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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1655827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1655827) [\#1662436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1662436)) - “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) - Their **parents** and children are not allowed access to healthcare. Ni les **parents** ni leurs enfants n'ont accès aux soins de santé. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 911084) - 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 6 086 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 · UN documents ≈ 6 075). Forms: enfant, enfants. - 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) - 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) - Former adoptive **parents** in cases where adoption was terminated by a court through the **parents** ' fault; Les personnes qui ont déjà adopté un **enfant** dont la justice a annulé l ' adoption par leur faute; ([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 26079955) - Also, any child born outside of Jamaica is entitled to Jamaican citizenship if his mother or father or both **parents** are Jamaicans. De même, tout **enfant** né hors de Jamaïque a droit à la citoyenneté jamaïcaine si sa mère ou son père ou les deux sont des Jamaïcains. ([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 26022802) ## leurs Used about 25 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25). - 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)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - 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) - This grant shall be paid once only, where both **parents** as staff members of the Centre are potentially eligible. Si le père et la mère sont membres du personnel du Centre potentiellement bénéficiaire de cette allocation, celle-ci n'est versée qu'une fois. ([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 22082) - This grant shall be paid once only, where both **parents** as staff members of the Centre are potentially eligible. Si le père et la mère sont membres du personnel du Centre potentiellement bénéficiaire de cette allocation, celle-ci n'est versée qu'une fois. ([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 35175) ## 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. 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