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# ladies — English to French

How English *ladies* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: ladies (29 539). By style: everyday 58 · literary 12 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 28 927 · legal and administrative 6 · UN documents 533.

## mesdames

Used about 18 328 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 18 079 · UN documents ≈ 222).

- Good evening, **ladies** and gentlemen.
  Bonsoir **Mesdames** et Messieurs !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fanty and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1597893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1597893) [\#1598006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1598006))

- This, **ladies**, which you are drinking with so tranquil an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of the sea.
  Ceci, **mesdames**, que vous buvez d'un air tranquille, est du vin de Madère, sachez-le, du cru de Coural das Freiras qui est à trois cent dix-sept toises au-dessus du niveau de la mer!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3123)

- (FR) **Ladies** and gentlemen, it is my turn now!
  (EN) **Mesdames** et Messieurs, c'est à mon tour maintenant!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1172165)

- Excellencies, **ladies** and gentlemen,
  Excellences, **Mesdames** et Messieurs,
  ([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 23171071)

- **Ladies** and gentlemen, good evening!
  **Mesdames** et Messieurs, bonsoir !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11245411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11245411) [\#11245421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11245421))

## chers

Used about 10 256 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 10 245 · UN documents ≈ 11).

- Mr President, **ladies** and gentlemen, I ask you to act quickly.
  Monsieur le Président, mes **chers** collègues, je vous demande de faire vite !
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 42275)

- My dear colleagues, **ladies** and gentlemen, today is 2 July 2009.
  **Chers** collègues, nous sommes aujourd &apos; hui le 2 juillet 2009.
  ([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 20497195)

- **Ladies** and gentlemen, the debate is now adjourned to 9.00 p.m.
  Mes **chers** collègues, je déclare interrompue la discussion commune qui sera reprise à 21 heures.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1829973)

- **Ladies** and gentlemen, we will discuss all this when we come to debate Mr Funk's report.
  Mes **chers** collègues, nous parlerons de tout cela dans le cadre du débat sur le rapport de M. Funk.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1637632)

- Mr President, **ladies** and gentlemen, Commissioner, the waste mounting is still growing.
  Monsieur le Président, **chers** collègues, Madame la Commissaire, la montagne de déchets ne cesse de croître.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 258473)

## madame

Used about 4 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4).

- Would madam care to sit down? Henriette, please see to it that the **ladies** are seated. I'm in a hurry, my dear, and I haven't got time to sit down.
  **Madame** voudrait-elle bien s'asseoir ? Henriette, faites asseoir ces dames. Je suis pressée, ma chère, et je n'ai pas le temps de m'asseoir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12999690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999690) [\#12999686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999686))

- Would madam care to sit down? Henriette, please see to it that the **ladies** are seated. I'm in a hurry, my dear, and I haven't got time to sit down.
  **Madame** voudrait-elle bien s'asseoir ? Henriette, assurez-vous que ces dames soient assises. Je suis pressée, ma chère, et je n'ai pas le temps de m'asseoir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12999690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999690) [\#12999689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999689))

- Would madam be so kind as to sit down? Henrietta, see to it that these **ladies** are seated. I am in a hurry, my dear, and have not the time to sit down myself.
  **Madame** voudrait bien s'assoir ? Henriette, veillez à ce que ces dames soient assises. Je suis pressée, ma chère, et je n'ai pas le temps de m'assoir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12999682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999682) [\#12999688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999688))

## messieurs

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

- “It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these **ladies**.”
  --C'est un papier que ces **messieurs** ont laissé pour ces dames.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3199)

- “Because,” said the waiter, “the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it to the **ladies** for an hour.”
  --Parce que ces **messieurs**, reprit le garçon, ont commandé de ne le remettre à ces dames qu'au bout d'une heure.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3201)

## More sentences

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

- I don't know any of the five **ladies**.
  Je ne connais aucune de ces cinq femmes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#252596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252596) [\#7483](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7483))

- The two **ladies** smiled at each other.
  Les deux femmes se sourirent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#72829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72829) [\#6380824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380824))

- **Ladies** use fans when it is hot.
  Les dames se servent d'éventails lorsqu'il fait chaud.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#456289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/456289) [\#11937085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11937085))

## Grammar

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