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# problem — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: problem (135 106), problems (180 494). By style: everyday 1 903 · literary 13 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 55 150 · legal and administrative 5 927 · UN documents 252 605.

## problème

Used about 253 936 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 844 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 49 980 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 754 · UN documents ≈ 197 348). Forms: problème, problèmes.

- I've got **problems**.
  J'ai des **problèmes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#11563261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11563261) [\#2371267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2371267))

- Second **problem**: To share it.
  Deuxième **problème**: La répartir.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18275)

- That is the **problem**.
  Tel est le **problème**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1633983)

- Other type of health **problem**
  Autre type de **problème** de santé
  ([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 4723725)

- A. **Problems** of visibility
  A. **Problèmes** de visibilité
  ([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 5997745)

## More sentences

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

- It's always the same **problem**, Mary gets up too late!
  C'est toujours la même chose, Marie se lève trop tard !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by scrungus and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6392438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6392438) [\#6389998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6389998))

- I have a lot of **problems** with being productive at night.
  J'ai beaucoup de mal à être productif en soirée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by acell and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#9136536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9136536) [\#8350835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8350835))

- More money means more **problems**.
  Plus d'argent, plus de soucis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#7968282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7968282) [\#1550342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1550342))

## 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

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