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# content — English to French

How English *content* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: content (81 785), contents (46 903). By style: everyday 101 · literary 20 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 6 520 · legal and administrative 32 095 · UN documents 89 942.

## contenu

Used about 55 042 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 803 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 707 · UN documents ≈ 37 476).

- It has very good **content**.
  Il a un très bon **contenu**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8225650](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8225650) [\#8225732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8225732))

- I really could do no less than ask a question about its **contents**, although I did not feel the slightest interest.
  Je ne pouvais faire moins que de l'interroger sur son **contenu**, bien que cela ne m'intéressât aucunement.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 86)

- The Pandora's box from which they come reveals some terrible **contents**.
  La boîte de Pandore d'où ils sortent révèle un **contenu** affreux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1983729)

- **Content** of this TSI
  **Contenu** de la présente STI
  ([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 3421157)

- \[X% by mass of the **contents** are flammable.\]
  \[X % (masse) du **contenu** est inflammable.\]
  ([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 23289081)

## teneur

Used about 23 693 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 272 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 361 · UN documents ≈ 14 053).

- This beer has a high **content** of alcohol.
  Cette bière a une **teneur** en alcool élevée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7738611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7738611) [\#8537629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8537629))

- She, no less pale, no less like a statue, had hardly noticed that they had placed in her hand a heavy, lighted candle of yellow wax; she had not heard the yelping voice of the clerk reading the fatal **contents** of the apology; when they told her to respond with Amen, she responded Amen.
  Elle, non moins pâle et non moins statue, elle s'était à peine aperçue qu'on lui avait mis en main un lourd cierge de cire jaune allumé; elle n'avait pas écouté la voix glapissante du greffier lisant la fatale **teneur** de l'amende honorable; quand on lui avait dit de répondre Amen, elle avait répondu Amen.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5743)

- They concern paragraph 13 on the tar **content** in rolling tobacco.
  Il s'agit du paragraphe 13 sur la **teneur** en goudron dans les cigarettes à rouler.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1792613)

- of which minimum casein **content**
  dont **teneur** minimale en caséines
  ([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 3558306)

- **Contents** of solicitation documents
  **Teneur** du dossier de sollicitation
  ([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 20162746)

## More sentences

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

- I'm **content** with my salary.
  Je suis satisfait de mon salaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#264679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264679) [\#128193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128193))

- I am **content** with my job.
  Je suis content de mon emploi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#258286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258286) [\#6384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6384))

- He is **content** with the simple life.
  Il est content de sa vie simple.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#300799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300799) [\#1184642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1184642))

## 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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