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Forms: parent, parents. - Be a good **parent**. Sois un bon **parent**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10878900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10878900) [\#12476916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12476916)) - “Are your **parents** alive?” --Avez-vous vos **parents**?» ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1625) - Children, obey your **parents** in the Lord, for this is right. Enfants, obéissez à vos **parents**, selon le Seigneur, car cela est juste. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:1) - In this case, both **parent** and child lose out. Dans ce cas, les **parents** et l'enfant sont perdants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1475525) - If the **parents** are married: Si les **parents** sont mariés: ([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 821670) ## enfants Used about 9 693 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 48 · UN documents ≈ 9 608). Forms: enfant, enfants. - An increasing number of American **parents** are opting to home-school their children. Un nombre croissant d'Étasuniens optent pour scolariser leurs **enfants** à domicile. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#624038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/624038) [\#815073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/815073)) - Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their **parents**. Les **enfants** des enfants sont la couronne des vieillards, Et les pères sont la gloire de leurs enfants. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 17:6) - I would simply like to propose going to Brazil, for example, to see what becomes of children there who are from broken or single-**parent** families. Je voudrais simplement proposer d'aller voir au Brésil, par exemple, ce que deviennent les **enfants** des familles éclatées ou monoparentales. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1944788) - do all the children live with both **parents**? Yes tous les **enfants** vivent-ils avec eux? ([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 823847) - The **parents** may not determine different surnames to their mutual children. Ceuxci ne peuvent pas choisir des noms de famille différents pour leurs **enfants**. ([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 17080374) ## mère Used about 4 238 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 195 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 114 · UN documents ≈ 2 883). - He's the new CEO from the **parent** company in France. Il est le nouveau PDG de la compagnie **mère** en France. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#283280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283280) [\#390290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390290)) - Let us hope that this **parent** will in future bear other children like this report. Espérons qu'à l'avenir, cette **mère** sache enfanter d'autres rapports tels que celui-ci. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 349817) - Attributable to owners of the **parent** Attribuable aux propriétaires de la société **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 3911596) - After the sale of a NewCo, the **parent** SOE is liquidated through the sale of any remaining assets. Après la vente d ' une nouvelle entreprise, l ' entreprise **mère** du secteur socialisé est liquidée par la vente de tout le reste de ses avoirs. ([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 18985060) - He's the new CEO from the **parent** company in France. Il est le nouveau PDG de la société **mère** en France. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#283280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283280) [\#561851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/561851)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - His father died in the war, so he grew up in a single-**parent** family. Son père est mort pendant la guerre donc il a grandi dans une famille monoparentale. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5782860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5782860) [\#8646451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8646451)) - Meanwhile he would be gaining a living, and asking for nothing from his **parents**. En attendant il y gagnerait sa vie sans demander rien à sa famille. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2129) - They form 55 % of the long-term unemployed and 90 % are heads of one-**parent** families. Elles sont 55 % des chômeurs de longue durée, 90 % des chefs de familles monoparentales. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1642913) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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