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# world — English to French

How English *world* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: world (523 272), worlds (643). By style: everyday 1 631 · literary 86 · biblical 209 · parliamentary 36 818 · legal and administrative 8 949 · UN documents 476 222.

## monde

Used about 380 554 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 437 · literary ≈ 74 · biblical ≈ 184 · parliamentary ≈ 28 764 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 810 · UN documents ≈ 342 285). Forms: monde, mondes, mondial, mondiale.

- The **world** is harsh.
  Le **monde** est difficile.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1363635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1363635) [\#1130985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1130985))

- The **world** is a great diamond.
  Le **monde** est un gros diamant!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3080)

- Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the **world** hates you.
  Ne vous étonnez pas, frères, si le **monde** vous hait.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1JO 3:13)

- It has gained the **world**'s trust.
  Il a gagné la confiance du **monde** entier.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1192593)

- Rest of the **world** including all sub-sectors \[25\]
  Reste du **monde**, tous sous-secteurs compris \[25\]
  ([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 1318123)

## nous

Used about 17 221 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 301 · UN documents ≈ 14 882).

- We have the best of both **worlds**!
  **Nous** avons le beurre et l’argent du beurre !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10680675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10680675) [\#10680676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10680676))

- But one chance in a thousand, or ten thousand, is still a chance; whilst death from starvation would leave us not the smallest hope in the **world**.
  Une chance sur mille est toujours une chance, tandis que la mort par la faim ne **nous** laissait d'espoir dans aucune proportion, si petite qu'elle fût.
  ([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 3731)

- But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the **worlds** for our glory,
  **nous** prêchons la sagesse de Dieu, mystérieuse et cachée, que Dieu, avant les siècles, avait destinée pour notre gloire,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 2:7)

- We are a **world** away from the real situation.
  **Nous** sommes à mille lieues de la situation réelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1246892)

- We face immense challenges in both the developing and developed **worlds**.
  **Nous** sommes confrontés à des problèmes immenses dans les pays en développement et dans les pays développés.
  ([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 6016127)

## More sentences

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

- The most incomprehensible thing about the **world** is that it is at all comprehensible.
  Ce qu'il y a de plus incompréhensible dans l'univers, c'est qu'il soit compréhensible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jerom and Clavain · checked, community translation · [\#437134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437134) [\#437135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/437135))

- If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the **world** would have been changed.
  Le nez de Cléopâtre, s'il eût été plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait changé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#30983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30983) [\#341751](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/341751))

- What in the **world** got into you?
  Qu'est-ce qui a bien pu te prendre ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3731980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3731980) [\#4428536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4428536))

## 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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