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# code — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: code (232 940), codes (29 732). By style: everyday 61 · literary 5 · parliamentary 3 593 · legal and administrative 64 480 · UN documents 194 533.

## code

Used about 251 575 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 56 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 294 · legal and administrative ≈ 61 793 · UN documents ≈ 186 427). Forms: code, codes.

- Is there a dress **code**?
  Y a-t-il un **code** vestimentaire ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#319836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/319836) [\#6380858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380858))

- The terms of the **Code** were explicit.
  Les termes du **code** étaient formels.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1896)

- Community Customs **Code** (debate)
  **Code** des douanes communautaire (débat)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1031676)

- Commodity **code** (CN **code**)
  **Code** produit (code NC)
  ([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 1151389)

- 4. The Civil Service **Code**
  4. **Code** du Service civil
  ([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 15188923)

## More sentences

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

- The ship sent distress signals in Morse **code**.
  Le navire a envoyé des signaux de détresse en morse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8599340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8599340) [\#12014963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12014963))

- Do I have to dial the area **code**, too?
  Dois-je également composer l'indicatif ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#246131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246131) [\#583483](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/583483))

- He doesn't know how to **code**.
  Il ne sait pas coder.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pyeman23 and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#9858584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9858584) [\#8689467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8689467))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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