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# they — English to French

How English *they* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: they (809 169), theys (13). By style: everyday 13 035 · literary 589 · biblical 4 963 · parliamentary 95 585 · legal and administrative 84 808 · UN documents 610 202.

## ils

Used about 348 864 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 418 · literary ≈ 405 · biblical ≈ 3 515 · parliamentary ≈ 40 712 · legal and administrative ≈ 40 637 · UN documents ≈ 255 175).

- **They** are both good.
  **Ils** sont tous deux bons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#325744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325744) [\#1410445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1410445))

- **They** ascended to the first floor.
  **Ils** montèrent au premier.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23610)

- but **they** shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
  Et **ils** crièrent: Crucifie, crucifie-le!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:21)

- **They** explicitly support it.
  **Ils** le soutiennent explicitement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 698666)

- **They** shall inform the Commission of any such measures.
  **Ils** informent la Commission de toute mesure dans ce sens.
  ([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 1461633)

## elles

Used about 123 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 358 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 17 701 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 902 · UN documents ≈ 88 757).

- **They** are very big.
  **Elles** sont très grandes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#37779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37779) [\#3652129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3652129))

- But **they** travelled at a very rapid rate.
  **Elles** allaient, du reste, fort vite.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5368)

- He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. **They** ran as a river in the dry places.
  Il ouvrit le rocher, et des eaux coulèrent; **Elles** se répandirent comme un fleuve dans les lieux arides.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 105:41)

- We hope that **they** will be incorporated by the Commission.
  Nous espérons qu'**elles** seront reprises par la Commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1090223)

- **They** must be reasonably firm and characteristic of the variety.
  **Elles** doivent être suffisamment fermes et présenter les caractéristiques de la variété.
  ([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 4923770)

## ont

Used about 66 153 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 629 · biblical ≈ 207 · parliamentary ≈ 5 310 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 534 · UN documents ≈ 55 473).

- Have **they** spotted you?
  T'**ont**-elles repérée ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3731924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3731924) [\#3848657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3848657))

- Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, **they** became for him altars for sinning.
  Éphraïm a multiplié les autels pour pécher, Et ces autels l’**ont** fait tomber dans le péché.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 8:11)

- In the event of flight cancellations, passengers have the right to know when **they** are entitled to compensation and when **they** are not.
  Les passagers **ont** le droit de savoir dans quels cas l'annulation d'un vol donne droit ou non à une indemnisation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 480456)

- the customs authorities have informed the declarant that **they** intend to examine the goods;
  soit **ont** informé le déclarant de leur intention de procéder à un examen des marchandises;
  ([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 1541769)

- Those cynical attacks have nothing to do with this debate and **they** undermine its professional nature.
  Ces attaques cyniques n &apos; **ont** rien à voir avec le présent débat et nuisent à son caractère professionnel.
  ([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 23779411)

## sont

Used about 52 742 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 086 · biblical ≈ 207 · parliamentary ≈ 1 770 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 301 · UN documents ≈ 44 378).

- **They**'re the ones who want to go.
  Ce **sont** ceux qui veulent y aller.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#8873787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8873787) [\#2163652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163652))

- **They** are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
  Ce **sont** aussi sept rois: cinq sont tombés, un existe, l’autre n’est pas encore venu, et quand il sera venu, il doit rester peu de temps.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 17:10)

- **They** are dealt with extremely well in the rapporteur's proposal, but also in an amendment by Mrs Breyer, which I recognise from the work on the Cosmetics Directive.
  Ces questions **sont** fort bien développées dans la proposition de la rapporteure et dans un amendement soumis par Mme Breyer, que je reconnais pour son travail sur la directive "cosmétiques".
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1237214)

- As a rule, refund applications must be processed within the three months following the date on which **they** were lodged together with the necessary supporting documents.
  Les demandes **sont** traitées, en principe, dans un délai de trois mois à compter du dépôt de la demande de remboursement accompagnée des justificatifs nécessaires.
  ([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 330068)

- **They** are the ones who take the decisions, and we just have to carry them out.
  Ce **sont** eux qui décident et nous nous contentons d &apos; exécuter leurs ordres.
  ([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 4235791)

## leurs

Used about 16 398 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 770 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 534 · UN documents ≈ 11 095).

- Many firms which do this well take great care over how **they** treat their workers.
  Très souvent, les entreprises qui obtiennent de bons résultats sont celles qui veillent avec la plus grande attention à la qualité de **leurs** relations avec leurs travailleurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1980145)

- Proposals set out details of planned work, who will carry them out, and how much **they** will cost.
  Les propositions présentent en détail les travaux prévus, les responsables de leur réalisation, et **leurs** coûts.
  ([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 2236669)

- (b) **They** must not compromise the fair exercise of their public duties;
  Ne doivent pas compromettre le bon exercice de **leurs** fonctions publiques;
  ([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 9038736)

- identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which **they** are present, as being complementary one to another.
  reconnaissables, de par leur nature ou **leurs** quantités respectives, comme complémentaires les uns des autres.
  ([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 4388999)

## More sentences

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

- If someone dies, **they** should be buried.
  Si quelqu'un meurt, il devrait être enterré.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12319610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12319610) [\#12319626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12319626))

- **They** showed us all their family photos.
  On nous a montré toutes les photos de famille.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#10718923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10718923) [\#11380932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11380932))

- For the stuff **they** had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
  Les objets préparés suffisaient, et au-delà, pour tous les ouvrages à faire.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 36:7)

## 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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