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# source — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: source (95 394), sources (107 938). By style: everyday 134 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 7 813 · legal and administrative 22 903 · UN documents 172 476.

## source

Used about 172 824 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 126 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 697 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 472 · UN documents ≈ 145 527). Forms: source, sources.

- My **sources** are secret.
  Mes **sources** sont secrètes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#10098063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10098063) [\#11486396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11486396))

- To erect a sense which we lack into a **source** of truth, is a fine blind man’s self-sufficiency.
  Ériger un sens qui nous manque en **source** de vérité, c'est un bel aplomb d'aveugle.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11058)

- You claim that there is only one **source**.
  Vous dites qu'il n'y a qu'une seule **source**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 335470)

- **Sources**: Refinitiv EIKON, ESMA.
  **Sources**: Refinitiv EIKON, ESMA
  ([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 5332464)

- **Source**: Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau.
  **Source**: Bureau lituanien de la police criminelle.
  ([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 29478974)

## énergie

Used about 244 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 244).

- They are a **source** of inexhaustible renewable energy.
  Elles sont une **énergie** renouvelable inépuisable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1563032)

- I also share the concern of my colleague on the subject of the efforts we need to make in the field of solar energy and agricultural-based alternative energy **sources**.
  Je partage également le souci de ma collègue au sujet des efforts à réaliser dans le domaine de l'**énergie** solaire et des énergies alternatives à caractère agricole.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1863073)

- Even worse, under pressure from powerful nuclear lobbies, nuclear energy has nearly succeeded in being recognised as a renewable **source** of energy. This would be a disaster in itself.
  Pire, suite aux pressions des puissants lobbies nucléaires, l'**énergie** nucléaire a failli être reconnue comme une énergie renouvelable, ce qui aurait quand même été un comble.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2046451)

## renouvelables

Used about 163 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 163).

- Increasing the productivity of renewables is the only long-term alternative to traditional energy **sources**.
  Accroître la productivité des énergies **renouvelables** est la seule alternative à long terme aux carburants traditionnels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 375410)

- Aid for renewable energy **sources** is justifiable also because conventional energy **sources** do not pay in any significant way for some of the external costs generated by their use.
  L'aide aux énergies **renouvelables** se justifie de plus par le fait que les énergies conventionnelles ne paient pas dans une forte proportion certains coûts externes que leur utilisation implique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 120883)

## More sentences

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

- You can use a decompiler to recover the assembler **source** code of a compiled file.
  On peut utiliser un décompilateur pour récupérer le code en assembleur d'un fichier compilé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by see and Selenyt · checked, community translation · [\#11294633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11294633) [\#10277309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10277309))

- Thomas uses open-**source** software.
  Thomas utilise des logiciels libres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by see and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#11294663](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11294663) [\#5546948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5546948))

- Water is the **source** of life.
  L'eau est à l'origine de la vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#12455506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12455506) [\#12455225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12455225))

## 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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