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# geneva — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: geneva (173 957), genevas (1). By style: everyday 12 · parliamentary 1 618 · legal and administrative 744 · UN documents 171 584.

## genève

Used about 166 813 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 618 · legal and administrative ≈ 605 · UN documents ≈ 164 581). Forms: geneva, genève.

- He comes from **Geneva**.
  Il vient de **Genève**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#904283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/904283) [\#904280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/904280))

- I believe the response of the EU in **Geneva** was appalling.
  J'estime que l'UE a eu une réaction navrante à **Genève**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 70714)

- Gunvor BV, **Geneva**, Switzerland
  Gunvor BV, **Genève**, Suisse
  ([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 5002008)

- OHCHR Secretariat in **Geneva**
  OHCHR Secretariat in **Geneva**
  ([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 9350971)

- Does the plane go to **Geneva**?
  Est-ce que l'avion va à **Genève**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharris123 and vermillon · checked, community translation · [\#7801544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7801544) [\#3106184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3106184))

## permanent

Used about 3 502 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 502).

- Mr. Hidehiro NANAO, First Secretary, Permanent Mission, **Genevas**
  Mr. Hidehiro NANAO, First Secretary, **Permanent** Mission, Genevas
  ([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 7512721)

## suisse

Used about 2 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2).

- Lake **Geneva** is the largest lake in Switzerland.
  Le Léman est le plus grand lac de **Suisse**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LittleBoy and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1532020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532020) [\#11743794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11743794))

- Lake **Geneva** is the largest lake in Switzerland.
  Le lac Léman est le plus grand lac de **Suisse**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LittleBoy and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1532020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532020) [\#11743791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11743791))

## More sentences

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

- **Geneva**, in containers holding
  Genièvre, présenté en récipients d'une contenance
  ([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 2689501)

- Spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages (excluding spirits distilled from grape wine, grape marc or fruit/whisky, rum, tafia, gin and **geneva**, spirits distilled from fruit)
  Liqueurs et autres boissons spiritueuses
  ([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 946017)

- Gin and **geneva** (important: excluding alcohol duty)
  Gin et genièvre (important: hors taxes et accises sur l'alcool)
  ([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 3365629)

## 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/).

## About these examples

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