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# wage — English to French

How English *wage* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: wage (22 413), wages (16 307). By style: everyday 55 · literary 6 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 2 734 · legal and administrative 2 364 · UN documents 33 522.

## salaire

Used about 27 415 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 1 709 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 551 · UN documents ≈ 24 094). Forms: salaire, salaires.

- My monthly **wage** is 300,000 yen.
  Mon **salaire** mensuel est 300 000 yen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#250653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250653) [\#7787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7787))

- “So this is as much as to say, perverse and thieving knave that you are, that you permit yourself to be lacking in respect towards the Auditor of the Châtelet, to the magistrate committed to the popular police of Paris, charged with searching out crimes, delinquencies, and evil conduct; with controlling all trades, and interdicting monopoly; with maintaining the pavements; with debarring the hucksters of chickens, poultry, and water-fowl; of superintending the measuring of fagots and other sorts of wood; of purging the city of mud, and the air of contagious maladies; in a word, with attending continually to public affairs, without **wages** or hope of salary!
  «C'est donc à dire, maître pervers et rapinier que vous êtes, que vous vous permettez de manquer à l'auditeur du Châtelet, au magistrat commis à la police populaire de Paris, chargé de faire recherche des crimes, délits et mauvais trains, de contrôler tous métiers et interdire le monopole, d'entretenir les pavés, d'empêcher les regrattiers de poulailles, volailles et sauvagine, de faire mesurer la bûche et autres sortes de bois, de purger la ville des boues et l'air des maladies contagieuses, de vaquer continuellement au fait du public, en un mot, sans gages ni espérances de **salaire**!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2930)

- He said, “Appoint me your **wages**, and I will give it.”
  fixe-moi ton **salaire**, et je te le donnerai.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 30:28)

- The **wage** gap is still unacceptably wide.
  Les écarts de **salaires** restent inacceptables.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1078069)

- **Wages** per FTE (EUR)
  **Salaires** par EPT (en EUR)
  ([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 2583646)

## minimum

Used about 1 412 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · UN documents ≈ 1 397).

- There's no minimum **wage** here.
  Il n'y a pas de salaire **minimum**, ici.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1542369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1542369) [\#1542646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1542646))

- Another difference emerges regarding the minimum **wage**.
  Another difference emerges regarding the **minimum** wage.
  ([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 16747418)

- The minimum **wage** needs to go up.
  Il faut augmenter le salaire **minimum**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5991391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5991391) [\#11227406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11227406))

- The consequences of doubling the minimum **wage**: the case of Indonesia.
  The consequences of doubling the **minimum** wage: the case of Indonesia.
  ([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 6703632)

- What's the minimum **wage** in Ghana?
  Quel est le salaire **minimum** au Ghana ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by danepo and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3174647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3174647) [\#3326896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3326896))

## travailleurs

Used about 912 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 114 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 698).

- Some workers don't even earn a living **wage**.
  Certains **travailleurs** ne gagnent même pas de quoi vivre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3091299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3091299) [\#12650280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12650280))

- Women continue to work in the low-**wage** sector and even here there is differentiation between male and female workers.
  Les femmes continuent à travailler dans les secteurs les moins rémunérés et, même là, une différence existe entre les **travailleurs** et les travailleuses.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1024240)

- Aid for the employment of disabled workers in the form of **wage** subsidies (Art. 41)
  Aides à l'emploi de **travailleurs** handicapés sous forme de subventions salariales (art. 41)
  ([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 1584085)

- According to FIDH/BCHR/BHRS, this is because of severe exploitation and low **wages** of domestic and foreign workers in the private sector.
  D &apos; après la FIDH/BCHR/BHRS, ceci s &apos; explique par l &apos; exploitation et la très faible rémunération des **travailleurs** nationaux et étrangers dans le secteur privé.
  ([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 18544649)

- We need to be sure that we are pressing the need for workers' rights – on low **wages**, on long hours and on the lack of secure contracts.
  Nous devons être sûrs que nous poussons au respect des droits des **travailleurs** en matière de rémunération, d’horaires de travail et de sécurité des contrats conclus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 714919)

## salariaux

Used about 849 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57 · legal and administrative ≈ 443 · UN documents ≈ 349).

- Furthermore, productivity gains and **wage** increases must go hand in hand.
  Il faut que les gains de productivité et les progrès **salariaux** aillent de pair.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1989207)

- **Wage** costs per employee
  Coûts **salariaux** par travailleur
  ([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 489662)

- Kindly provide information on the outcome of the study, including any recommendations for action to desegregate the labour market and reduce the **wage** gaps.
  Veuillez rendre compte des résultats de l &apos; étude, notamment des recommandations concernant des mesures de déségrégation du marché du travail et de réduction des écarts **salariaux**.
  ([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 15117181)

- Cheap services with **wage** costs around 60% lower will be a tremendous challenge for SMEs and craft trades.
  Des services bon marché avec des coûts **salariaux** de quelque 60 % inférieurs à l' Est posent un énorme défi aux PME et à l' artisanat.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 252173)

- **wage** costs being distorted;
  une distorsion des coûts **salariaux**,
  ([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 4991015)

## More sentences

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

- Americans are **wage** slaves.
  Les Américains sont des esclaves salariés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10664412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10664412) [\#10664413](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10664413))

- Would you work for minimum **wage**?
  Travaillerais-tu au SMIC ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2943008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2943008) [\#3290861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3290861))

- They're barely paid minimum **wage**.
  Ils sont à peine payés le SMIC.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#1336113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336113) [\#3290864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3290864))

## 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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