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# female — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: female (60 661), females (9 260). By style: everyday 76 · literary 20 · biblical 67 · parliamentary 1 247 · legal and administrative 1 825 · UN documents 66 686.

## femmes

Used about 25 086 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 570 · legal and administrative ≈ 190 · UN documents ≈ 24 313).

- All the workers at this factory are **female**.
  Tous les travailleurs de cette usine sont des **femmes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4502921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4502921) [\#11741597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11741597))

- The convent—the ancient **female** convent in particular, such as it still presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, in Spain—is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages.
  Le couvent, l'antique couvent de **femmes** particulièrement, tel qu'il apparaît encore au seuil de ce siècle en Italie, en Autriche, en Espagne, est une des plus sombres concrétions du Moyen Age.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10893)

- You shall put both male and **female** outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
  Hommes ou **femmes**, vous les renverrez, vous les renverrez hors du camp, afin qu’ils ne souillent pas le camp au milieu duquel j’ai ma demeure.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 5:3)

- However, **female** employment varies greatly from one Member State to another.
  L'emploi des **femmes** varie toutefois considérablement d'un État membre à l'autre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1334316)

- Attention will be paid to access to finance for **female** entrepreneurs.
  L'accès des **femmes** entrepreneurs au financement sera abordé.
  ([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 3775995)

## hommes

Used about 13 200 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 13 198).

- Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, the **female** Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot chisel, which emitted a threatening glow.
  Avant que les sept **hommes** eussent eu le temps de se reconnaître et de s'élancer, lui s'était penché sous la cheminée, avait étendu la main vers le réchaud, puis s'était redressé, et maintenant Thénardier, la Thénardier et les bandits, refoulés par le saisissement au fond du bouge, le regardaient avec stupeur élevant au-dessus de sa tête le ciseau rouge d'où tombait une lueur sinistre, presque libre et dans une attitude formidable.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17740)

- - Male and **female** workers 18 years old or more.
  Celui des travailleurs, **hommes** et femmes, de 18 ans et plus.
  ([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 15379807)

- Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the **female** wolf, in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and pistol in hand.
  Maintenant, pour se faire une idée de la scène qui va suivre, que le lecteur se figure dans son esprit la nuit glacée, les solitudes de la Salpêtrière couvertes de neige, et blanches au clair de lune comme d'immenses linceuls, la clarté de veilleuse des réverbères rougissant çà et là ces boulevards tragiques et les longues rangées des ormes noirs, pas un passant peut-être à un quart de lieue à la ronde, la masure Gorbeau à son plus haut point de silence, d'horreur et de nuit, dans cette masure, au milieu de ces solitudes, au milieu de cette ombre, le vaste galetas Jondrette éclairé d'une chandelle, et dans ce bouge deux **hommes** assis à une table, M. Leblanc tranquille, Jondrette souriant et effroyable, la Jondrette, la mère louve, dans un coin, et, derrière la cloison, Marius invisible, debout, ne perdant pas une parole, ne perdant pas un mouvement, l'oeil au guet, le pistolet au poing.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17178)

- (**Female** literacy rates as ratio to male literacy rates)
  (Taux d &apos; alphabétisation des femmes par rapport aux **hommes**)
  ([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 10039602)

- Reduction in the income gap between males and **females**.
  :: La Réduction de l &apos; écart de revenu entre les **hommes** et les femmes.
  ([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 20528602)

## féminin

Used about 7 104 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 89 · legal and administrative ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 6 946).

- Mary is a **female** name.
  Marie est un prénom **féminin**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#8000627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8000627) [\#13868993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13868993))

- Every year thousands, even millions of **females** suffer violence in every possible form.
  Chaque année des milliers, voire des millions d’individus de sexe **féminin** font l’objet de violences sous toutes les formes possibles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 510393)

- Total number of hours worked in the reference year 2005 by **female** persons employed
  Nombre total d’heures travaillées durant l’année de référence 2005 par les travailleurs de sexe **féminin**
  ([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 937170)

- (d) Women detainees are supervised by **female** personnel;
  d) Si les femmes détenues sont placées sous la surveillance de gardes de sexe **féminin**;
  ([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 29491381)

- A woman is an adult human **female**.
  Une femme est un être humain de sexe **féminin**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11408740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11408740) [\#11840150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11840150))

## ans

Used about 3 480 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 7 · UN documents ≈ 3 473).

- If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a **female** ten shekels.
  De cinq à vingt **ans**, ton estimation sera de vingt sicles pour un mâle, et de dix sicles pour une fille.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 27:5)

- Literacy among 15 to 24-year-olds, by sex Males **Females**
  Population alphabétisée âgée de 15 à 24 **ans**, par sexe
  ([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 24876424)

- If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a **female** ten shekels.
  De soixante **ans** et au-dessus, ton estimation sera de quinze sicles pour un mâle, et de dix sicles pour une femme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 27:7)

- Prior to this expansion, entitlement to free abortion was given to **female** minors under the age of 18.
  Avant cela, les jeunes filles de moins de 18 **ans** avaient libre accès à l &apos; avortement.
  ([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 22383776)

- He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a **female** goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
  Et l’Éternel lui dit: Prends une génisse de trois **ans**, une chèvre de trois ans, un bélier de trois ans, une tourterelle et une jeune colombe.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 15:9)

## femelles

Used about 1 430 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 36 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 388).

- Males are always more beautiful than **females**.
  Les mâles sont toujours plus beaux que les **femelles**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#9639654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9639654) [\#9639669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9639669))

- “Holà!” cried Clopin, mounted once more upon his cask, “holà! women, **females**, is there among you, from the sorceress to her cat, a wench who wants this rascal?
  «Holà! cria Clopin remonté sur sa futaille, holà! femmes, **femelles**, y a-t-il parmi vous, depuis la sorcière jusqu'à sa chatte, une ribaude qui veuille de ce ribaud?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1422)

- thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty **female** donkeys and ten foals.
  trente **femelles** de chameaux avec leurs petits qu’elles allaitaient, quarante vaches et dix taureaux, vingt ânesses et dix ânes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 32:15)

- Are people who specialize in producing **female** animals rather than male animals going to be left out once again?
  Les éleveurs de bovins **femelles** seront-ils laissés pour compte une fois encore?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598119)

- **Female** bovine 2 years and over
  Bovins de deux ans ou plus, **femelles**
  ([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 4664802)

## More sentences

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

- Is that dog male or **female**?
  Ce chien est-il un mâle ou une femelle?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dadidas · checked, community translation · [\#68424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/68424) [\#4585429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4585429))

- A doe is a **female** deer.
  La biche est la femelle du cerf.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hinto4 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4717341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4717341) [\#11767638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11767638))

- Who was the **female** you were talking to?
  Qui est la gonzesse à laquelle tu étais en train de parler ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3645317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3645317) [\#3646726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3646726))

## 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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