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# this — English to French

How English *this* 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: this (2 746 947). By style: everyday 24 538 · literary 1 479 · biblical 2 459 · parliamentary 498 357 · legal and administrative 510 732 · UN documents 1 709 382.

## présent

Used about 560 903 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 10 382 · legal and administrative ≈ 372 409 · UN documents ≈ 178 061). Forms: présent, présente.

- for Demas left me, having loved **this** present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
  car Démas m’a abandonné, par amour pour le siècle **présent**, et il est parti pour Thessalonique; Crescens est allé en Galatie, Tite en Dalmatie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 4:10)

- It is necessary to remember **this**.
  Il est important de garder cela bien **présent** à l'esprit.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 372864)

- HAS ADOPTED **THIS** DECISION:
  A ADOPTÉ LA **PRÉSENTE** DÉCISION:
  ([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 3170896)

- II. The objectives of **this** general comment
  II. Objectifs de la **présente** Observation générale
  ([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 12361206)

- Addenda to **this** report published separately:
  Additifs au **présent** rapport publiés séparément:
  ([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 11185394)

## cette

Used about 553 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 556 · literary ≈ 277 · biblical ≈ 512 · parliamentary ≈ 166 119 · legal and administrative ≈ 63 842 · UN documents ≈ 320 509).

- He lives on **this** street.
  Il vit dans **cette** rue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#289949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/289949) [\#1330065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1330065))

- The owl often assumes **this** oblique attitude.
  Le hibou a souvent **cette** attitude oblique.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8925)

- Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all **this** vision.
  Nathan rapporta à David toutes ces paroles et toute **cette** vision.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 7:17)

- **This** issue must be put on the agenda again.
  **Cette** question doit de nouveau être mise à l'ordre du jour.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1554330)

- On **this** issue, TVO put forward another type of argument.
  En lien avec **cette** question, TVO a fait valoir un autre type d'argument.
  ([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 4178014)

## More sentences

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

- I wonder if you could tell me if there is a post office in **this** area.
  Je me demande si vous pourriez me dire s'il y a une poste dans ce quartier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#59627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59627) [\#11329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11329))

- I need a pair of scissors to cut **this** paper.
  J'ai besoin d'une paire de ciseaux pour couper ce papier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#59052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59052) [\#335288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335288))

- **This** is a children's song.
  C'est une chanson pour enfants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Aghanim · checked, community translation · [\#11232946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11232946) [\#11232951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11232951))

## Grammar

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