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# court — English to French

How English *court* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: court (362 033), courts (96 554). By style: everyday 88 · literary 56 · biblical 133 · parliamentary 15 948 · legal and administrative 29 639 · UN documents 412 723.

## tribunal

Used about 201 265 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 6 811 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 249 · UN documents ≈ 189 165). Forms: tribunal, tribunaux.

- See you in **court**.
  Rendez-vous au **tribunal** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3527395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3527395) [\#3532232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3532232))

- If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a **court**, then who can oppose him?
  S’il passe, s’il saisit, S’il traîne à son **tribunal**, qui s’y opposera?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 11:10)

- They will be dragged before the **courts**.
  Ils seront traînés devant les **tribunaux**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 194175)

- Former Judge of the City **Court** of Minsk.
  Ancienne juge au **tribunal** de Minsk.
  ([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 3027573)

- The persons who may approach a **court** are:
  Peut saisir un **tribunal**:
  ([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 13482856)

## cour

Used about 126 620 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 31 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 5 814 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 953 · UN documents ≈ 111 779).

- The **court** sentenced him to death.
  La **cour** l'a condamné à mort.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#321039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/321039) [\#11719560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11719560))

- They are his whole **court**.
  C'est là toute sa **cour**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7730)

- So Jeremiah stayed in the **court** of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
  Jérémie resta dans la **cour** de la prison jusqu’au jour de la prise de Jérusalem.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 38:28)

- Appointment of 7 members of the **Court** of Auditors (debate)
  Nomination de 7 membres de la **Cour** des comptes (débat)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1002734)

- Tribunal de Contas (**Court** of Auditors)
  Tribunal de Contas (**Cour** des comptes)
  ([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 255690)

## juridictions

Used about 22 041 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 498 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 645 · UN documents ≈ 12 898).

- Constitutional **courts** are now debating this issue as well and want to make a decision.
  Les **juridictions** constitutionnelles se penchent également sur la question et veulent prendre une décision.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294725)

- Cooperation and communication between **courts**
  Coopération et communication entre **juridictions**
  ([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 4983197)

- Accordingly, the case law of regional **courts**, even European ones, was of little importance.
  À partir de là, la jurisprudence des **juridictions** régionales, fussentelles européennes, importe peu.
  ([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 20161631)

- But I think that what we have achieved in our work is that we are coming to a situation in which those two **courts** can be complementary.
  Or, je pense que nous avons abouti à une situation où ces deux **juridictions** peuvent être complémentaires.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1380812)

- Transmission of information to national **courts**
  Transmission d’informations aux **juridictions** nationales
  ([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 5639759)

## devant

Used about 13 212 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 6 · legal and administrative ≈ 309 · UN documents ≈ 12 898).

- When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my **courts**?
  Quand vous venez vous présenter **devant** moi, Qui vous demande de souiller mes parvis?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 1:12)

- The Council of **Court** of Appeals Judges referred the case to the Appeal **Court** of Athens (order 800/2009).
  Le Symvoulio Efeton a renvoyé l’affaire **devant** l’Efeteio Athinon (ordonnance 800/2009).
  ([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 2280096)

- Prosecutions had also been brought before the ordinary **courts**.
  Des poursuites ont de plus été engagées **devant** les juridictions ordinaires.
  ([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 13592269)

- Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the LORD’s house, before the new **court**;
  Josaphat se présenta au milieu de l’assemblée de Juda et de Jérusalem, dans la maison de l’Éternel, **devant** le nouveau parvis.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 20:5)

- I recommend that a system of child advocates be instituted in Trinidad and Tobago to represent the views of the child to the **court**.
  Je recommande qu &apos; un système de défenseurs des enfants soit institué à la Trinité-et-Tobago pour représenter les vues des enfants **devant** les tribunaux494.
  ([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 11964261)

## justice

Used about 6 219 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 665 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 235 · UN documents ≈ 4 299).

- They took us to **court**.
  Ils nous ont poursuivis en **justice**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6596422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6596422) [\#11948264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11948264))

- “Monsieur,” said he, “where is the **court**-house, if you please.”
  --Monsieur, dit-il, le palais de **justice**, s'il vous plaît?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5774)

- “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in **court** to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
  Tu ne suivras point la multitude pour faire le mal; et tu ne déposeras point dans un procès en te mettant du côté du grand nombre, pour violer la **justice**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 23:2)

- Lawyers are officers of the **courts**, not police officers.
  L' avocat est un auxiliaire de **justice**, non un auxiliaire de police.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 184217)

- Alberta Justice — Alberta **Courts**:
  **Justice** Alberta — Tribunaux de l'Alberta:
  ([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 254652)

## More sentences

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

- Now the ball is in your **court**!
  Maintenant la balle est dans ton camp !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Grim\_fandango and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1602996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1602996) [\#2019691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2019691))

- We ate at the food **court**.
  Nous avons mangé à la terrasse de la galerie commerciale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2306697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2306697) [\#2307710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2307710))

- I discovered that there was a **court** case.
  J'ai découvert qu'il avait un casier judiciaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharris123 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7798518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7798518) [\#2329790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2329790))

## 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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