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# property — English to French

How English *property* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: properties (16 092), property (120 413). By style: everyday 81 · literary 8 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 2 830 · legal and administrative 14 601 · UN documents 118 974.

## biens

Used about 51 616 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 531 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 738 · UN documents ≈ 48 333).

- They lost their **property**.
  Ils ont perdu leurs **biens**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#802169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802169) [\#11277474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11277474))

- All these were the rulers of the **property** which was King David’s.
  Jaziz, l’Hagarénien, sur les brebis. Tous ceux-là étaient intendants des **biens** du roi David.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 27:31)

- Already, British embassies around the world are selling off **properties**.
  Les ambassades britanniques partout dans le monde sont déjà en train de liquider des **biens**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294543)

- Acquisition of immovable **property**
  Acquisition de **biens** immobiliers
  ([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 2753560)

- Non-expendable and expendable **property**
  **Biens** durables et non durables
  ([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 25524322)

## propriété

Used about 45 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 50 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 710 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 757 · UN documents ≈ 35 940). Forms: propriété, propriétés.

- You are my **property**.
  Vous êtes ma **propriété**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7793694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7793694) [\#8552915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8552915))

- And, as though the sun had possessed the **property** of melting the avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:—
  Et comme si ce soleil eût eu la **propriété** de faire fondre dans son cerveau des avalanches d'argot, elle poursuivit:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16078)

- “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his **property**.
  Dans cette année de jubilé, chacun de vous retournera dans sa **propriété**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 25:13)

- How many **properties** must be lost?
  Combien de **propriétés** doivent être perdues?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 985622)

- Indication of T **properties**
  Indication des **propriétés** T:
  ([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 2354690)

## intellectuelle

Used about 29 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 29).

- That cannot be violated; it is a vital principle. Secondly, most important is the right of creative people to their intellectual **property**.
  Le deuxième principe par ordre d'importance, c'est le droit de l'auteur sur sa production **intellectuelle**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1951781)

## More sentences

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

- **Property** prices are going up.
  Les prix de l'immobilier augmentent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dryhay and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1930433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1930433) [\#12020478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12020478))

- Who's the owner of this **property**?
  Qui est propriétaire de ce bien ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#687760](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/687760) [\#12619812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12619812))

- Some video game publishers now prioritize investing in original **property** over acquiring existing franchises.
  Certains éditeurs de jeux vidéo provilégient désormais les investissements dans les œuvres originales plutôt que d'acquérir des franchises existantes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13952683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13952683) [\#13952684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13952684))

## 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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