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# sources — English to French

How English *sources* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: sources (107 938). By style: everyday 35 · parliamentary 4 513 · legal and administrative 11 319 · UN documents 92 071.

## sources

Used about 87 014 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · parliamentary ≈ 3 479 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 612 · UN documents ≈ 72 890).

- 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))

- The issue is where is this fat going to come from and are these fat **sources** safe.
  La question est de savoir d'où viendront ces graisses et si leurs **sources** sont sûres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151095)

- **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)

- Mandate, information **sources** and method of work
  Mandat, **sources** d &apos; information et méthodes de travail
  ([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 25573695)

- Are your **sources** reliable?
  Tes **sources** sont-elles fiables ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11684972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11684972) [\#8741450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8741450))

## renouvelables

Used about 188 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 188).

- 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)

## énergie

Used about 94 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 94).

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- We learned about that from reliable **sources**.
  Nous le savons de source sûre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#2953685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2953685) [\#11976298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11976298))

- This will discourage the vast supermarkets switching **sources** so that they can follow lower commodity prices.
  Ceci découragera les hypermarchés de changer les provenances de sorte qu'ils puissent adopter des prix moins élevés pour les denrées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1898174)

- The EU must support a policy that leads to Russia undertaking to deliver energy **sources** under secure conditions to each individual Member State.
  L’UE doit soutenir une politique qui incite la Russie à assurer, dans des conditions bien définies, l’approvisionnement énergétique de chaque État membre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 792992)

## Grammar

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