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# society — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: societies (30 775), society (269 388). By style: everyday 136 · literary 32 · parliamentary 17 765 · legal and administrative 6 841 · UN documents 275 389.

## société

Used about 245 819 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 127 · literary ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 16 285 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 630 · UN documents ≈ 223 754). Forms: société, sociétés.

- We live in **society**.
  Nous vivons en **société**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#12728150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12728150) [\#8364225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8364225))

- Light up **society** from below.
  Éclairez la **société** en dessous.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15772)

- That leads a **society** to despair.
  Cela traduit le désespoir d'une **société**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1828920)

- INFORMATION **SOCIETY** AND MEDIA
  **SOCIÉTÉ** DE L'INFORMATION ET MÉDIAS
  ([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 2476585)

- NRE: NGOs, civil **society**
  RN : ONG, **société** civile.
  ([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 13617338)

## More sentences

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

- She had never mingled in the **society** of women.
  Elle n'a jamais fréquenté la communauté féminine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#312590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312590) [\#138959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/138959))

- The **society** was founded in 1990.
  L'association fut établie en 1990.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#19247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19247) [\#1900895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1900895))

- So many members of our civilized **society** would do well to live some time with a primitive people.
  Tellement de membres de notre civilisation feraient bien de vivre quelque temps avec un peuple primitif.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Sorgan · checked, community translation · [\#6202732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6202732) [\#6203529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6203529))

## 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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