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# under — English to French

How English *under* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: under (1 227 187), unders (3). By style: everyday 794 · literary 188 · biblical 320 · parliamentary 33 963 · legal and administrative 177 898 · UN documents 1 014 027.

## sous

Used about 187 865 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 546 · literary ≈ 145 · biblical ≈ 213 · parliamentary ≈ 5 661 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 237 · UN documents ≈ 159 063).

- It is **under** the chair.
  Elle est **sous** la chaise.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#28185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28185) [\#3001066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3001066))

- “The vault **under** the altar?”
  --Le caveau **sous** l'autel!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11565)

- one sea, and the twelve oxen **under** it.
  la mer, et les douze bœufs **sous** elle;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 4:15)

- Some steps were taken **under** pressure from the European Parliament.
  Des mesures ont été prises **sous** la pression du Parlement européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 552986)

- (notified **under** document number C(2007) 3257)
  \[notifiée **sous** le numéro C(2007) 3257\]
  ([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 1347827)

## More sentences

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

- Tom is paying me **under** the table.
  Tom me rémunère au black.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#9399354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9399354) [\#14045114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14045114))

- We're going to have problems if we continue **under** these conditions.
  Nous allons rencontrer des difficultés si nous continuons dans ces conditions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13842811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13842811) [\#451580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/451580))

- It's water **under** the bridge.
  C'est de l'histoire ancienne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#7126735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7126735) [\#3349366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3349366))

## 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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