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# forests — English to French

How English *forests* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: forests (34 777). By style: everyday 15 · literary 4 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 417 · legal and administrative 781 · UN documents 32 557.

## forêts

Used about 26 372 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 299 · legal and administrative ≈ 635 · UN documents ≈ 24 418). Forms: forêt, forêts.

- Wolves live in large **forests**.
  Les loups vivent dans les grandes **forêts**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#9105301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9105301) [\#5241811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5241811))

- “Master Dreux-Raguier, surveyor of the woods and **forests** of the king our sovereign, in the land of France, Champagne and Brie!”
  Maître Dreux-Raguier, enquesteur des eaux et **forêts** du roi notre sire, ès pays de France, Champagne et Brie!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 573)

- The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the **forests** bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”
  La voix de l’Éternel fait enfanter les biches, Elle dépouille les **forêts**. Dans son palais tout s’écrie: Gloire!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 29:9)

- What is the situation with tropical **forests**?
  Quelle est la situation au sujet des **forêts** tropicales?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1900643)

- 9320 Olea and Ceratonia **forests**
  9320 **Forêts** à Olea et Ceratonia
  ([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 2846716)

## forum

Used about 678 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 678).

- Consideration of all proposals and options on the location of the secretariat of the United Nations Forum on **Forests** \[3\]
  Consideration of all proposals and options on the location of the secretariat of the United Nations **Forum** on Forests \[3\]
  ([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 8277270)

## bois

Used about 63 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 30 · legal and administrative ≈ 33).

- Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the **forests** he built fortresses and towers.
  Il bâtit des villes dans la montagne de Juda, et des châteaux et des tours dans les **bois**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 27:4)

- In short, we cannot imagine humankind being able to put up with more damage than cathedrals and **forests**.
  En définitive, nous ne devons pas penser que l'être humain résiste plus que les cathédrales et les **bois**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1895179)

- Atlantic acidophilous beech **forests** with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer Quercionrobori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion
  Hêtraies acidophiles atlantiques à sous-**bois** à Ilex et parfois à Taxus (Quercion roboripetraeae ou Ilici-Fagenion)
  ([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 408334)

- Atlantic acidophilous beech **forests** with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercionrobori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion)
  Hêtraies acidophiles atlantiques à sous-**bois** à Ilex et parfois à Taxus (Quercion robori-petraeae ou Ilici-Fagenion)
  ([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 821256)

## More sentences

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

- Like many of you, Mr Figueiredo and Mrs Ferrer mentioned the restoration of the **forests**, which will take time.
  M. Figueiredo et Mme Ferrer ont évoqué, comme beaucoup d'entre vous, la restauration forestière, qui prendra du temps.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 483328)

- Currently the felling of these **forests** is responsible for 20% of global carbon emissions.
  À l'heure actuelle, la déforestation est responsable de 20 % des émissions totales de carbone.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1135049)

- For now, I only want to refer to Mr Otila's report on **forests** and woodland.
  Je voudrais ici attirer l'attention uniquement sur le rapport de M. Otila qui traite de la foret.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1907512)

## Grammar

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