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# military — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: militaries (202), military (231 910). By style: everyday 65 · literary 11 · parliamentary 8 518 · legal and administrative 9 891 · UN documents 213 627.

## militaire

Used about 143 922 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 7 371 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 418 · UN documents ≈ 129 066). Forms: militaire, militaires.

- My dad was in the **military**.
  Mon père était **militaire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11383645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11383645) [\#13372152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13372152))

- Then he made the **military** salute.
  Puis il fit le salut **militaire**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25174)

- The **military** exclusion zone is, first and foremost, a political act.
  L'exclusion **militaire**, c'est d'abord un acte politique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1513935)

- Received **military** training in Egypt.
  A reçu une formation **militaire** en Égypte.
  ([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 4278824)

- Reduction of **military** budgets
  Réduction des budgets **militaires**
  ([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 23508208)

## armée

Used about 31 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 491 · legal and administrative ≈ 206 · UN documents ≈ 31 154). Forms: armée, armées.

- Tom joined the **military**.
  Tom a rejoint l'**armée**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#13179651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13179651) [\#5393534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5393534))

- Since 1999, the Serbian **military** and officials have been replaced by other colonialists.
  À l'**armée** et aux responsables serbes ont succédé d'autres colonialistes en 1999.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 920125)

- Employing decryption, designed or modified for **military** or governmental services, to gain access to GNSS secured signal/data; or
  utilisant le déchiffrement, conçu ou modifié pour les services de l’**armée** ou de l’État, pour avoir accès aux signaux/données sécurisé(e)s du GNSS; ou
  ([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 3744498)

- State **Militaries** and UN Peacekeeping Troops
  **Armées** nationales et forces de maintien de la paix
  ([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 13908059)

- Do you have a **military** background?
  Avez-vous fait l'**armée** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by soliloquist and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#8074084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8074084) [\#13883194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13883194))

## forces

Used about 206 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 206).

- Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces responsible for the **military** involvement in violence against peaceful protesters.
  Chef d'état-major des **forces** armées; responsable de la participation de l'armée à la répression contre des manifestants pacifiques.
  ([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 2256597)

## More sentences

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

- Is it a **military** secret or something?
  Est-ce un secret défense, ou quoi ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3730710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3730710) [\#4060773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4060773))

- He criticized the war after leaving the **military**.
  Il critiqua la guerre après avoir quitté les armes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#803301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803301) [\#2343465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343465))

- “So, Gringoire, you have never cherished envy for those handsome fellows in their **military** doublets?”
  --Donc, Gringoire, vous n'avez jamais porté envie à ces beaux fils en hoquetons de guerre?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6576)

## 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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