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# water — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: water (193 565), waters (28 414). By style: everyday 1 665 · literary 103 · biblical 577 · parliamentary 8 946 · legal and administrative 38 099 · UN documents 172 589.

## eaux

Used about 186 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 514 · literary ≈ 87 · biblical ≈ 529 · parliamentary ≈ 7 921 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 512 · UN documents ≈ 140 229). Forms: eau, eaux.

- The **water**'s cold.
  L'**eau** est froide.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3422364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3422364) [\#1984892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1984892))

- "But that column of **water**?"
  —Mais cette colonne d'**eau**!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3058)

- **Waters** flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
  Les **eaux** ont inondé ma tête; Je disais: Je suis perdu!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:54)

- I do not want to muddy the **waters**.
  Je ne souhaite pas rendre les **eaux** troubles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112179)

- EU **waters** of IV
  **Eaux** UE de la zone IV
  ([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 2410127)

## More sentences

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

- The president's off-the-cuff remarks have gotten him into hot **water**.
  Les remarques improvisées du président l'ont placé en mauvaise posture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#712961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/712961) [\#802140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802140))

- She **waters** the garden.
  Elle arrose le jardin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#8281525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8281525) [\#5258003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5258003))

- Roger **Waters** was found this morning in his hotel room, tragically alive.
  Roger Waters a été retrouvé ce matin dans sa chambre d'hôtel, tragiquement vivant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12153345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12153345) [\#12153458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12153458))

## 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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