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# knowledge — English to French

How English *knowledge* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: knowledge (121 778), knowledges (2). By style: everyday 140 · literary 4 · biblical 152 · parliamentary 6 311 · legal and administrative 8 935 · UN documents 106 238.

## connaissance

Used about 80 942 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 3 944 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 476 · UN documents ≈ 69 380). Forms: connaissance, connaissances.

- **Knowledge** is the supreme goal.
  La **connaissance** est le but suprême.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3291515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3291515) [\#11591748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11591748))

- Every prudent man acts from **knowledge**, but a fool exposes folly.
  Tout homme prudent agit avec **connaissance**, Mais l’insensé fait étalage de folie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 13:16)

- Yet we have also been confirmed in our old **knowledge** of nature.
  Nous avons cependant confirmé notre ancienne **connaissance** de la nature.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 813569)

- Mapping and validating **knowledge**
  cartographie et validation des **connaissances**
  ([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 3101757)

- VII. REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL **KNOWLEDGE**
  VII. EXAMEN DES **CONNAISSANCES** SCIENTIFIQUES ET TECHNIQUES
  ([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 3934837)

## science

Used about 2 228 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 2 168).

- He's a fount of **knowledge**.
  C'est un puits de **science**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Apkaloo · checked, community translation · [\#11262379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11262379) [\#3292734](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3292734))

- “Shall any teach God **knowledge**, since he judges those who are high?
  Est-ce à Dieu qu’on donnera de la **science**, A lui qui gouverne les esprits célestes?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:22)

- Identifying vulnerable communities, areas and ecosystems based on and guided by the best available methodologies and tools informed by science, as appropriate, traditional and indigenous **knowledge**;
  Identifying vulnerable communities, areas and ecosystems based on and guided by the best available methodologies and tools informed by **science**, as appropriate, traditional and indigenous knowledge;
  ([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 24858589)

- A prudent man keeps his **knowledge**, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
  L’homme prudent cache sa **science**, Mais le cœur des insensés proclame la folie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 12:23)

- The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with **knowledge**.
  Les simples ont en partage la folie, Et les hommes prudents se font de la **science** une couronne.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 14:18)

## More sentences

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

- Simply stated, data mining refers to extracting or "mining" **knowledge** from large amounts of data.
  Dit simplement, l'exploration de données fait référence à l'extraction ou "l'exploration" d'un savoir à partir de grandes quantités de données.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and stephane · checked, community translation · [\#1253525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1253525) [\#2863911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2863911))

- He imparted all his **knowledge** to his son.
  Il a transmis tout son savoir à son fils.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by astyng and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2964450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2964450) [\#10780667](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10780667))

- To the best of my **knowledge**, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.
  Pour autant que je sache, ce composé chimique empêchera les germes de se multiplier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#471342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/471342) [\#559520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/559520))

## 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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