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# future — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: future (253 309), futures (1 985). By style: everyday 462 · literary 23 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 39 993 · legal and administrative 12 537 · UN documents 202 274.

## futures

Used about 92 879 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 74 · parliamentary ≈ 2 500 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 918 · UN documents ≈ 86 388). Forms: futur, futures.

- Think of your **future**.
  Pense à ton **futur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2647057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2647057) [\#3218825](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3218825))

- The bill for this episode will be presented to **future** generations.
  Ce seront les générations **futures** qui devront payer la facture de cette crise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1352163)

- ELX **Futures**, L.P.
  ELX **Futures**, L.P.
  ([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 3832602)

- Durée des sessions **futures**
  Durée des sessions **futures**
  ([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 3131359)

- This is the car of the **future**.
  C'est la voiture du **futur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11575775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11575775) [\#11575778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11575778))

## avenir

Used about 77 807 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 342 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 23 329 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 437 · UN documents ≈ 52 676).

- You have a **future**.
  Tu as un **avenir**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2548906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2548906) [\#7763106](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7763106))

- These lofty deeds of rascality have no **future**.
  Ces hautes escroqueries n'ont point d'**avenir**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14071)

- Indeed surely there is a **future** hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
  Car il est un **avenir**, Et ton espérance ne sera pas anéantie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 23:18)

- That gives us hope for the **future**.
  Cela nous donne de l'espoir pour l'**avenir**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268049)

- Objective 3 — Creation of a fund for **future** financing
  Objectif no 3 — Création d’un fonds de financement d’**avenir**
  ([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 4769410)

## terme

Used about 25 743 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 6 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 310 · UN documents ≈ 14 749).

- Has anybody here made a profit in **futures** trading?
  Quiconque a-t-il ici réalisé des profits dans les opérations à **terme** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#635435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/635435) [\#1732738](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1732738))

- The Chicago **futures** market is still there and will continue to be there.
  Le marché à **terme** de Chicago reste et restera.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1839071)

- financial **futures** and options;
  les instruments financiers à **terme** et options;
  ([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 2855052)

- Virtually anything that can be done by a swap can also be done by one or more options, **futures** or forwards.
  Tout ce qui peut être fait avec un swap peut aussi l &apos; être avec une ou plusieurs options, ou contrats à **terme**.
  ([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 4289355)

- Commodity **futures** markets have become highly speculative.
  Les marchés à **terme** des matières premières sont devenus hautement spéculatifs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by siggg and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#1300780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1300780) [\#750952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750952))

## contrats

Used about 2 238 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 131 · UN documents ≈ 2 107).

- potential **future** exposure of derivative contracts;
  l'exposition potentielle future des **contrats** dérivés;
  ([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 3410743)

- Similar speculative behaviour also filtered through to energy **futures** contracts, pushing up the price of oil.
  Un comportement spéculatif semblable a gagné les **contrats** à termes du secteur énergétique et fait monter les prix du pétrole.
  ([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 21655513)

## More sentences

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

- We wish him all success in his **future** endeavor.
  Nous lui souhaitons tout le succès dans sa future entreprise.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1654003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1654003) [\#1654886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1654886))

- It is impossible to know what will happen in the **future**.
  Il est impossible de savoir ce qu’il adviendra.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#267503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267503) [\#9392546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9392546))

- One in four consumers thinks that prices will continue to rise in the **future**.
  Un consommateur sur quatre pense que la hausse des prix va se poursuivre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nrms · checked, community translation · [\#319929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/319929) [\#1586463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1586463))

## 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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