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# interest — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: interest (163 328), interests (109 452). By style: everyday 236 · literary 26 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 28 574 · legal and administrative 49 253 · UN documents 194 678.

## intérêt

Used about 216 788 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 130 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 23 514 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 992 · UN documents ≈ 154 120). Forms: intérêt, intérêts.

- He has few **interests**.
  Il a peu d'**intérêts**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11030049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11030049) [\#11030053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11030053))

- “In your master’s **interests**.”
  --Dans l'**intérêt** de votre maître.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2013)

- You shall not lend him your money at **interest**, nor give him your food for profit.
  Tu ne lui prêteras point ton argent à **intérêt**, et tu ne lui prêteras point tes vivres à usure.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 25:37)

- Which Belgian economic **interests**?
  Quels **intérêts** économiques belges?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843176)

- Conclusion on Union **interest**
  Conclusion concernant l'**intérêt** de l'Union
  ([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 4933229)

## More sentences

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

- I thought that that would **interest** you.
  Je pensais que ça vous intéresserait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7337671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7337671) [\#2093623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2093623))

- Can I **interest** you in a game of cards?
  Seriez-vous intéressé par un jeu de cartes ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#3329752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3329752) [\#5092943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5092943))

- You don't need to tell me. I don't have any **interest** in this matter.
  Tu n'as pas besoin de me le dire. Je ne suis pas du tout intéressé par le sujet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and Wakano · checked, community translation · [\#2301437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2301437) [\#2720026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2720026))

## 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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