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# refugee — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: refugee (63 127), refugees (137 366). By style: everyday 41 · literary 3 · parliamentary 5 832 · legal and administrative 1 436 · UN documents 193 181.

## réfugiés

Used about 175 977 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 468 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 436 · UN documents ≈ 169 033). Forms: réfugié, réfugiés.

- We're **refugees**.
  On est des **réfugiés**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#9133117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9133117) [\#10705545](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10705545))

- Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical School, **refugees** of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column.
  Puis venait une multitude innombrable, agitée, étrange, les sectionnaires des Amis du Peuple, l'École de droit, l'École de médecine, les **réfugiés** de toutes les nations, drapeaux espagnols, italiens, allemands, polonais, drapeaux tricolores horizontaux, toutes les bannières possibles, des enfants agitant des branches vertes, des tailleurs de pierre et des charpentiers qui faisaient grève en ce moment-là même, des imprimeurs reconnaissables à leurs bonnets de papier, marchant deux par deux, trois par trois, poussant des cris, agitant presque tous des bâtons, quelques-uns des sabres, sans ordre et pourtant avec une seule âme, tantôt une cohue, tantôt une colonne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23014)

- Resolution on the situation of the Kurdish **refugees**
  Résolution sur la situation des **réfugiés** kurdes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1802389)

- Granting of **refugee** status
  Octroi du statut de **réfugié**
  ([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 427552)

- III. Protection of **refugees**
  III. Protection des **réfugiés**
  ([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 27314429)

## More sentences

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

- I'm not a **refugee**.
  Je ne suis pas une réfugiée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#10719347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10719347) [\#11267131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11267131))

- The **refugee** camp was ravaged by a fire.
  Le camp de migrants a été ravagé par un incendie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6009132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6009132) [\#6008310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6008310))

- He fancied that some plot might be in process of formation against the unhappy **refugee**.
  Il songeait qu'il se tramait peut-être quelque complot contre la malheureuse réfugiée.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6960)

## 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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