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# households — English to French

How English *households* 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: households (26 679). By style: everyday 2 · biblical 50 · parliamentary 372 · legal and administrative 2 156 · UN documents 24 099.

## ménages

Used about 15 430 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 310 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 066 · UN documents ≈ 13 054).

- 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)

- Half of South African **households** are classed as poor.
  La moitié des **ménages** sud-africains sont classés dans la catégorie des pauvres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 48362)

- emissions from **households**, kt
  Émissions de CO2 des **ménages**, kt
  ([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 538185)

## familles

Used about 3 548 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 3 514). Forms: famille, familles.

- 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)

- A survey by a Belgian university shows that 300 000 Flemish **households** employ domestic help.
  D'après une enquête menée dans une université belge, 300.000 **familles** flamandes feraient appel à une aide ménagère.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1627253)

- Between 200405 and 200506 the number of children in relative lowincome **households** rose by 100,000.
  Entre 200405 et 200506, le nombre d &apos; enfants vivant dans des **familles** à faible revenu a augmenté de 100 000.
  ([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 18835601)

- These were heads of fathers’ **households** throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.
  Ce sont là des chefs de **famille**, chefs selon leurs générations. Ils habitaient à Jérusalem.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:28)

- (ii) Increased percentage of **households** of refugees and others of concern with adequate dwellings
  ii) Augmentation du pourcentage de **familles** de réfugiés et d &apos; autres familles relevant de la compétence du HCR qui disposent d &apos; un logement correct
  ([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 21854349)

## chefs

Used about 1 525 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 19 · UN documents ≈ 1 506).

- 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.

- **Households** with three children are numerous in the region.
  Les foyers comptant trois enfants sont bien nombreux dans la région.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rokito and rokito · checked, community translation · [\#3663358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3663358) [\#3663357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3663357))

- It is a shameful fact that, while there are lands where people suffer from hunger, within Japan there are many **households** and restaurants where much food is thrown away.
  Il est honteux qu'en même temps qu'il existe des endroits où des personnes souffrent de la faim, à l'intérieur du Japon il y ait des maisons et des restaurants où beaucoup de nourriture est gaspillée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Denizar and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#18162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18162) [\#406855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/406855))

- The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their **households**, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
  La terre ouvrit sa bouche, et les engloutit, eux et leurs maisons, avec tous les gens de Koré et tous leurs biens.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 16:32)

## 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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