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# these — English to French

How English *these* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: these (823 655), theses (421). By style: everyday 2 075 · literary 341 · biblical 1 165 · parliamentary 107 829 · legal and administrative 76 295 · UN documents 636 371.

## ces

Used about 430 387 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 427 · literary ≈ 270 · biblical ≈ 413 · parliamentary ≈ 62 083 · legal and administrative ≈ 61 267 · UN documents ≈ 304 928).

- **These** plums are ripe.
  **Ces** prunes sont mûres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · [\#60568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60568) [\#350215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/350215))

- **These** friends are our angels.
  **Ces** diablesses sont nos anges.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29872)

- David laid up **these** words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
  David prit à cœur **ces** paroles, et il eut une grande crainte d’Akisch, roi de Gath.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 21:12)

- Half of **these** costs are associated with translation.
  La moitié de **ces** coûts sont associés à la traduction.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489191)

- It is therefore appropriate to lower **theses** MRLs.
  Il convient donc d'abaisser **ces** LMR.
  ([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 4351642)

## thèses

Used about 122 306 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 22 873 · UN documents ≈ 99 433).

- Putting forward **theses** such as yours is a sure-fire way of scuppering the whole idea of a criminal court.
  Soutenir des **thèses** comparables aux vôtres est la méthode la plus sûre pour faire échouer l'idée d'une Cour pénale internationale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 382771)

- - Director of several **theses**
  - Directeur de plusieurs **thèses**
  ([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 30239696)

- Scientists constantly keep revising their **theses**, which means that we too must be open to new ideas.
  Les scientifiques réévaluent leurs **thèses** en permanence, ce qui signifie que nous devons nous aussi nous montrer ouverts aux idées nouvelles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1084030)

- Supervision of Masters and Doctorate **Theses**.
  Direction de mémoires de maîtrise et de **thèses** de doctorat;
  ([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 9134501)

- This will make a great diversity of research subjects and **theses** possible, and will provide much more varied mobility opportunities.
  Ceci permettra une grande diversité de sujets de recherche, de **thèses**, et des possibilités de mobilité beaucoup plus variées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147499)

## More sentences

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

- I just don't want any of **these**.
  Je ne veux seulement aucun de ceux-ci.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2014289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2014289) [\#11091568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11091568))

- Sami will take care of **these**.
  Sami va s'en occuper.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#6375778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6375778) [\#6375802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6375802))

- **These** are my students.
  Ce sont mes élèves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2547056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547056) [\#7060898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7060898))

## 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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