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# street — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: street (25 611), streets (6 860). By style: everyday 643 · literary 170 · biblical 84 · parliamentary 1 444 · legal and administrative 1 828 · UN documents 28 302.

## rue

Used about 23 958 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 549 · literary ≈ 156 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 993 · legal and administrative ≈ 971 · UN documents ≈ 21 227). Forms: rue, rues.

- I'm on the **streets**.
  Je suis à la **rue**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by catimini and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#10559866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10559866) [\#9576986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9576986))

- They entered the **street**.
  Ils s'engagèrent dans la **rue**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28349)

- Wisdom calls aloud in the **street**. She utters her voice in the public squares.
  La sagesse crie dans les **rues**, Elle élève sa voix dans les places:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 1:20)

- The army has appeared in the **streets**.
  L'armée est présente dans la **rue**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1117684)

- Surface work for **streets**
  Travaux de revêtement de **rues**
  ([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 1494794)

## street

Used about 3 249 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 75 · legal and administrative ≈ 514 · UN documents ≈ 2 653).

- I'm pretty sure Tom lives on Park **Street**.
  Je suis presque sûre que Tom habite à Park **Street**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and narnar · checked, community translation · [\#5643855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5643855) [\#5644085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5644085))

- Wall **Street** and City survivors are speculating on the currency markets and short selling CDSs that they do not even have.
  Des survivants de Wall **Street** et de la City spéculent sur les marchés monétaires et vendent à la baisse des CDS qu'ils ne détiennent même pas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1433435)

- Corner Of 50th **Street** Yangon
  Corner of 50th **Street**, Yangon
  ([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 1426120)

- 1818 H **Street** N.W.
  1818 H **Street** N.W.
  ([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 16148862)

- A few weeks ago, Wall **Street** started to fall, not because unemployment in the United States increased but because it fell.
  Il y a quelques semaines, Wall **Street** a commencé à baisser, non pas parce que le chômage aux États-Unis s'était accru, mais parce qu'il avait diminué.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1595763)

## enfants

Used about 590 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 590).

- 8. In 2005, the Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development had launched an investigation into children working as **street** vendors.
  8. En 2005, le Ministère des femmes et du développement communautaire et social a lancé une enquête sur les **enfants** travaillant comme vendeurs ambulants.
  ([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 15274589)

- Take all appropriate measures to eliminate these forms (child labour, child soldiers, and **street** begging) of exploitation of children (Slovenia);
  98.92 Prendre toutes les mesures appropriées pour éliminer ces formes d &apos; exploitation des **enfants** (travail des enfants, enfants soldats et mendicité) (Slovénie);
  ([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 24017448)

## More sentences

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

- He didn't see the stop sign and almost hit the child crossing the **street**.
  Il n'a pas vu le panneau stop et a presque percuté l'enfant traversant la route.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · [\#301696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/301696) [\#5802885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5802885))

- The **street** is icy.
  Il y a du verglas sur la route.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and DancingHorses · checked, community translation · [\#8838545](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8838545) [\#677044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/677044))

- Tom is both book smart and **street** smart.
  Tom est un homme intelligent, dont les connaissances ont été acquises à la fois grâce à des études universitaires et par sa propre expérience.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12377695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12377695) [\#12377943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12377943))

## 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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