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Forms: prostitution, prostitutions. - Mary turned to **prostitution**. Marie se tourna vers la **prostitution**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4629645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4629645) [\#4629678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4629678)) - “Bohemian girl,” the president continued, “have you avowed all your deeds of magic, **prostitution**, and assassination on Phœbus de Châteaupers.” --Fille bohème, reprit le président, vous avez avoué tous vos faits de magie, de **prostitution** et d'assassinat sur Phoebus de Châteaupers?» ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5096) - **Prostitution**, wine, and new wine take away understanding. La **prostitution**, le vin et le moût, font perdre le sens. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 4:11) - Our view is that **prostitution** is always forced. Nous sommes d'avis que la **prostitution** est toujours forcée. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411352) - Trafficking in human beings for the purposes of the exploitation of the **prostitution** of minors or other forms of their sexual exploitation Traite des mineurs à des fins d’exploitation de leur **prostitution** ou d’autres formes d’exploitation sexuelle ([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 1669407) ## pornographie Used about 2 000 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 000). - **prostitution** and child pornography, as well as enfants et la **pornographie** impliquant des 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 3987077) - child **prostitution** and child pornography des enfants et la **pornographie** mettant en scène des 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 13533391) - Le Comité examine la question de la coopération avec le Rap-porteur spécial sur la vente d’enfants, la **prostitutions** des enfants et la pornographie impliquant des enfants, Mme Ofelia Calcetas-Santos. Le Comité examine la question de la coopération avec le Rap-porteur spécial sur la vente d’enfants, la prostitutions des enfants et la **pornographie** impliquant des enfants, Mme Ofelia Calcetas-Santos. ([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 6485162) ## enfants Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1). - Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your **prostitution**, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. et vos **enfants** paîtront quarante années dans le désert, et porteront la peine de vos infidélités, jusqu’à ce que vos cadavres soient tous tombés dans le désert. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 14:33) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Mary turned to **prostitution**. Marie s'est tournée vers le tapinage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#4629645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4629645) [\#14033273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14033273)) - In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is **prostitution** in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. Dans la maison d’Israël j’ai vu des choses horribles: Là Éphraïm se prostitue, Israël se souille. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 6:10) - Because she took her **prostitution** lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. Par sa criante impudicité Israël a souillé le pays, elle a commis un adultère avec la pierre et le bois. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 3:9) ## 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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