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# population — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: population (279 803), populations (46 528). By style: everyday 129 · literary 5 · parliamentary 10 805 · legal and administrative 7 767 · UN documents 307 625.

## population

Used about 292 278 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 119 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 9 454 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 120 · UN documents ≈ 275 581). Forms: population, populations.

- What is the **population** of France?
  Quelle est la **population** de France ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by witbrock and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#427817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/427817) [\#910576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/910576))

- The army was mined at the same time as the **population**, as was proved subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard.
  L'armée était minée en même temps que la **population**, comme le prouvèrent plus tard les mouvements de Belfort, de Lunéville et d'Épinal.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18526)

- Bring the **population** of the Third World to Europe ...
  Amener en Europe la **population** du tiers-monde ...
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1554417)

- Target animals and animal **population**
  Animaux et **population** animale visés
  ([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 2506669)

- (f) **Population** and development
  f) **Population** et développement
  ([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 15370938)

## autochtones

Used about 113 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113).

- Now then, the great need of the indigenous **population** cannot brook any further diplomatic procrastination on the part of the UN Security Council.
  L'immense détresse des **autochtones** ne souffre plus de tergiversations diplomatiques de la part du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2008505)

## More sentences

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

- The most severe problem at present is that of over-**population**.
  Le problème le plus grave actuellement est celui de la surpopulation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#239584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239584) [\#1384934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1384934))

- Do you have any idea what the **population** of Tokyo is?
  Savez-vous combien de gens vivent à Tokyo ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#279759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279759) [\#3323587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3323587))

- What's the **population** of Belgium?
  Combien d'habitants y a-t-il en Belgique ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#12808288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12808288) [\#11164167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11164167))

## 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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