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# parallel — English to French

How English *parallel* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: parallel (25 473), parallels (395). By style: everyday 19 · literary 3 · parliamentary 1 547 · legal and administrative 3 504 · UN documents 20 795.

## parallèle

Used about 15 589 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 929 · UN documents ≈ 11 481). Forms: parallèle, parallèlement, parallèles.

- It has no **parallel**.
  Ça n'a pas de **parallèle**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#42872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42872) [\#3647393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3647393))

- There Dom Claude found a boatman, who, for a few farthings in Parisian coinage, rowed him up the Seine as far as the point of the city, and landed him on that tongue of abandoned land where the reader has already beheld Gringoire dreaming, and which was prolonged beyond the king’s gardens, **parallel** to the Ile du Passeur-aux-Vaches.
  Là, dom Claude trouva un batelier qui, pour quelques deniers parisis, lui fit remonter la Seine jusqu'à la pointe de la Cité, et le déposa sur cette langue de terre abandonnée où le lecteur a déjà vu rêver Gringoire, et qui se prolongeait au delà des jardins du roi, **parallèlement** à l'île du Passeur-aux-Vaches.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5872)

- Surely there are interesting **parallels**!
  Ce sont là des **parallèles** intéressants!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1625469)

- Southern limit: **Parallel** 34°18′00″N
  Limite sud: **parallèle** 34°18′00″N
  ([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 312671)

- (b) **Parallel** breakout groups:
  b) Groupes de travail **parallèles**
  ([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 16180788)

## More sentences

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

- The promenade runs **parallel** to the shore.
  La promenade longe la côte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and gall · checked, community translation · [\#324526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324526) [\#481864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481864))

- She's very good at **parallel** parking.
  Elle est très douée pour effectuer des créneaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1690794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1690794) [\#1696500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1696500))

- It was something precisely **parallel** which took place on the afternoon of the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides.
  C'était précisément quelque chose de pareil qui se passait dans l'après-midi du 6 juin au bord de la Seine, sur la berge de la rive droite, un peu au delà du pont des Invalides.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27730)

## 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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