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# social — English to French

How English *social* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: social (829 556), socials (15). By style: everyday 126 · literary 20 · parliamentary 46 648 · legal and administrative 22 161 · UN documents 760 616.

## social

Used about 788 017 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 113 · literary ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 41 789 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 699 · UN documents ≈ 724 396). Forms: social, sociale, sociales, sociaux.

- It's a **social** problem.
  C'est un problème **social**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#3214498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214498) [\#3214961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214961))

- The only **social** peril is darkness.
  L'unique péril **social**, c'est l'Ombre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15651)

- Recession results in dissatisfaction and **social** unrest.
  La récession provoque mécontentement et troubles **sociaux**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1291900)

- Training and **social** welfare
  Formation et action **sociale**
  ([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 3105813)

- Economic and **Social** Council
  Conseil économique et **social**
  ([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 28032729)

## économique

Used about 12 073 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 12 073).

- Natural and environmental hazards constitute a major threat to both developing and industrialized countries; natural and environmental disasters kill and maim people and can heavily disrupt the long-term economic and **socials** stability of societies.
  Les catastrophes naturelles et écologiques, qui menacent également les pays industrialisés et les pays en développement, estropient et tuent des gens et peuvent terriblement perturber pour longtemps la stabilité socio-**économique** des sociétés affectées.
  ([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 2349177)

## européen

Used about 972 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 972).

- It will step up those measures which contribute to building the European **social** model on the basis of solidarity and a more qualitative concept of growth.
  La Commission renforcera ses actions, qui contribuent à forger le modèle **européen** de société autour de la solidarité et d'une conception plus qualitative de la croissance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1639529)

## More sentences

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

- Is it a **social** problem?
  Est-ce un problème de société ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#3214500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214500) [\#3214962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214962))

- Dolphins are **social** animals.
  Les dauphins sont des animaux sociables.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6603860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6603860) [\#6603971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6603971))

- He is a man of high **social** status.
  C'est un homme de haut rang.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#300087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300087) [\#132706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132706))

## 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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