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# species — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: species (42 677). By style: everyday 60 · literary 16 · parliamentary 2 006 · legal and administrative 25 949 · UN documents 14 646.

## espèce

Used about 35 556 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 56 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 964 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 624 · UN documents ≈ 11 900). Forms: espèce, espèces.

- This **species** is endangered.
  Cette **espèce** est menacée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and BilalBouy · checked, community translation · [\#8405395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8405395) [\#13879994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13879994))

- This is the worst **species**; hypocrisy enters into it.
  Cette **espèce** est la pire; l'hypocrisie s'y mêle.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8100)

- Cod is an important fish **species** for the EU.
  Le cabillaud est une **espèce** de poisson importante pour l'UE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1148165)

- Of the **species** Gadus ogac
  de l'**espèce** Gadus ogac
  ([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 178997)

- Annual catch by major **species**
  Prises annuelles par grandes **espèces** de poissons
  ([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 7244148)

## More sentences

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

- The crocodile is a protected **species**.
  Le crocodile est un animal protégé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pauldhunt and stefano · checked, community translation · [\#1526521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526521) [\#1526173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526173))

- A dolphin is a mammal **species**.
  Un dauphin est une sorte de mammifère.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jdonnarumma and NomadSoul · checked, community translation · [\#1137728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1137728) [\#964832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/964832))

- Man who preys both on the vegetable and animal **species**, is himself a prey to neither.
  L'Homme qui est le prédateur à la fois des animaux et des plantes, n'est lui-même la proie d'aucun d'eux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#908435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/908435) [\#1336190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336190))

## 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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