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# country — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: countries (1 090 593), country (656 733). By style: everyday 1 251 · literary 32 · biblical 219 · parliamentary 119 694 · legal and administrative 104 440 · UN documents 1 521 690.

## pays

Used about 1 494 911 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 172 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 142 · parliamentary ≈ 108 473 · legal and administrative ≈ 101 176 · UN documents ≈ 1 283 926).

- They invaded the **country**.
  Ils ont envahi le **pays**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#305769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305769) [\#7074104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7074104))

- “A very fine **country**, they say.”
  --On dit que c'est un beau **pays**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2387)

- He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the **country**.
  Et il le priait instamment de ne pas les envoyer hors du **pays**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 5:10)

- Sweden was one of these **countries**.
  La Suède était l'un de ces **pays**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1272744)

- Producer in the analogue **country**
  Producteur dans le **pays** analogue
  ([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 4355156)

## More sentences

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

- It will do you good to go to the **country**.
  Ça te fera du bien d'aller à la campagne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by monahxo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3523566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3523566) [\#3526866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3526866))

- John practised for some time as a barrister, but had finally settled down to the more congenial life of a **country** squire.
  John a pratiqué pendant un certain temps comme avocat, mais il a finalement opté pour la vie plus agréable d'hobereau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#8824599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8824599) [\#9192174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9192174))

- It will do you good to go to the **country**.
  Ça vous fera du bien d'aller à la campagne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by monahxo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3523566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3523566) [\#3526869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3526869))

## 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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