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# funds — English to French

How English *funds* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: funds (176 197). By style: everyday 20 · literary 1 · parliamentary 17 050 · legal and administrative 22 654 · UN documents 136 472.

## fonds

Used about 145 993 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 13 853 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 238 · UN documents ≈ 110 884).

- I raise **funds**.
  Je lève des **fonds**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#263558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/263558) [\#9416446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9416446))

- That brings me to the Structural **Funds**.
  Cela m'amène aux **fonds** structurels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1996833)

- Contributions from EU trust **funds**
  Contributions des **fonds** fiduciaires de l’UE
  ([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 4465196)

- Loss of use of **funds**
  J. Perte de jouissance de **fonds**
  ([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 11066138)

- I raise **funds**.
  Je collecte des **fonds**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#263558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/263558) [\#9416442](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9416442))

## More sentences

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

- That Minister of Parliament was accused of buying his wife's dresses with public **funds**.
  Ce député est accusé de payer les robes de sa femme avec les deniers publiques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#3348269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3348269) [\#1000857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1000857))

- He was accused of squandering public **funds**.
  Il était accusé de détournement d'argent public.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#458570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/458570) [\#458573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/458573))

- Mr. Fogg heard this narrative coldly, without a word; and then furnished his man with **funds** necessary to obtain clothing more in harmony with his position.
  Mr. Fogg écouta froidement ce récit, sans répondre; puis il ouvrit à son domestique un crédit suffisant pour que celui-ci pût se procurer à bord des habits plus convenables.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1960)

## 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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