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# companies — English to French

How English *companies* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: companies (91 497). By style: everyday 38 · literary 1 · biblical 15 · parliamentary 13 323 · legal and administrative 28 631 · UN documents 49 489.

## sociétés

Used about 42 887 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 110 · legal and administrative ≈ 19 087 · UN documents ≈ 22 682).

- Algeria has fertilizer **companies**.
  L'Algérie a des **sociétés** de fertilisants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#8589013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8589013) [\#12480577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480577))

- On the other hand, we must ensure that those **companies** providing the energy are monitored and that true competition is created.
  Par ailleurs, nous devons garantir que les **sociétés** qui fournissent l'énergie soient contrôlées et qu'une vraie concurrence soit instaurée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1248432)

- All other cooperating **companies**
  Toutes les autres **sociétés** ayant coopéré
  ([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 3934094)

- The Finance **Companies** Act (chapter 89)
  La loi sur les **sociétés** financières (chap. 89);
  ([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 25106625)

- Our trading **companies** do business all over the world.
  Nos **sociétés** de négoce font des affaires dans le monde entier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#23559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23559) [\#12459580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12459580))

## entreprises

Used about 30 936 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 9 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 351 · UN documents ≈ 13 403).

- Many small **companies** went bankrupt.
  De nombreuses petites **entreprises** ont fait faillite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#274871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274871) [\#335795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335795))

- Only 1% of **companies** expects a decrease.
  Seul un pour cent des **entreprises** envisage une diminution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 435052)

- They could not have been foreseen by the Hurtigruten **companies**.
  Les **entreprises** Hurtigruten n’auraient pas pu prévoir ces changements.
  ([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 5630942)

- 3.3 Theme 12: The development of and support for small and medium-size **companies**
  3.3 Thème 12 : Promotion et soutien des petites et moyennes **entreprises**
  ([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 19509059)

- **Companies** are less loyal to their workers.
  Les **entreprises** sont moins loyales à l'égard de leurs salariés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1611144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1611144) [\#1612458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1612458))

## compagnies

Used about 6 549 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 388 · UN documents ≈ 5 155).

- The two **companies** are competing with each other.
  Les deux **compagnies** sont en concurrence l'une avec l'autre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Cirilo · checked, community translation · [\#72861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72861) [\#713330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/713330))

- “Gossip,” said Louis XI., “with the two **companies** of my unattached troops and one discharge of a serpentine, short work is made of a populace of louts.”
  --Compère, dit Louis XI, avec deux **compagnies** de mon ordonnance et une volée de serpentine, on a bon marché d'une populace de manants.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7830)

- That is apparent from, among other things, the fresh attempts to protect the position of airline **companies**.
  C'est ce qui ressort notamment des nouvelles tentatives visant à protéger la position des **compagnies** aériennes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 240069)

- 52. Foster the improvement of the performance of mining **companies** and:
  Œuvrer à l &apos; amélioration de la performance des **compagnies** minières, et :
  ([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 24736519)

- Fortune 500 **companies** were the hardest hit by recent legislation.
  Les **compagnies** de la liste Fortune 500 furent les plus durement touchées par la récente législation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#34378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34378) [\#1683190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1683190))

## More sentences

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

- I hear the governor's been getting money under the table from tobacco **companies**.
  Il paraît que le gouverneur reçoit de l'argent sous le manteau de la part des fabricants de tabac.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#277025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277025) [\#14045124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14045124))

- German **companies** offer language courses in order to integrate guest workers.
  Les firmes allemandes offrent des cours de langue pour intégrer les travailleurs immigrés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13959082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959082) [\#13959083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959083))

- I hear the governor's been getting money under the table from tobacco **companies**.
  J'ai entendu dire que le gouverneur recevait de l'argent dans l'ombre de la part des fabricants de tabac.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#277025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277025) [\#14045126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14045126))

## 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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