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# unemployment — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: unemployment (40 763). By style: everyday 22 · parliamentary 6 764 · legal and administrative 1 325 · UN documents 32 652.

## chômage

Used about 38 385 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 6 482 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 270 · UN documents ≈ 30 611).

- **Unemployment** is high.
  Le **chômage** est élevé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1522253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522253) [\#1522367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522367))

- Relocations, **unemployment**, social decline.
  .- Délocalisations, **chômage**, régression sociale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 654425)

- **Unemployment** benefits or early retirement benefit
  prestations de **chômage** ou de préretraite
  ([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 821391)

- The **unemployment** rate is 2.8 per cent.
  Le taux de **chômage** est de 2,8 %.
  ([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 9405543)

- **Unemployment** is very low.
  Le **chômage** est très faible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by The\_World\_Factbook and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#8904481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8904481) [\#8905024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8905024))

## emploi

Used about 680 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 680).

- 26. The Ombudsman indicated that Namibia was experiencing a huge **unemployment** problem.
  26. Le Médiateur signale que la Namibie connaît un énorme problème en matière d &apos; **emploi**.
  ([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 22207830)

## jeunes

Used about 28 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 28).

- In June 2015 youth **unemployment** stood at 4,7 million, with significant differences persisting among Member States.
  En juin 2015, le nombre des **jeunes** chômeurs s’élevait à 4,7 millions et de fortes différences persistaient entre les 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 3777854)

## More sentences

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

- So I wonder what can be done with those Member States which currently have 12, 13 or 14 % **unemployment**?
  Je me demande alors que faire face aux pays comptant 12, 13 ou 14 % de chômeurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1930197)

- Mr President, the latest statistics show a fall in **unemployment**.
  Monsieur le Président, les dernières statistiques parlent d'une réduction du nombre de chômeurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1913211)

- However, if, during that period, the former member of the contract staff ceases to fulfil the conditions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2, payment of the **unemployment** allowance shall be suspended.
  Si toutefois, au cours de cette période, l'ancien agent contractuel cesse de remplir les conditions prévues aux paragraphes 1 et 2, le versement de l'allocation est interrompu.
  ([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 403655)

## 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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