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# library — English to French

How English *library* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: libraries (7 343), library (25 655). By style: everyday 325 · literary 9 · parliamentary 452 · legal and administrative 747 · UN documents 31 465.

## bibliothèque

Used about 27 667 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 320 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 419 · legal and administrative ≈ 700 · UN documents ≈ 26 221). Forms: bibliothèque, bibliothèques.

- I love **libraries**.
  J'adore les **bibliothèques**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3823055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3823055) [\#4682000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4682000))

- I have all the philosophers in my **library** gilded on the edges.”
  J'ai dans ma **bibliothèque** tous mes philosophes dorés sur tranche.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 505)

- I have my **library**, and in fact I enjoy reading.
  J'ai ma **bibliothèque**, j'aime lire, en effet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1921812)

- **Library** and e-resources
  **Bibliothèque** et ressources électroniques
  ([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 4472053)

- No. of public **libraries**
  Nombre de **bibliothèques** publiques
  ([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 24490091)

## dag

Used about 656 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 656).

- Thursday, 9 April, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Dag Ham- marskjöld **Library** Auditorium
  Thursday, 9 April, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the **Dag** Ham- marskjöld Library Auditorium
  ([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 5347277)

- The briefing will be held on Thursday, 12 April 2001, from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld **Library** Auditorium.
  The briefing will be held on Thursday, 12 April 2001, from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. in the **Dag** Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium.
  ([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 8296228)

## archives

Used about 8 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 8).

- Българска национална филмотека (Bulgarian National Film **Library**)
  Българска национална филмотека (**Archives** cinématographiques nationales bulgares)
  ([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 907399)

## More sentences

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

- Kawa is an implementation of Scheme for JVM that allows one to take advantage of all the **libraries** of Java.
  Kawa est une implémentation de Scheme pour JVM qui permet de profiter de toutes les librairies de Java.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#1721673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1721673) [\#6846779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6846779))

- I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front of the big public **library**.
  J'ai passé tout à l'heure rue Richelieu devant la grosse librairie publique.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23654)

- Is it not enough to have given all my goods to my judges, my plate to Monsieur de Torcy, my **library** to Master Pierre Doriolle, my tapestry to the governor of the Roussillon?
  N'est-ce donc pas assez qu'on ait donné tous mes biens à mes juges, ma vaisselle à monsieur de Torcy, ma librairie à maître Pierre Doriolle, ma tapisserie au gouverneur du Roussillon?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7471)

## 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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