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# engine — English to French

How English *engine* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: engine (46 124), engines (18 438). By style: everyday 129 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 882 · legal and administrative 21 288 · UN documents 42 259.

## moteur

Used about 56 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 116 · parliamentary ≈ 827 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 405 · UN documents ≈ 36 977). Forms: moteur, moteurs.

- He fixed the **engine**.
  Il a réparé le **moteur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#8303803](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8303803) [\#12493919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493919))

- Confidence is the **engine** of economic growth.
  La confiance est le **moteur** de la croissance économique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 435194)

- **Engine** identification number: 愦灭※
  Numéro d'identification du **moteur**:
  ([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 5586045)

- **Engines** of the family
  **Moteurs** de la famille
  ([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 13938561)

- She tested an **engine**.
  Elle a testé un **moteur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Gib · checked, community translation · [\#2880863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2880863) [\#9794933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9794933))

## gaz

Used about 440 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 440).

- CO - 200 - 230 mg/m3 for **engines**
  OUI - pour le CO dans les **gaz** de combustion provenant des chaudières et des brûleurs
  ([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 10803116)

## véhicules

Used about 222 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 222).

- Limit values for **engines** for heavy-duty vehicles are given in tables 2 and 3 on the applicable test procedures.
  Pour les **véhicules** utilitaires lourds, les valeurs limites sont présentées aux tableaux 2 et 3 selon la procédure d'essai retenue.
  ([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 4201269)

## émissions

Used about 9 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 9).

- Emissions from diesel **engines**
  **Émissions** polluantes des poids lourds
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1902669)

## More sentences

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

- As I did not have a mechanic with me, or any passengers, I was going to have to make a difficult **engine** repair on my own.
  Et comme je n'avais avec moi ni mécanicien, ni passagers, je me préparai à essayer de réussir, tout seul, une réparation difficile.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8987619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8987619) [\#8987586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8987586))

- Before the fire **engine** arrived, the whole house had burnt down.
  La maison a entièrement brulé avant l'arrivée des pompiers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#268169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/268169) [\#128504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128504))

- When Tom stopped for a stop sign, his **engine** stalled.
  Lorsque Tom s'est arrêté au stop, son engin a calé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sibelius · checked, community translation · [\#1042409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1042409) [\#1266961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1266961))

## 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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