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# things — English to French

How English *things* 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: things (36 931). By style: everyday 1 737 · literary 81 · biblical 953 · parliamentary 16 003 · legal and administrative 720 · UN documents 17 437.

## choses

Used about 12 059 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 411 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 437 · parliamentary ≈ 5 001 · legal and administrative ≈ 75 · UN documents ≈ 5 086).

- **Things** will get nasty.
  Les **choses** vont se gâter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4498871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4498871) [\#11228286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11228286))

- **Things** of this nature were said:—
  Il se disait des **choses** comme ceci:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23270)

- The LORD has done great **things** for us, and we are glad.
  L’Éternel a fait pour nous de grandes **choses**; Nous sommes dans la joie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 126:3)

- And **things** are moving.
  Et d'ailleurs les **choses** bougent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1120459)

- I use the language in relation to familiar **things** and situations.
  Je peux m'exprimer sur des **choses** et des situations familières.
  ([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 2148166)

## More sentences

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

- If you go to that supermarket, you can buy most **things** you use in your daily life.
  Si vous allez dans ce supermarché, vous pourrez acheter la plupart des objets que vous utilisez dans votre vie quotidienne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#68682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/68682) [\#1893540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1893540))

- Ants can lift **things** that are more than 50 times their own weight.
  Les fourmis peuvent soulever des objets qui pèsent plus de cinquante fois leur propre poids.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tabidots and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#3472489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3472489) [\#3472555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3472555))

- I know I've said some pretty stupid **things** today.
  Je sais que j'ai dit des trucs assez idiots, aujourd'hui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3729586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3729586) [\#4185073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4185073))

## 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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