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# mother — English to French

How English *mother* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mother (34 242), mothers (21 854). By style: everyday 1 596 · literary 211 · biblical 289 · parliamentary 1 677 · legal and administrative 1 182 · UN documents 51 141.

## mère

Used about 41 068 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 522 · literary ≈ 204 · biblical ≈ 253 · parliamentary ≈ 1 275 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 056 · UN documents ≈ 36 758). Forms: mère, mères.

- This is my **mother**.
  C'est ma **mère**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#413771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413771) [\#544849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/544849))

- “**Mother**, it was the dog.
  --**Mère**, c'est le chien.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3576)

- We are orphans and fatherless. Our **mothers** are as widows.
  Nous sommes orphelins, sans père; Nos **mères** sont comme des veuves.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 5:3)

- **Mothers** have always worked.
  Les **mères** de famille ont toujours travaillé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1820553)

- Citizenship of the **mother**
  Citoyenneté de la **mère**
  ([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 2120318)

## enfants

Used about 1 106 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 35 · UN documents ≈ 1 065). Forms: enfant, enfants.

- But we were gentle among you, like a nursing **mother** cherishes her own children.
  mais nous avons été pleins de douceur au milieu de vous. De même qu’une nourrice prend un tendre soin de ses **enfants**,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TH 2:7)

- These **mothers** and their children have to resort to begging in the streets of Moscow.
  Ces femmes et ces **enfants** deviennent des mendiants à Moscou.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732620)

- **Mother**—tongue teaching usually took place in the first four grades of primary school, and was used as a tool to help the child to learn Norwegian.
  L’enseignement dans la langue maternelle dure généralement les quatre années de l’école primaire et sert à aider l’**enfant** à apprendre le norvégien.
  ([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 3766023)

- That applies to preventive health protection measures at the workplace for the **mother** and for the unborn child.
  Cela vaut pour les mesures préventives relatives à la santé sur le lieu de travail, tant pour les femmes que pour les **enfants** avant la naissance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 76691)

- 426. In 2002, **mother**-to-child transmission accounted for 5 per cent of those infected. Among the children infected, the number of girls was 254, as compared with 216 boys (Statistiques sanitaires 2002, p. 7).
  426. La transmission mèreenfant représentait en 2002 5 % des malades et le nombre de filles parmi les **enfants** malades était de 254 contre 216 pour les garçons (Statistiques sanitaires 2002, p. 7).
  ([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 13567004)

## More sentences

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

- Repetition is the **mother** of memory.
  La répétition est la source de la mémoire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bluepie88 and Wittydev · checked, community translation · [\#663817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/663817) [\#1151645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1151645))

- Spanish is his **mother** tongue.
  L'espagnol est sa langue maternelle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and minti · checked, community translation · [\#473821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/473821) [\#407569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407569))

- My **mother** tongue is Polish.
  Ma langue maternelle est le polonais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by starzykj and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#1359534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1359534) [\#3831618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3831618))

## 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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