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# service — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: service (348 625), services (600 568). By style: everyday 150 · literary 26 · biblical 133 · parliamentary 31 603 · legal and administrative 117 650 · UN documents 799 631.

## services

Used about 821 161 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 130 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 54 · parliamentary ≈ 26 665 · legal and administrative ≈ 102 944 · UN documents ≈ 691 348). Forms: service, services.

- I'm at your **service**.
  Je suis à ton **service**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2267196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267196) [\#5565850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5565850))

- He offered his **services**.
  Il offrit ses **services**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2151)

- When the days of his **service** were fulfilled, he departed to his house.
  Lorsque ses jours de **service** furent écoulés, il s’en alla chez lui.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 1:23)

- **Services** account for 70% of our economy.
  La part des **services** dans notre économie représente 70%.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 657860)

- Balance on goods and **services**
  Solde des biens et **services**
  ([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 2323529)

## public

Used about 658 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 658).

- Look at the United Kingdom's National Health **Service**.
  Voyez le cas de la **Public** Health au Royaume-Uni.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1625930)

- Indeed, how can one possibly set up a European public prosecution **service** when there is not even a European civil code or, what is more, a European criminal code?
  En effet, comment mettre sur pied un ministère **public** européen en l'absence même d'un code civil communautaire et, qui plus est, d'un code pénal européen ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 114091)

## More sentences

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

- What does it take to get some **service** here?
  Que faut-il faire pour être un tant soit peu servi ici ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#954528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954528) [\#958348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/958348))

- The bus **service** won't be available until the snow has melted.
  Les bus ne circuleront pas tant que la neige n'aura pas fondu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CarpeLanam and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#35359](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35359) [\#2809674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2809674))

- May I be of further **service**?
  Puis-je être utile à autre chose ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2396287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396287) [\#2396864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396864))

## 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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