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# household — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: household (30 423), households (26 679). By style: everyday 23 · literary 3 · biblical 125 · parliamentary 731 · legal and administrative 6 472 · UN documents 49 748.

## ménages

Used about 35 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 552 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 854 · UN documents ≈ 30 056). Forms: ménage, ménagers, ménages.

- She was busy with **household** work.
  Elle était occupée au **ménage**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#388637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/388637) [\#1275910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1275910))

- Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the **household** should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness.
  On s'imaginait encore à cette époque, chose bizarre, qu'un mariage est une fête intime et sociale, qu'un banquet patriarcal ne gâte point une solennité domestique, que la gaîté, fût-elle excessive, pourvu qu'elle soit honnête, ne fait aucun mal au bonheur, et qu'enfin il est vénérable et bon que la fusion de ces deux destinées d'où sortira une famille commence dans la maison, et que le **ménage** ait désormais pour témoin la chambre nuptiale.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29503)

- How do industry, factories and **households** behave?
  Que font à cet égard l'industrie, les usines, les **ménages**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1805458)

- Number of all private **households**
  Nombre de **ménages** privés
  ([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 4310226)

- Mean size of **households**
  Taille moyenne des **ménages**
  ([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 24868883)

## famille

Used about 2 122 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 39 · parliamentary ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 2 073).

- Tom is the head of the **household**.
  Tom est le chef de **famille**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and genes1s · checked, community translation · [\#3382676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3382676) [\#13338860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13338860))

- Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ **households**.
  Jeuts, Schocja et Mirma. Ce sont là ses fils, chefs de **famille**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:10)

- In particular, health-care workers or **household** members of a SARS patient have been known to be affected.
  On sait, en particulier, que le personnel médical ou la **famille** d'un patient infecté sont exposés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 440730)

- National figure: National Institute of Statistics. 41st Multi-purpose **Household** Survey (EPHPM), May 2011.
  Donnée nationale: INE, XLI EPHPM, mai 2011. 89. Chef de **famille**.
  ([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 27752622)

- And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's **household**, with bread, according to their families.
  Joseph établit son père et ses frères et leur donna droit de propriété dans le pays d’Égypte, dans le meilleur territoire, celui de Ramsès, comme l’avait ordonné Pharaon. Joseph nourrit son père, ses frères et toute la maison de son père, donnant des vivres selon les besoins de chaque **famille**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7909340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7909340) [\#8589675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8589675))

## maison

Used about 1 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 8 · legal and administrative ≈ 135 · UN documents ≈ 1 036).

- And Jacob being angry said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me, and searched all my **household** stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.
  Jacob s’irrita, et querella Laban. Il reprit la parole, et lui dit : Quel est mon crime, quel est mon péché, que tu me poursuives avec tant d’ardeur ? Quand tu as fouillé tous mes effets, qu’as-tu trouvé des effets de ta **maison** ? Produis-le ici devant mes frères et tes frères, et qu’ils prononcent entre nous deux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7828272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7828272) [\#8087961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8087961))

- As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the **household**.
  Tant que Cosette fut toute petite, elle fut le souffre-douleur des deux autres enfants; dès qu'elle se mit à se développer un peu, c'est-à-dire avant même qu'elle eût cinq ans, elle devint la servante de la **maison**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3498)

- As you enter into the **household**, greet it.
  En entrant dans la **maison**, saluez-la;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:12)

- We were the first Western elected politicians to visit the royal **household** since the crisis.
  Nous étions les premiers responsables politiques élus d'Occident à rendre visite à la **maison** royale depuis le début de la crise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 237185)

- **Household** furniture and other **household** effects, new or used
  Meubles de **maison** et autres effets domestiques, neufs ou usagés
  ([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 207321)

## chefs

Used about 1 060 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 1 036).

- The whole number of the heads of fathers’ **households**, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.
  Le nombre total des **chefs** de maisons paternelles, des vaillants guerriers, était de deux mille six cents.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 26:12)

- All women who are heads of **households** will receive specialized training.
  Toutes les femmes **chefs** de famille bénéficieront d &apos; une formation spécialisée.
  ([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 2834697)

- The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ **households**, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
  Les fils de Lévi, **chefs** de familles, furent inscrits dans le livre des Chroniques jusqu’au temps de Jochanan, fils d’Éliaschib.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 12:23)

- **Households** had an average of 3.2 members and the number of women heads of **household** was on the rise.
  Les foyers comptent un nombre moyen de 3,2 membres et le nombre de femmes **chefs** de famille est en augmentation.
  ([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 15158607)

- Some of the heads of fathers’ **households** gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
  Les **chefs** de familles donnèrent au trésor de l’œuvre vingt mille dariques d’or et deux mille deux cents mines d’argent.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:71)

## More sentences

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

- I'd love to be able to spend less time doing **household** chores.
  J'adorerais être capable de passer moins de temps à faire des tâches ménagères.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909541) [\#1403209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1403209))

- "How often does someone in your **household** yell at you?" "Well, I live with an Italian man..."
  « À quelle fréquence quelqu'un de votre foyer vous crie-t-il dessus ? » « Eh bien, je vis avec un Italien... »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#14050762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14050762) [\#14050784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14050784))

- I'd love to be able to spend less time doing **household** chores.
  J'adorerais être capable de consacrer moins de temps à exécuter des tâches ménagères.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909541) [\#1403211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1403211))

## 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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