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# children — English to French

How English *children* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: children (713 293), childrens (86). By style: everyday 1 741 · literary 82 · biblical 1 479 · parliamentary 13 400 · legal and administrative 5 543 · UN documents 691 134.

## enfants

Used about 451 203 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 705 · literary ≈ 77 · biblical ≈ 955 · parliamentary ≈ 11 725 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 782 · UN documents ≈ 431 959).

- Some **children** are hungry.
  Des **enfants** ont faim.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12250555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12250555) [\#11948040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11948040))

- “Had they any **children**?”
  --En a-t-il eu des **enfants**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 205)

- both young men and maidens, old men and **children**.
  Jeunes hommes et jeunes filles, Vieillards et **enfants**!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 148:12)

- What are we going to do with our **children**?
  Que va-t-on faire avec nos **enfants**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1928949)

- Bicycles for young **children**
  Bicyclette pour jeunes **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 2291376)

## More sentences

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

- She was anxious about her **children**'s health.
  Elle se faisait des soucis pour la santé de son enfant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#313984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/313984) [\#134337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134337))

- and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the **children** of Hamor of Shechem.
  et ils furent transportés à Sichem, et déposés dans le sépulcre qu’Abraham avait acheté, à prix d’argent, des fils d’Hémor, père de Sichem.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 7:16)

- The **children** of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
  les fils d’Élam, mille deux cent cinquante-quatre;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 2:7)

## 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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