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# classes — English to French

How English *classes* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: classes (22 725). By style: everyday 86 · literary 6 · parliamentary 556 · legal and administrative 4 372 · UN documents 17 705.

## classes

Used about 11 283 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 336 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 824 · UN documents ≈ 8 115). Forms: classe, classes.

- We have too many **classes**.
  Nous avons trop de **classes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adjusting and adjusting · checked, community translation · [\#247872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/247872) [\#493618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/493618))

- In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy of the dejected **classes** vanishes.
  Au dix-huitième siècle l'antique mélancolie de ces **classes** mornes se dissipe.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21573)

- The standard of living of the working **classes** has fallen.
  Le niveau de vie des **classes** ouvrières a diminué.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 491525)

- **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 4 823 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 46 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 457 · UN documents ≈ 3 320).

- 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)

- 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)

- For food potatoes the following legal commercial **classes** are established
  Pour les pommes de terre sont introduites les **catégories** marchandes légales
  ([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 8444402)

- 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)

- All **classes** of collateral received by the reporting institution.
  Toutes les **catégories** de sûretés reçues par l'établissement déclarant
  ([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 3576345)

## More sentences

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

- **Classes** begin on Monday.
  Les cours commencent lundi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4496005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496005) [\#4947801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4947801))

- How many **classes** do you have on Monday?
  Combien d'heures de cours as-tu le lundi ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#238865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238865) [\#1426974](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1426974))

- She's doing well in her **classes** at school.
  Elle réussit bien dans ses cours à l'école.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#12463722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12463722) [\#2572558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2572558))

## Grammar

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