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# migrants — English to French

How English *migrants* 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: migrants (49 261). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 1 332 · legal and administrative 766 · UN documents 47 156.

## migrants

Used about 45 818 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 916 · legal and administrative ≈ 686 · UN documents ≈ 44 209).

- Many of the **migrants** are war refugees.
  Beaucoup de ces **migrants** sont des réfugiés de guerre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and saillier · checked, community translation · [\#4478353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4478353) [\#11242004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11242004))

- Children of **Migrants** (vote)
  Enfants de **migrants** (vote)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1229349)

- SMUGGLING OF **MIGRANTS** BY SEA
  TRAFIC ILLICITE DE **MIGRANTS** PAR MER
  ([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 824036)

- 18/21. The human rights of **migrants** 52
  18/21 Droits de l &apos; homme des **migrants** 56
  ([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 25680110)

- Some **migrants** endure slavelike conditions.
  Certains **migrants** endurent des conditions de vie proches de l'esclavage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8298930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8298930) [\#13308090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13308090))

## irrégulière

Used about 998 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 16 · UN documents ≈ 982).

- impact of regularisation measures on migration pattern of prospective (irregular) **migrants**,
  l'impact des mesures de régularisation sur le modèle migratoire des candidats à l'immigration (en situation **irrégulière**),
  ([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 4226637)

- The Philippines had requested the Governments of Greece, Italy and the United Arab Emirates to protect the basic human rights of undocumented **migrants**.
  Les Philippines avaient demandé aux gouvernements de la Grèce, de l &apos; Italie et des Émirats arabes unis de protéger les droits fondamentaux des immigrés en situation **irrégulière**.
  ([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 3029334)

## immigrés

Used about 226 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 194 · legal and administrative ≈ 32).

- It is here that most **migrants** arrive.
  C’est là qu’arrive la majeure partie des **immigrés**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 727163)

- the promotion and facilitation of the return of illegal **migrants**; and
  les mesures nécessaires pour encourager et faciliter le retour des **immigrés** clandestins; et
  ([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 124201)

- Most of these **migrants** enter legally, because they are EU citizens.
  La majeure partie de ces **immigrés** entrent en toute légalité, puisque ce sont des ressortissants de l'UE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1237040)

- Article 49(3) of the Agreement sets out the obligations for the Contracting Parties on readmission of illegal **migrants**.
  L'article 49, paragraphe 3, de l'accord énonce les obligations incombant aux parties contractantes en matière de réadmission des **immigrés** clandestins.
  ([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 3125639)

- The last speaker rightly pointed out the extremely high unemployment among **migrants**.
  Le dernier orateur a fait remarquer à juste titre le taux de chômage extrêmement élevé chez les **immigrés**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 549562)

## More sentences

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

- As long as these people are not returned to their home country immediately, without repatriation aid, we will constantly be overwhelmed by waves of economic **migrants**.
  Tant que ces émigrés ne sont pas immédiatement renvoyés chez eux, sans aide au rapatriement, d'autres vagues d'immigration économique nous submergeront.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494482)

- Far from being a solution this will only give illegal **migrants** and those seeking to enter the EU the illusion that they will be given legal status sooner or later.
  Loin d'être une solution, elle donne l'illusion aux illégaux et aux aspirants à l'immigration qu'ils seront régularisés tôt ou tard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 969099)

- This freedom would effectively be a joke if **migrants** could not practise their trade or profession in the country to which they have chosen to move.
  Cette libre circulation serait en effet une farce sans la possibilité d'exercer un métier dans le pays de son choix.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1999763)

## Grammar

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