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# refugees — English to French

How English *refugees* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: refugees (137 366). By style: everyday 33 · literary 2 · parliamentary 4 460 · legal and administrative 831 · UN documents 132 040.

## réfugiés

Used about 120 657 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 274 · legal and administrative ≈ 814 · UN documents ≈ 115 535).

- 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)

- Syrian **refugees** in the region.
  Les **réfugiés** syriens dans la région.
  ([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 3318206)

- 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)

## nations

Used about 2 751 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 751).

- UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE **REFUGEES** IN THE NEAR EAST
  UNITED **NATIONS** RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST
  ([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 14972957)

## on

Used about 2 751 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 751).

- 1951 Convention relating to the Status of **Refugees** and its 1967 Protocol, 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
  1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and 1961 Convention **on** the Reduction of Statelessness.
  ([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 25808925)

## More sentences

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

- One of these **refugees** found herself almost at home.
  Une de ces réfugiées se retrouvait presque chez elle.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10693)

- The RAL are obviously related to the issue of providing aid to **refugees**, of providing humanitarian aid.
  Les R.A.L. sont évidemment liés à la question de l'aide aux populations déracinées, de l'aide humanitaire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 247875)

- In Montenegro, large numbers of Kosovar Roma are falling into the hands of unscrupulous people smuggling **refugees** into Italy.
  Au Monténégro, beaucoup de Roms kosovars tombent aux mains de passeurs sans scrupules et partent pour l'Italie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2037055)

## Grammar

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