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# units — English to French

How English *units* 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: units (86 276). By style: everyday 8 · parliamentary 843 · legal and administrative 15 913 · UN documents 69 512.

## unités

Used about 53 436 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 492 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 940 · UN documents ≈ 41 997).

- The box contains 20 **units**.
  La boîte contient 20 **unités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and THURET · checked, community translation · [\#1334905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1334905) [\#3660041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3660041))

- Cows, sheep and pigs are more than production **units**.
  Les vaches, les moutons et les porcs sont plus que des **unités** de production.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 178904)

- **Units** of data values
  **Unités** de valeur des données
  ([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 1819912)

- Number of **units**: X 50
  Nombre d &apos; **unités** X 50
  ([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 530824)

- The gram and the kilo are **units** of weight.
  Le gramme et le kilo sont des **unités** de poids.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11541504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541504) [\#11541506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541506))

## police

Used about 1 501 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 53 · UN documents ≈ 1 448).

- As you know, it was due to my report three years ago that this House has proposed the creation of these **units**.
  Vous savez que, sur la base d'un rapport que j'avais rédigé il y a trois ans, cette Assemblée a en effet proposé de mettre en place cette **police**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 179524)

- Special **units** were established within the police consisting of one representative of the key government actors at the State and entity levels.
  Special units were established within the **police** consisting of one representative of the key government actors at the State and entity levels.
  ([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 13879425)

- What about Internet groups, Internet police **units** and user groups which are formed with a view to uncovering harmful content on the Net?
  Où en sommes nous des groupes Internet, de la **police** Internet, des groupes d'utilisateurs qui se réunissent ici et essayent d'enrayer le contenu néfaste de la toile ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 135235)

- I have just one further question: when do you think the feasibility study on the creation of EU protective **units** will be submitted?
  J'ai simplement une question complémentaire : selon vous, quel est le délai nécessaire pour que l'étude de faisabilité sur une **police** européenne des frontières puisse être présentée ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 179523)

## More sentences

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

- For the sharks, we saw them, not by **units**, nor by tens, nor by hundreds; but by thousands and by myriads. Trust me, there are more sharks in the sea than mortals on land.
  Car les requins, nous les vîmes non pas à l'unité, ni par dizaines, ni par centaines, mais par milliers et myriades. Croyez-moi, il y a davantage de requins dans la mer que de mortels sur terre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1805553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1805553) [\#1805604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1805604))

- If any problems arise there, these **units**, these monitors, must receive adequate military and police protection.
  Si des problèmes surgissent une fois là-bas, il faut aussi assurer une protection militaire et policière appropriée pour cette organisation et ces observateurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1904524)

- The social security systems of Member States certainly recognise different sorts of stable relationships – stable **units**.
  Les systèmes de sécurité sociale des États membres reconnaissent assurément différents types de relations stables, de cellules familiales stables.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 567052)

## Grammar

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