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# pupils — English to French

How English *pupils* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: pupils (20 133). By style: everyday 87 · literary 4 · parliamentary 369 · legal and administrative 236 · UN documents 19 437.

## élèves

Used about 14 359 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 76 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 308 · legal and administrative ≈ 206 · UN documents ≈ 13 768).

- The **pupils** are bored.
  Les **élèves** s'ennuient.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10746111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10746111) [\#7416104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7416104))

- Sometimes the **pupils** of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob.
  On permettait quelquefois aux **élèves** pensionnaires, comme grande récréation, de leur rendre visite; ce qui fait que ces jeunes mémoires ont gardé entre autres le souvenir de la mère Saint-Basile, de la mère Sainte-Scolastique et de la mère Jacob.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10692)

- These **pupils** are therefore already excluded when they leave school.
  Ces **élèves** sont donc en marge dès la sortie de l'école.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799942)

- Residence permit issued to school **pupils**
  Titre de séjour délivré aux **élèves**
  ([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 432018)

- Junior high school (**pupils**)
  École secondaire du 1er cycle (**élèves**)
  ([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 26078215)

## écoles

Used about 405 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 405). Forms: école, écoles.

- 5. Distribution of refugee **pupils** receiving education in UNRWA schools 64
  5. Répartition des enfants réfugiés bénéficiant d &apos; un enseignement dans les **écoles** de l &apos; UNRWA 73
  ([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 1439931)

## étudiants

Used about 45 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 15 · legal and administrative ≈ 25).

- All the **pupils** were there.
  Tous les **étudiants** étaient présents.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Archibald · checked, community translation · [\#10047064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10047064) [\#9401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9401))

- How can good and bad **pupils** be lumped together?
  Comment est-il possible de mettre dans un même sac les bons et les mauvais **étudiants**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1674353)

- **Pupils** in participating schools throughout the Union will elect their candidates.
  Les **étudiants** des écoles participantes de toute l’Union éliront leurs candidats.
  ([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 4772524)

- This school has many **pupils**.
  Cette école a beaucoup d'**étudiants**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and jakov · checked, community translation · [\#10665338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10665338) [\#885644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/885644))

- Exchanges between **pupils** and encounters between teachers carry more weight than any number of glossy brochures.
  L'échange d'**étudiants** et les rencontres entre professeurs pèsent davantage que toutes les brochures publiées, toutes rutilantes soient-elles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1960726)

## enseignants

Used about 15 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 15).

- Teachers and **pupils** are protesting, and a new civil society is on the rise.
  Les **enseignants** et les étudiants protestent et une nouvelle société civile se fait jour.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 828457)

- Because of his problem, he was marginalised and bullied by fellow **pupils** and teachers did very little to intervene.
  En raison de son problème, il était marginalisé et tyrannisé par ces camarades et les **enseignants** n'ont pas fait grand chose pour intervenir.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 972477)

## scolaire

Used about 5 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 5).

- They also explained that the number of eligible **pupils** increased by roughly 20 % from 1997 to 2003 (15429 to 18454).
  Elles ont expliqué en outre que le nombre d'écoliers pouvant prétendre au transport **scolaire** avait augmenté d'environ 20 % entre 1997 et 2003 (passant de 15429 à 18454).
  ([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 4163754)

## More sentences

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

- That's why so many **pupils** are absent today.
  C'est pourquoi il manque aujourd'hui tant d'écoliers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12419983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12419983) [\#452620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/452620))

- None of the **pupils** were absent.
  Pas un étudiant n'était absent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12455455](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12455455) [\#8860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8860))

- The **pupils** of her eyes had the blackness of a deep chasm.
  Les pupilles de ses yeux avaient la noirceur d'un gouffre profond.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#2789128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2789128) [\#2789121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2789121))

## Grammar

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