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# troops — English to French

How English *troops* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: troops (27 943). By style: everyday 43 · literary 7 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 467 · legal and administrative 456 · UN documents 25 965.

## troupes

Used about 7 887 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 41 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 009 · legal and administrative ≈ 342 · UN documents ≈ 6 491).

- The **troops** were annihilated.
  Les **troupes** furent anéanties.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#485021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/485021) [\#477612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/477612))

- The **troops** who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of combat.
  Les **troupes** qui y avaient bivouaqué en étaient sorties pour les besoins du combat.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26395)

- His **troops** come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
  Ses **troupes** se sont de concert mises en marche, Elles se sont frayées leur chemin jusqu’à moi, Elles ont campé autour de ma tente.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 19:12)

- Israeli **troops** should return to their barracks.
  Les **troupes** israéliennes devraient rallier leur base.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1199116)

- Gave orders to **troops** to shoot protestors in Douma.
  A ordonné aux **troupes** de tirer sur les manifestants à Douma.
  ([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 2786851)

## soldats

Used about 6 130 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 122 · legal and administrative ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 5 950).

- He is sending hundreds of thousands of **troops** into Baidoa.
  Il envoie des centaines de milliers de **soldats** à Baidoa.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 841289)

- He was a commander of approximately 3,000 Taliban front-line **troops** in the Takhar Province in October 2001.
  En octobre 2001, il commandait environ 3000 **soldats** talibans qui combattaient en première ligne dans la province de Takhar.
  ([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 3112789)

- In Hebron, clashes occurred between Palestinians and IDF **troops**.
  À Hébron, des heurts ont opposé des Palestiniens et des **soldats** des FDI.
  ([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 2512066)

- An estimated 45 000 **troops** have been sent into the province against 5000 rebels.
  Environ 45 000 **soldats** ont été envoyés dans la province contre 5 000 rebelles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 528912)

- Ponomarev called on Vladimir Putin to send in Russian **troops** to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons.
  A invité Vladimir Poutine à envoyer des **soldats** russes pour protéger sa ville et lui a ensuite demandé de livrer des armes.
  ([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 3130020)

## More sentences

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

- He called on state **troops** to end the strike.
  Il en appela à la troupe pour mettre fin à la grève.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#803239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803239) [\#2343447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343447))

- Hezbollah started attacking Israeli **troops**.
  Le Hezbollah a commencé à attaquer les forces israéliens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10805039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10805039) [\#12101556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12101556))

- Behold, your **troops** among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
  Voici, ton peuple, ce sont des femmes au milieu de toi; Les portes de ton pays s’ouvrent à tes ennemis; Le feu consume tes verrous.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NAH 3:13)

## 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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