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# child — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: child (377 124), childs (43). By style: everyday 866 · literary 174 · biblical 164 · parliamentary 4 121 · legal and administrative 5 803 · UN documents 366 039.

## enfant

Used about 238 888 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 776 · literary ≈ 156 · biblical ≈ 116 · parliamentary ≈ 3 606 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 957 · UN documents ≈ 229 277). Forms: enfant, enfants.

- You're a **child**.
  Tu es une **enfant**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2549576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549576) [\#7763128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7763128))

- “Give me back my **child**!”
  --Rends-moi mon **enfant**!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8408)

- They killed the bull, and brought the **child** to Eli.
  Ils égorgèrent les taureaux, et ils conduisirent l’**enfant** à Éli.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 1:25)

- I refuse to be treated as a **child**.
  Je refuse d'être traité comme un **enfant**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1815785)

- CRS **Child** restraint system
  DRE Dispositif de retenue pour **enfants**
  ([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 5492498)

## retenue

Used about 4 143 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 121 · UN documents ≈ 4 022).

- GEOMETRICAL DIMENSIONS OF I-SIZE **CHILD** RESTRAINT SYSTEMS
  DIMENSIONS DU MANNEQUIN POUR DISPOSITIFS DE **RETENUE** DE TYPE I-SIZE
  ([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 5525322)

- Proposal for Supplement 3 to Regulation No. 129 (Enhanced **Child** Restraint Systems (ECRS))
  Proposition de complément 3 au Règlement no 129 (Dispositifs renforcés de **retenue**
  ([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 28105183)

## More sentences

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

- He excelled in music even as a **child**.
  Depuis tout petit, il est doué pour la musique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#297116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297116) [\#3474153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3474153))

- You are acting like a three-year-old **child**.
  Tu agis comme un gamin de 3 ans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and sbamsbamsbam · checked, community translation · [\#4071185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4071185) [\#4081077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4081077))

- I've known him since I was a **child**.
  Je le connais depuis l'enfance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5084211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5084211) [\#12942356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12942356))

## 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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