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# missing — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: missing (22 272). By style: everyday 204 · literary 8 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 369 · legal and administrative 2 063 · UN documents 18 623.

## disparues

Used about 6 243 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 114 · legal and administrative ≈ 258 · UN documents ≈ 5 820). Forms: disparu, disparues.

- My child is **missing**.
  Mon enfant a **disparu**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tokzyk and xhlulu · checked, community translation · [\#10698694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10698694) [\#10711269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10711269))

- Four thousand people are still **missing**.
  Quatre mille personnes sont portées **disparues**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 578630)

- Preparatory action — Enhancing regional cooperation on the issue of **missing** persons following the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia
  Action préparatoire — Renforcer la coopération régionale sur la question des personnes **disparues** à la suite des conflits en ex-Yougoslavie
  ([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 4474253)

- Draft resolution A/C.3/63/L.36: **Missing** persons
  Projet de résolution A/C.3/63/L.36 : Personnes **disparues**
  ([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 20123942)

- Tom's parents are **missing**.
  Les parents de Tom ont **disparu**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#5827836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5827836) [\#5834920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5834920))

## manque

Used about 3 870 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 285 · legal and administrative ≈ 387 · UN documents ≈ 3 104). Forms: manquantes, manque.

- Are you **missing** Tom?
  Tom te **manque**-t-il ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#6440489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6440489) [\#7415784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7415784))

- A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are **missing**.
  Une partie des mots se perdait dans le trajet du larynx aux lèvres comme sur un clavier où il **manque** des notes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16027)

- What is sadly **missing** is a timetable.
  Il **manque**, malheureusement, un calendrier.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 860103)

- Annex X, for **missing** quantities,
  l’annexe X, pour les quantités **manquantes**,
  ([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 989904)

- Results of the transfer of **missing** loss element data
  Résultats du transfert de données **manquantes** relatives à des éléments de perte
  ([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 6626143)

## défaut

Used about 775 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 171 · legal and administrative ≈ 215 · UN documents ≈ 388).

- Search in the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these will be **missing**. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
  Consultez le livre de l’Éternel, et lisez! Aucun d’eux ne fera **défaut**, Ni l’un ni l’autre ne manqueront; Car sa bouche l’a ordonné. C’est son esprit qui les rassemblera.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 34:16)

- All of this is **missing** from the Rocard report.
  Tout cela fait **défaut** dans le rapport Rocard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1630205)

- END OF TAF IF THE FORECAST IS **MISSING**.
  FIN DE LA TAF SI LA PRÉVISION FAIT **DÉFAUT**
  ([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 4030676)

- What is **missing** is better costing and better prevention, with specific and dedicated budgets within national programmes for prevention.
  Ce qui fait **défaut**, c &apos; est un meilleur financement et une meilleure prévention à partir de budgets spécifiquement consacrés aux programmes nationaux de prévention.
  ([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 14562121)

- Now that we know what is **missing**, let me concentrate on the **missing** part.
  À présent que nous savons ce qui fait **défaut**, je me concentrerai sur cette partie manquante.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 807471)

## More sentences

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

- How did you know one was **missing**?
  Comment savais-tu qu'il en manquait un ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2891322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2891322) [\#5535106](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5535106))

- The rescue party searched for the **missing** passengers.
  L'équipe de secours est partie à la recherche des passagers disparus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gall · checked, community translation · [\#29516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29516) [\#1683325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1683325))

- I think there's something we're all **missing**.
  Je pense qu'il y a quelque chose dont nous manquons tous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2396127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396127) [\#2398111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2398111))

## 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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