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# province — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: province (30 640), provinces (21 551). By style: everyday 16 · literary 5 · biblical 54 · parliamentary 701 · legal and administrative 6 194 · UN documents 45 221.

## province

Used about 49 128 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 53 · parliamentary ≈ 599 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 065 · UN documents ≈ 42 395). Forms: province, provinces.

- Where is Zhejiang **Province**?
  Où se trouve la **province** de Zhejiang ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jan\_OkulaJu and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13953754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953754) [\#13953774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953774))

- M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own **province** and never beheld Paris, would have been one of these men.
  M. Félix Tholomyès, resté dans sa **province** et n'ayant jamais vu Paris, serait un de ces hommes-là.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4186)

- Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the **province** of Babylon.
  Après cela, le roi fit prospérer Schadrac, Méschac et Abed-Nego, dans la **province** de Babylone.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 3:30)

- The most popular areas are the poor **provinces**.
  Les zones les plus prisées sont les **provinces** pauvres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 145124)

- 40 % for the other **provinces**,
  40 % pour les autres **provinces**.
  ([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 535088)

## More sentences

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

- We guarantee the lowest price in language academies in the **province** of Québec.
  Nous garantissons le prix le plus bas pour une école de langue au Québec (Canada).
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeanne and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#460313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460313) [\#416849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/416849))

- They were from the same **province**.
  Ils étaient de la même région.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and madjidoumnia · checked, community translation · [\#11900930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11900930) [\#11744961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11744961))

- How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the **provinces** has become a slave!
  Eh quoi! Elle est assise solitaire, cette ville si peuplée! Elle est semblable à une veuve! Grande entre les nations, souveraine parmi les états, Elle est réduite à la servitude!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 1:1)

## 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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