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# young — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: young (120 791), youngs (2). By style: everyday 1 089 · literary 205 · biblical 315 · parliamentary 9 620 · legal and administrative 3 738 · UN documents 105 826.

## jeunes

Used about 96 832 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 089 · literary ≈ 162 · biblical ≈ 236 · parliamentary ≈ 8 217 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 899 · UN documents ≈ 84 229). Forms: jeune, jeunes.

- We're still **young**.
  On reste encore **jeunes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#2240711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240711) [\#14017928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14017928))

- The **young** man interrupted her:
  Le **jeune** homme l'interrompit:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2234)

- Fire devoured their **young** men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
  Le feu dévora ses **jeunes** hommes, Et ses vierges ne furent pas célébrées;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:63)

- We need to give our **young** people dignity.
  Nous devons donner cette dignité à nos **jeunes**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1462160)

- Slips, rooted, and **young** growth
  Boutures racinées et **jeunes** plants
  ([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 270550)

## enfants

Used about 2 970 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 200 · legal and administrative ≈ 610 · UN documents ≈ 2 160).

- It is imposing the incorporation in visas of biometric data (prints of all ten fingers) even for children as **young** as 12 years old.
  Elle impose l'intégration, dans les visas, des données biométriques (empreintes des dix doigts), même celles d'**enfants** d'à peine 12 ans.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1247342)

- 0,6 g/day for **young** children
  0,6 g/jour pour les **enfants** en bas âge
  ([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 4461058)

- 204. In general the Children and **Young** Persons Act, 2005 provides for the protection and security of children and **young** persons within the Territory.
  204. En général, la Children and Young Persons Act, 2005 assure la protection et la sécurité des **enfants** et des mineurs dans le territoire.
  ([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 18966643)

- ‘**young** children’ means children aged between one and three years;
  «**enfants** en bas âge»: les enfants âgés de un à trois ans;
  ([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 915938)

- Other processed cereal based foods for infants and **young** children
  Autres préparations à base de céréales destinées aux nourrissons et aux **enfants** en bas âge
  ([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 2039052)

## gens

Used about 13 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 13).

- When David’s **young** men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.
  Lorsque les **gens** de David furent arrivés, ils répétèrent à Nabal toutes ces paroles, au nom de David. Puis ils se turent.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 25:9)

- Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the **young** men who follow my lord.
  Accepte ce présent que ta servante apporte à mon seigneur, et qu’il soit distribué aux **gens** qui marchent à la suite de mon seigneur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 25:27)

## fille

Used about 4 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4).

- The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this **young** girl had not come into the world to be homely.
  Ce qui était poignant surtout, c'est que cette **fille** n'était pas venue au monde pour être laide.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15924)

## More sentences

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

- “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a **young** woman?
  J’avais fait un pacte avec mes yeux, Et je n’aurais pas arrêté mes regards sur une vierge.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 31:1)

- The **young** lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
  Les lionceaux rugissent après la proie, Et demandent à Dieu leur nourriture.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 104:21)

- The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the **young** of your flock will be cursed.
  Le fruit de tes entrailles, le fruit de ton sol, les portées de ton gros et de ton menu bétail, toutes ces choses seront maudites.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 28:18)

## 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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