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# class — English to French

How English *class* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: class (55 222), classes (22 725). By style: everyday 667 · literary 15 · parliamentary 1 880 · legal and administrative 17 299 · UN documents 58 086.

## classe

Used about 45 800 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 208 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 018 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 893 · UN documents ≈ 32 673). Forms: classe, classes.

- I am **class** president.
  Je suis le chef de **classe**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9030409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9030409) [\#11969010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11969010))

- One is not a **class** because one has committed a fault.
  On n'est pas une **classe** parce qu'on fait une faute.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18113)

- Some evidently want to be second **class**.
  D'aucuns souhaitent à l'évidence appartenir à la deuxième **classe**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 947234)

- **Classes** III 愦灭;amp; B
  **Classes** III 愦灭;amp; B
  ([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 5539064)

- The four **classes** are the following:
  Voici les quatre **classes** :
  ([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 30335284)

## catégories

Used about 18 134 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 137 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 685 · UN documents ≈ 13 311). Forms: catégorie, catégories.

- The disaster mainly hit the grass-roots **classes**.
  La catastrophe a principalement touché les **catégories** sociales les plus défavorisées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 643409)

- Describe the type and the **class** of the shares
  Décrire la nature et la **catégorie** des actions.
  ([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 437902)

- Strawberries in this **class** must be of good quality.
  Les fraises classées dans cette **catégorie** doivent être de bonne qualité.
  ([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 9793257)

- Coming from Poland as you do, you will know what it means to have different **classes** of people and parliamentarians.
  Venant de Pologne, vous savez ce qu'implique le fait d'avoir différentes **catégories** de personnes et de parlementaires.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1368732)

- Foreign exchange derivatives — **classes** not having a liquid market
  Dérivés de change — **catégories** n'ayant pas un marché liquide
  ([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 4294982)

## cours

Used about 7 827 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 410 · parliamentary ≈ 157 · UN documents ≈ 7 261).

- My **class** was canceled.
  Mon **cours** fut annulé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2028499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2028499) [\#1891796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1891796))

- Physical education **classes** are also very important.
  Autre élément primordial: les **cours** d'éducation physique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1138784)

- of test applicants Minimum number of **classes**
  Nombre minimum d &apos; heures de **cours**
  ([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 5519742)

- My **class** was cancelled.
  Mon **cours** fut annulé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1891238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1891238) [\#1891796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1891796))

- In Barcelona, the majority of **classes** are taught in Catalan.
  À Barcelone la plupart des **cours** sont donnés en catalan.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 507201)

## More sentences

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

- He's a world-**class** scientist.
  C'est un scientifique de niveau international.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1619581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1619581) [\#1623774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1623774))

- I have to take some photos for my **class** project.
  Il me faut prendre des photos pour mon élocution.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cruzedu73 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1169631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1169631) [\#2443550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2443550))

- We call upon over twenty-five years of experience in creating first **class** business solutions.
  Nous nous appuyons sur vingt-cinq ans d'expérience dans la création de solutions de premier plan pour la gestion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2127755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2127755) [\#2127757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2127757))

## 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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