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# élèves — French to English

How French *élèves* 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: élèves (51 956). By style: everyday 285 · literary 1 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 476 · legal and administrative 362 · UN documents 50 827.

## students

Used about 22 591 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 232 · parliamentary ≈ 69 · legal and administrative ≈ 53 · UN documents ≈ 22 237). Forms: student, students.

- Les **élèves** s'ennuient.
  The **students** are bored.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5518302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5518302) [\#7416104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7416104))

- Les mauvais **élèves** de l'Europe seraient donc comme toujours les États!
  As always, the poor **students** of Europe are the Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1151178)

- Lors de tous leurs vols en campagne en solo, les **élèves** pilotes se munissent:
  **Student** pilots shall carry on all solo cross-country flights:
  ([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 5156083)

- Pourcentage d &apos; **élèves** issus des minorités ethniques dans les écoles secondaires
  Rate of minority **students** in secondary 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 24362836)

- Il avertissait ses **élèves**.
  He warned his **students**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and svhschinese · checked, community translation · [\#3142126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3142126) [\#2512142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2512142))

## pupils

Used about 20 660 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 298 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 20 119).

- Les **élèves** s'ennuient.
  The **pupils** are bored.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10746111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10746111) [\#7416104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7416104))

- On permettait quelquefois aux **élèves** pensionnaires, comme grande récréation, de leur rendre visite; ce qui fait que ces jeunes mémoires ont gardé entre autres le souvenir de la mère Saint-Basile, de la mère Sainte-Scolastique et de la mère Jacob.
  Sometimes the **pupils** of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10692)

- Ainsi, le problème de certains **élèves** sera résolu en partie.
  So this will to some extent settle the problem of different **pupils**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1140920)

- délivrer les tickets/abonnements aux **élèves**,
  issue of tickets/passes to **pupils**,
  ([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 3482354)

- Écoles primaires avec **élèves** ayant des besoins spéciaux1
  National schools with **pupils** with special needs1
  ([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 13572486)

## schools

Used about 4 346 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 91 · UN documents ≈ 4 236). Forms: school, schools.

- Dans ces écoles, les **élèves** ont droit à quatre heures d'enseignement de la langue slovaque par semaine.
  In those **schools**, Slovak is taught for four hours a week.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1208192)

- réduire significativement le nombre d’**élèves** quittant l’école prématurément,
  significantly reducing the number of early **school** leavers,
  ([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 1389527)

- Dans le cadre de ce dernier, des petits déjeuners sont servis aux **élèves** des écoles primaires.
  Breakfast meals are served under this programme to children in primary **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 11959070)

- Les États membres devraient inclure ces thèmes, et en particulier la finance, dans les manuels scolaires destinés aux **élèves** de primaire et de secondaire.
  The Member States should include this topic, especially finance, in textbooks of primary and secondary **schools**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1162439)

- Trousseaux, requis d'études et autres objets mobiliers d'**élèves** ou étudiants
  **School** outfits, educational materials and related household effects
  ([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 4067579)

## teacher

Used about 2 118 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 118). Forms: teacher, teachers. Meaning: [teacher in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/teacher/).

- Le rapport **élèves**/enseignant est de 22:1 et le rapport **élèves**/classe est de 40:1.
  The pupil/**teacher** ratio is 22:1 and the pupil/class ratio is 40:1.
  ([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 7935508)

- Des associations parents/**élèves**, qui offrent une possibilité supplémentaire aux parents d &apos; apporter leur contribution aux écoles, ont maintenant été créées dans de nombreuses écoles primaires et secondaires.
  Parent / **Teacher** Associations, which offer a further opportunity for parents to make an input into schools, are now established in many primary and secondary 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 8060981)

## More sentences

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

- Si tu m’**élèves** un autel de pierre, tu ne le bâtiras point en pierres taillées; car en passant ton ciseau sur la pierre, tu la profanerais.
  If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 20:25)

- Et qui me fait échapper à mes ennemis! Tu m’**élèves** au-dessus de mes adversaires, Tu me délivres de l’homme violent.
  who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 22:49)

- Si tu t’**élèves** encore contre mon peuple, et si tu ne le laisses point aller,
  because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 9:17)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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