737355) [\#1737725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737725))

- The little **boys** stared at him in surprise.
  Les petits **garçons** le regardèrent interdits.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20606)

- The streets of the city will be full of **boys** and girls playing in its streets.”
  Les rues de la ville seront remplies de jeunes **garçons** et de jeunes filles, jouant dans les rues.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 8:5)

- Men, girls and **boys**, are also involved.
  Nous parlons également d'hommes, de filles et de **garçons**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 55209)

- Men's or **boys**'
  pour hommes ou **garçonnets**
  ([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 3010749)

## filles

Used about 529 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 528).

- And the crowd burst into a laugh, especially the **boys** and young girls.
  Et la foule de rire, surtout les enfants et les jeunes **filles**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3444)

- 202. According to the following table, there was a nearly balanced tendency in the transition between **boys** and girls with, however, a slight predominance of girls.
  202. Comme indiqué dans le tableau ci-dessous, le taux de passage du premier au deuxième cycle était relativement équilibré pour les deux sexes, malgré une légère prédominance des **filles**.
  ([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 24354323)

## hommes

Used about 20 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20).

- Within five days 7 000 men and **boys** were brutally murdered.
  En cinq jours, 7 000 **hommes** et jeunes gens ont été brutalement assassinés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 706518)

- This process involves wide **boys** acting in cahoots with the country's politicians to dupe entrepreneurs.
  Dans ce processus, les arnaqueurs sont de mèche avec les **hommes** politiques du pays pour duper les entrepreneurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1423045)

- We must move away from the perception of an 'all **boys** club' to a more representative grouping running the EU.
  Nous devons réformer cette image d'un "club réservé aux **hommes**" à un groupe plus représentatif dirigeant l'UE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037960)

- For two years the 660 men and **boys** in Camp Delta have been denied the rights of prisoners of war or of civilian criminals.
  Depuis deux ans, les 660 **hommes** et jeunes hommes du camp Delta se voient dénier les droits des prisonniers de guerre ou des détenus de droit civil.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 529471)

## More sentences

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

- I will give **boys** to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
  Je leur donnerai des jeunes gens pour chefs, Et des enfants domineront sur eux.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 3:4)

- The **boys** grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  Ces enfants grandirent. Ésaü devint un habile chasseur, un homme des champs; mais Jacob fut un homme tranquille, qui restait sous les tentes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 25:27)

- The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the **boys** alive?”
  Le roi d’Égypte appela les sages-femmes, et leur dit: Pourquoi avez-vous agi ainsi, et avez-vous laissé vivre les enfants?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 1:18)

## Grammar

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