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# trade — English to French

How English *trade* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: trade (381 910), trades (3 183). By style: everyday 88 · literary 6 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 24 938 · legal and administrative 46 610 · UN documents 313 445.

## commerce

Used about 115 595 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · parliamentary ≈ 7 274 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 595 · UN documents ≈ 94 687). Forms: commerce, commercial.

- The arms **trade** is flourishing.
  Le **commerce** des armes est florissant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#13708676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13708676) [\#13706908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13706908))

- Our people depend very heavily on that **trade**.
  Nos citoyens sont très dépendants de ce **commerce**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 124039)

- B. Wholesale **Trade** Services \[54\]
  B. Services de **commerce** de gros \[54\]
  ([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 267881)

- Timber Section, UNECE **Trade** and Timber Division
  Section du bois, CEE, Division du **commerce**
  ([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 9775286)

- Algeria embraced free **trade**.
  L'Algérie a adopté le **commerce** libre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10096387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10096387) [\#11837174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837174))

## métiers

Used about 63 343 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 039 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 797 · UN documents ≈ 55 506).

- “So this is as much as to say, perverse and thieving knave that you are, that you permit yourself to be lacking in respect towards the Auditor of the Châtelet, to the magistrate committed to the popular police of Paris, charged with searching out crimes, delinquencies, and evil conduct; with controlling all **trades**, and interdicting monopoly; with maintaining the pavements; with debarring the hucksters of chickens, poultry, and water-fowl; of superintending the measuring of fagots and other sorts of wood; of purging the city of mud, and the air of contagious maladies; in a word, with attending continually to public affairs, without wages or hope of salary!
  «C'est donc à dire, maître pervers et rapinier que vous êtes, que vous vous permettez de manquer à l'auditeur du Châtelet, au magistrat commis à la police populaire de Paris, chargé de faire recherche des crimes, délits et mauvais trains, de contrôler tous **métiers** et interdire le monopole, d'entretenir les pavés, d'empêcher les regrattiers de poulailles, volailles et sauvagine, de faire mesurer la bûche et autres sortes de bois, de purger la ville des boues et l'air des maladies contagieuses, de vaquer continuellement au fait du public, en un mot, sans gages ni espérances de salaire!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2930)

- They should be equitable in their effects for the different **trades** and different fleets.
  Elles devraient être équitables dans leurs effets pour les différents **métiers** et les différentes flottes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1706172)

- Protective for all **trades**
  de protection pour tous **métiers**
  ([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 1906247)

- Skilled **trades** and similar occupations
  Corps de **métiers** et assimilés
  ([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 6073676)

- Students are taught subjects and **trades** that are not appropriate to the needs of the market.
  Les professeurs enseignent des matières et des **métiers** qui ne correspondent plus aux besoins du marché.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 670349)

## échanges

Used about 13 044 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 039 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 739 · UN documents ≈ 3 265).

- That will offer us a key potential for unlocking world **trade**.
  Voilà qui devrait contribuer largement à la libéralisation des **échanges**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2033963)

- Intra-Union **trade** certificate
  Certificat pour les **échanges** dans l’Union européenne
  ([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 2241154)

- A coherent approach to addressing global imbalances and restoring balanced **trade** called for policies that tackled and prevented currency speculation at the global level.
  Une approche cohérente pour redresser les déséquilibres mondiaux et rééquilibrer les **échanges** passait par des mesures de lutte contre la spéculation monétaire au niveau mondial.
  ([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 21867135)

- Because Latvia **trades** extensively with Belarus, this was a big hook for the Latvians.
  Comme la Lettonie entretient des **échanges** commerciaux importants avec ce pays, ces sanctions préoccupaient grandement les Lettons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 862571)

- affects **trade** between Member States.
  a une incidence sur les **échanges** entre États membres.
  ([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 1687321)

## More sentences

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

- Do you want to **trade** our two sheep, one for another?
  Voulez-vous que nous échangions nos deux moutons ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#2252386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2252386) [\#6304886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6304886))

- He negotiated a free **trade** agreement with Canada.
  Il a négocié un accord de libre-échange avec le Canada.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#803305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803305) [\#2343715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343715))

- The two nations have strong **trade** ties.
  Les deux nations ont de forts liens commerciaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2163181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163181) [\#2163706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163706))

## 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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