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# chad — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: chad (21 697), chads (1). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 479 · legal and administrative 331 · UN documents 20 886.

## tchad

Used about 21 601 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 430 · legal and administrative ≈ 283 · UN documents ≈ 20 886). Forms: tchad, tchadien.

- Lake **Chad** continues to shrink.
  Le lac **Tchad** continue de rétrécir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#4476846](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4476846) [\#12423344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12423344))

- Electoral fraud in **Chad**
  Fraude électorale au **Tchad**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 208321)

- Has left **Chad** for Sabha.
  A quitté le **Tchad** pour Sabha.
  ([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 3510915)

- **Chad** made a recommendation.
  Le **Tchad** a fait une recommandation.
  ([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 24036431)

- Lake **Chad** is continuing to shrink.
  Le lac **Tchad** continue de rétrécir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#4442922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4442922) [\#12423344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12423344))

## More sentences

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

- We think that the governments of **Chad** and Sudan should be put under increased pressure to fulfil the obligations they undertook in various agreements.
  Nous pensons que ces gouvernements devraient être mis davantage sous pression pour qu'ils respectent les obligations souscrites dans différents accords.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1050611)

- We have spoken to the representatives of **Chad**, as Mr Bowis has already mentioned.
  Comme mon collègue, M. Bowis, l' a déjà signalé, nous nous sommes entretenus avec les représentants tchadiens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 208383)

- At the beginning of February the **Chad** rebels advanced on the capital N'Djamena and took the larger part of it.
  Au début février, les rebelles tchadiens ont avancé vers la capitale N'Djamena et en ont envahi la majeure partie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1050605)

## 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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