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# switzerland — English to French

How English *switzerland* 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: switzerland (73 045), switzerlands (2). By style: everyday 63 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 087 · legal and administrative 7 286 · UN documents 64 610.

## suisse

Used about 61 197 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 019 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 134 · UN documents ≈ 52 980).

- I live in **Switzerland**.
  Je demeure en **Suisse**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and LINGUISTE · checked, community translation · [\#12811314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12811314) [\#6205098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6205098))

- In **Switzerland**, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had sold an old horse in order to obtain bread.
  En **Suisse**, cet apanagiste des plus riches domaines princiers de France avait vendu un vieux cheval pour manger.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18171)

- (NL) Afghanistan is a sort of **Switzerland**.
  (NL) L'Afghanistan est une sorte de **Suisse**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 360757)

- Products originating from **Switzerland**
  Produits originaires de **Suisse**
  ([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 1269416)

- **Switzerland** 2008 CRC/C/OPSC/CHE/1
  **Suisse** CRC/C/OPSC/CHE/1
  ([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 26055756)

## More sentences

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

- Now we are asking **Switzerland** to help.
  À présent, nous demandons la collaboration des Suisses.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1986936)

- Would the Commission oppose or not the sovereign decision of these peoples if they were to vote as the people of **Switzerland** did?
  Oui ou non, la Commission s'opposerait-elle à la décision souveraine de ces peuples s'ils votaient comme les Suisses?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1317417)

- Of course this does not mean that the European Parliament should ignore the position of the Labour Party, which would like Malta to follow in **Switzerland**'s footsteps.
  Cela ne veut évidemment pas dire que le Parlement européen ignore la position du parti travailliste, qui voudrait plutôt adopter le modèle helvétique pour Malte.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 222500)

## 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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