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# soldiers — English to French

How English *soldiers* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: soldiers (27 170). By style: everyday 154 · literary 25 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 1 102 · legal and administrative 240 · UN documents 25 621.

## soldats

Used about 19 577 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 154 · literary ≈ 23 · biblical ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 1 033 · legal and administrative ≈ 195 · UN documents ≈ 18 148).

- My sons are **soldiers**.
  Mes fils sont **soldats**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3727472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3727472) [\#5293263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5293263))

- Then, addressing the **soldiers**:—
  Puis s'adressant aux **soldats**:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4346)

- Then the **soldiers** cut away the ropes of the boat and let it fall off.
  Alors les **soldats** coupèrent les cordes de la chaloupe, et la laissèrent tomber.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:32)

- There are 50 000 **soldiers** there.
  Il y a tout de même 50 000 **soldats** sur place.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1893233)

- Kitchen and canteen building for **soldiers** personnel
  Cuisine et cantine des **soldats**
  ([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 5649985)

## More sentences

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

- Herod with his **soldiers** humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
  Hérode, avec ses gardes, le traita avec mépris; et, après s’être moqué de lui et l’avoir revêtu d’un habit éclatant, il le renvoya à Pilate.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:11)

- Judas then, having taken a detachment of **soldiers** and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
  Judas donc, ayant pris la cohorte, et des huissiers qu’envoyèrent les principaux sacrificateurs et les pharisiens, vint là avec des lanternes, des flambeaux et des armes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 18:3)

- For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of **soldiers** and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
  J’aurais eu honte de demander au roi une escorte et des cavaliers pour nous protéger contre l’ennemi pendant la route, car nous avions dit au roi: La main de notre Dieu est pour leur bien sur tous ceux qui le cherchent, mais sa force et sa colère sont sur tous ceux qui l’abandonnent.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 8:22)

## Grammar

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