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# vehicles — English to French

How English *vehicles* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: vehicles (123 182). By style: everyday 10 · literary 8 · parliamentary 3 286 · legal and administrative 29 475 · UN documents 90 403.

## véhicules

Used about 107 204 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 948 · UN documents ≈ 80 986).

- Cats are often run over by moving **vehicles**.
  Les chats sont souvent écrasés par des **véhicules**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#282058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282058) [\#2991171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2991171))

- Besides the maskers, they stared at that procession—peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,—of **vehicles** of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were.
  Outre les masques, on regardait ce défilé, propre au mardi gras comme à Longchamps, de **véhicules** de toutes sortes, citadines, tapissières, carrioles, cabriolets, marchant en ordre, rigoureusement rivés les uns aux autres par les règlements de police et comme emboîtés dans des rails.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29549)

- Air pollution by motor **vehicles**
  La pollution de l'air par les émissions de **véhicules**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1837138)

- **Vehicles** with compression ignition engines
  **Véhicules** équipés de moteurs à allumage par compression
  ([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 5545082)

- **Vehicles** of categories O3 and O4
  4.2.1.2 **Véhicules** des catégories O3 et O4
  ([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 20979766)

## voitures

Used about 3 323 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 205 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 228 · UN documents ≈ 1 883).

- This file of **vehicles**, whatever its nature was, was mournful.
  Cette file de **voitures**, quelle qu'elle fût, était lugubre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19689)

- These days, the complete dismantling of end-of-life **vehicles** is economically viable.
  Actuellement, un démantèlement total des carcasses de **voitures** est économiquement possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 7127)

- Electric burglar or fire alarms and similar apparatus for motor **vehicles**
  Avertisseurs électriques protection contre vol, incendie, pour **voitures**
  ([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 2424240)

- The large majority of current passenger cars of the sedan type, as well as monospace (mini-van) type **vehicles**, have a lower bumper height around 200 to 250 mm above the ground.
  Sur la grande majorité des **voitures** particulières du type berline actuellement en circulation mais aussi des monospaces, cette hauteur n &apos; est que de 200 ou 250 mm.
  ([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 20872755)

- At the entrance to the Rue de l’Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way being too narrow to admit of the entrance of **vehicles**.
  À l'entrée de la rue de l'Homme-Armé, le fiacre s'arrêta, cette rue étant trop étroite pour que les **voitures** puissent y pénétrer.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28337)

## automobiles

Used about 683 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 68 · legal and administrative ≈ 614).

- It takes into account the specific nature of motor **vehicles** as a product.
  Celui-ci tient compte du fait que les **automobiles** sont des produits particuliers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 329485)

- GAS CYLINDERS HIGH PRESSURE CYLINDER FOR THE ON-BOARD STORAGE OF NATURAL GAS AS A FUEL FOR AUTOMOTIVE **VEHICLES**
  BOUTEILLES A GAZ — BOUTEILLES A HAUTE PRESSION POUR LE STOCKAGE A BORD DE GAZ NATUREL UTILISE COMME CARBURANT POUR LES VEHICULES **AUTOMOBILES**
  ([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 5436040)

## règlement

Used about 614 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 614).

- **Vehicles** and bodyworks approved to this Regulation shall be so manufactured as to conform to the type approved by meeting the requirements set forth in paragraph 5 above.
  Tout véhicule ou carrosserie homologué en application du présent **règlement** doit être construit de façon à être conforme au type homologué en satisfaisant aux prescriptions spécifiées au paragraphe 5 ci-dessus.
  ([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 5538677)

## More sentences

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

- I've got a lot of friends at the Department of Motor **Vehicles**.
  J'ai de nombreux amis à la Préfecture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1970126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970126) [\#2084173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2084173))

- The word décarade, which expresses the departure of heavy **vehicles** at a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him.
  Le mot décarade, qui exprime le départ d'une lourde voiture au galop, est attribué à Villon, et il en est digne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21428)

- Recently, there has been a marked increase in the frequency of accidents involving lighter commercial **vehicles**.
  La fréquence des accidents de camions légers a augmenté de façon significative ces derniers temps.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291020)

## Grammar

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