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# food — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: food (199 900), foods (7 473). By style: everyday 1 005 · literary 7 · biblical 188 · parliamentary 15 478 · legal and administrative 43 042 · UN documents 147 653.

## aliments

Used about 168 989 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 450 · biblical ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 13 704 · legal and administrative ≈ 39 455 · UN documents ≈ 115 354). Forms: alimentaire, alimentaires, alimentation, aliments.

- Some kinds of **food** make one thirsty.
  Certains **aliments** donnent soif.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi\_alt and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#67235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67235) [\#10595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10595))

- so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty **food**.
  Alors il prend en dégoût le pain, Même les **aliments** les plus exquis;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 33:20)

- My last point is on sports **foods**.
  Un dernier point est l'**alimentation** des sportifs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1791943)

- Community lists of **food** additives
  Listes communautaires des additifs **alimentaires**
  ([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 1646301)

- to **food** and **food** sovereignty
  et à la souveraineté **alimentaire**
  ([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 26248908)

## denrées

Used about 4 775 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 161 · UN documents ≈ 4 614).

- The healthy development of our children is determined by the supply of healthy **foods**, such as local milk products.
  Le développement sain de nos enfants est déterminé par l'apport de **denrées** saines, tels que les produits laitiers locaux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 958685)

- C. Promoting clean agriculture: the fight against toxic **foods** and genetically
  C. Promouvoir l &apos; agriculture propre : la lutte contre les **denrées** toxiques et
  ([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 22068178)

- Delegates are requested to deliberate on the possibility of discontinuing the joint FAO/ECE Groups of Experts on Quick-Frozen **Foods** and Fruit Juices.
  Les délégations sont invitées à étudier la possibilité de supprimer les groupes mixtes FAO/CEE d &apos; experts des **denrées** surgelées et des jus de fruit.
  ([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 4327852)

- Prices of staple **foods** remain high - above their long-term averages - and over 300 million Africans continue to face chronic hunger.
  Les prix des **denrées** de base restent élevés − supérieurs à leur moyenne à long terme − et plus de 300 millions d &apos; Africains continuent de faire face à une famine chronique.
  ([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 21469289)

## produits

Used about 2 309 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 322 · legal and administrative ≈ 448 · UN documents ≈ 1 538).

- Recently 15 people died in one Member State from **food** poisoning as a result of eating contaminated **food** from one small wholesale establishment.
  Récemment encore 15 personnes, sont décédées dans un État membre suite à la consommation de **produits** contaminés provenant d'une seule petite épicerie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1687083)

- Prepared **foods** obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products
  **Produits** à base de céréales obtenus par soufflage ou grillage
  ([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 4691856)

- 6. Common resolutions No. 636/99 and 760/99 (Customs and the National Service for Health and Agro-**food** Quality -- SENASA) Continues as endnote 1 on the last page of the report
  6. Arrêtés conjoints nos 636/1999 et 760/1999 (Direction générale des douanes et Service national de l &apos; hygiène et de la qualité des **produits** agroalimentaires) Suite au pied de la dernière page1
  ([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 16022929)

- The most obvious damages are destined to build up for our industries and producers in the agro-**food**, design, fashion and luxury products sectors.
  Les dommages les plus évidents sont destinés à augmenter pour nos industries et producteurs dans les secteurs de l'agroalimentaire, du design, de la mode et des **produits** de luxe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1442658)

## sécurité

Used about 1 538 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 538).

- It agreed that a key element for achieving **food** security was the development of competitive and sustainable agro-industrial and agribusiness operations.
  Il estime, en effet, qu &apos; un élément clef pour assurer la **sécurité** agroalimentaire est de mettre en place des activités compétitives et durables dans le secteur agroindustriel.
  ([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 21216166)

## More sentences

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

- Let **food** be thy medicine and medicine be thy **food**.
  Que la nourriture soit ton médicament et le médicament soit ta nourriture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6032043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6032043) [\#6936554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6936554))

- The hospital **food** wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.
  La nourriture de l'hôpital n'était pas aussi mauvaise que ce à quoi je m'attendais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4135338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4135338) [\#6937084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6937084))

- The price of **food**'s gone up.
  Les prix de la nourriture ont augmenté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#2268465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2268465) [\#6718428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6718428))

## 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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