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# neighbouring — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: neighbouring (29 499). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 2 276 · legal and administrative 1 363 · UN documents 25 853.

## voisins

Used about 23 664 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 802 · legal and administrative ≈ 852 · UN documents ≈ 21 006). Forms: voisin, voisins.

- It's a **neighbouring** country.
  C'est un pays **voisin**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Smoky and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#8400104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8400104) [\#8317308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8317308))

- Peace and democracy in Iraq will also rub off on the **neighbouring** countries.
  La paix et la démocratie en Irak déteindront sur les pays **voisins**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 607297)

- Cooperation with **neighbouring** third countries
  Coopération avec les pays tiers **voisins**
  ([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 3026988)

- Rough diamond industry in **neighbouring** States 64
  Industrie des diamants bruts dans les pays **voisins** 69
  ([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 21366664)

- Germany borders nine **neighbouring** European countries.
  L'Allemagne borde neuf états **voisins** européens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12727149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12727149) [\#1237882](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1237882))

## limitrophes

Used about 1 295 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 47 · legal and administrative ≈ 170 · UN documents ≈ 1 077).

- This is why South Africa' s **neighbouring** countries can also benefit from European development projects.
  Les pays **limitrophes** de l' Afrique du Sud peuvent ainsi également profiter des projets de développement européens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 48393)

- It argues that is also actively involved in the markets of **neighbouring** and other countries.
  Elle fait valoir qu’elle participe également de façon active aux marchés des pays **limitrophes** et d’autres pays.
  ([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 5089249)

- (a) From **neighbouring** countries: identity document
  a) Pays **limitrophes**: pièce d &apos; identité
  ([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 22454285)

- appreciable differences in market shares or substantial price differences between **neighbouring** areas,
  les différences appréciables de parts de marché ou les écarts de prix substantiels dans des territoires **limitrophes**,
  ([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 3863169)

- 40. The ESCWA region also suffers from scarcity of water resources, which are shared among **neighbouring** countries.
  La région de la CESAO souffre aussi du manque de ressources en eau que se partagent des pays **limitrophes**.
  ([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 8010114)

## pays

Used about 662 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 95 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 539).

- Europe benefits greatly from stable governments in all its **neighbouring** countries.
  L’Europe profite grandement de la stabilité des gouvernements dans tous les **pays** avoisinants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 625585)

- within a 10 km radius of the establishment, including, where appropriate, the territory of a **neighbouring** country, there has either been:
  autour duquel, dans un rayon de 10 km, y compris, le cas échéant, sur le territoire d’un **pays** limitrophe:
  ([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 5205530)

- 31. In comparison to **neighbouring** countries, Liberia has substantial forest cover (about 40 per cent of land area, or 4.6 million hectares; see figure 1).
  Comparé aux **pays** avoisinants, le Libéria a un couvert forestier appréciable \[40 % environ de la superficie, soit 4,6 millions d &apos; hectares (voir fig. 1)\].
  ([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 11036693)

- By offering short-term location incentives, a government damages the economies of **neighbouring** Member States.
  Les avantages locaux à court terme accordé à un **pays** sont au détriment des autres États de l'Union européenne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 134472)

## More sentences

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

- There's a bus stop **neighbouring** our school.
  Il y a un arrêt de bus au voisinage de notre école.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LittleBoy and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#868559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/868559) [\#865906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/865906))

- Do you know the myth of these two **neighbouring** families that have hated each other for decades without really remembering why?
  Connais-tu le mythe de ces deux familles voisines qui se détestent depuis des décennies sans se souvenir exactement pourquoi ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13864307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13864307) [\#13416324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13416324))

- Is it not possible to provide special support for wind and hydro power in **neighbouring** Albania?
  Ne serait-il pas possible de fournir un soutien spécial à l'énergie éolienne et hydroélectrique à l'Albanie voisine?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1008169)

## 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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