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# room — English to French

How English *room* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: room (210 637), rooms (11 197). By style: everyday 2 163 · literary 158 · biblical 128 · parliamentary 2 485 · legal and administrative 2 644 · UN documents 214 256.

## salles

Used about 144 024 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 135 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 518 · legal and administrative ≈ 496 · UN documents ≈ 142 837). Forms: salle, salles.

- Both of the **rooms** are open.
  Les deux **salles** sont ouvertes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3821759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3821759) [\#6637395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6637395))

- The **room** had been emptied.
  La **salle** s'était vidée.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14644)

- Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the guest **room**, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.
  Samuel prit Saül et son serviteur, les fit entrer dans la **salle**, et leur donna une place à la tête des conviés, qui étaient environ trente hommes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 9:22)

- But the Brussels waiting **rooms** are large, and waiting times uncertain.
  Mais les **salles** d'attente de Bruxelles sont grandes et les délais, incertains.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1922832)

- Wooden furniture of a kind used in the dining **room** and the living **room**
  Meubles en bois des types utilisés dans les **salles** à manger et de séjour
  ([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 2696937)

## chambre

Used about 6 417 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 172 · literary ≈ 65 · biblical ≈ 93 · parliamentary ≈ 155 · legal and administrative ≈ 468 · UN documents ≈ 4 464). Forms: chambre, chambres.

- I need a **room**.
  Il me faut une **chambre**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2387466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2387466) [\#7072013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7072013))

- But my **room** is the one you ought to see.
  Mais c'est ma **chambre** qu'il faut voir.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 619)

- Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the **rooms** of their kings.
  Le pays fourmilla de grenouilles, Jusque dans les **chambres** de leurs rois.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 105:30)

- I know that there are not many here, but others are following in their **rooms** on their monitors.
  Je sais que nous ne sommes plus très nombreux ici, mais les autres suivent ce débat de leur **chambre** sur leurs moniteurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1621471)

- None for hotels in excess of 100 **rooms**.
  Néant pour les hôtels de plus de 100 **chambres**.
  ([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 2025528)

## More sentences

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

- What are the dimensions of the **room**?
  Quelles sont les dimensions de cette pièce ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#44225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44225) [\#373440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/373440))

- You must make **room** for the television.
  Il faut que tu fasses de la place pour le téléviseur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by handsomelyian and gall · checked, community translation · [\#39184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39184) [\#435860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/435860))

- Tom is in the living **room**, too.
  Tom est dans le séjour, lui aussi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#7543836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7543836) [\#12024393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12024393))

## 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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