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# école — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: école (61 370), écoles (78 355). By style: everyday 2 028 · literary 21 · parliamentary 3 281 · legal and administrative 2 134 · UN documents 132 261.

## school

Used about 118 172 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 915 · literary ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 3 042 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 601 · UN documents ≈ 111 595). Forms: school, schools. Meaning: [school in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/school/).

- Où se trouve l'**école** ?
  Where's the **school**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13320607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13320607) [\#1054844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1054844))

- --Vous n'étiez pas avant-hier à l'**école**?
  “You were not at the **school** day before yesterday.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14240)

- Les **écoles** ne fonctionnent plus.
  **Schools** can no longer remain open.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 164511)

- soit d'une **école** européenne,
  a European **school**; or
  ([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 3835960)

- Soins de santé dans les **écoles**
  Health care in **schools**
  ([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 18850510)

## primary

Used about 1 378 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 378). Meaning: [primary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/primary/).

- Il repose sur la parité horaire en français et en langue régionale, l &apos; horaire de français étant maintenu intégralement à l &apos; **école** élémentaire.
  It is based on the principle of equal time in French and the regional language, with the timetable for French being fully maintained at **primary** level.
  ([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 29650110)

## education

Used about 56 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34 · legal and administrative ≈ 22). Meaning: [education in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/education/).

- - Les TIC doivent être intégrées à l’éducation depuis l’**école** primaire jusqu’à l’enseignement supérieur et à la formation professionnelle.
  - ICT must be integrated into **education** from the most elementary levels to higher education and vocational training.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 519151)

- L'enseignement public organisé par cette haute **école** spécialisée doit être considéré comme une activité non économique (voir le considérant 123).
  The public **education** organised by this institution should be regarded as a non-economic activity (see recital 123).
  ([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 3804633)

## children

Used about 34 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34).

- Des logements décents sont nécessaires, des logements où les enfants peuvent se préparer pour aller à l'**école**, qui sont éclairés et chauffés.
  Suitable housing conditions are required, where **children** can prepare for class, and where they have lighting and heating.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1511955)

## More sentences

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

- Après que je fus diplômé de l'**école**, j'obtins un poste dans l'entreprise de mon père.
  After I graduated from college, I got a job with my father's company.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953082) [\#1404919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1404919))

- Il est frais émoulu de l'**école**.
  He's fresh out of college.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1286893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1286893) [\#1287037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1287037))

- Rappelle-toi les jours des vieilles cours d'**écoles**.
  Remember the days of the old schoolyards.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#481897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481897) [\#552478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/552478))

## Grammar

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