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# état — French to English

How French *état* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: état (1 160 740), étate (2), états (1 495 792). By style: everyday 822 · literary 47 · biblical 54 · parliamentary 153 467 · legal and administrative 378 604 · UN documents 2 123 540.

## state

Used about 1 707 867 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 437 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 44 761 · legal and administrative ≈ 59 157 · UN documents ≈ 1 603 489). Forms: state, states. Meaning: [state in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/state/).

- Tu n'es pas en **état** de conduire.
  You are in no **state** to drive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and petersmr · checked, community translation · [\#3384294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3384294) [\#3359805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3359805))

- L'âme qui aime et qui souffre est à l'**état** sublime.
  The soul which loves and suffers is in a **state** of sublimity.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18815)

- Ce n’est pas en vue de mes besoins que je dis cela, car j’ai appris à être content de l’**état** où je me trouve.
  Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever **state** I am, to be content in it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 4:11)

- Premièrement, la situation aux **États**-Unis.
  Firstly the situation in the United **States**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 227822)

- Établissement d’engraissement (nom et numéro CICTA) et **État** de destination
  Farm (name and ICCAT No.) and **State** of destination
  ([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 2132634)

## member

Used about 407 221 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79 931 · legal and administrative ≈ 283 953 · UN documents ≈ 43 338). Meaning: [member in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/member/).

- Pour les nouveaux **États** membres, cela sera aussi primordial.
  It will also be significant for the new **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 430253)

- **État** de Mon, membre de la CEC de l'USDA
  Mon State USDA CEC **member**
  ([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 1425846)

- Les Tonga sont devenues **État** Membre de l’ONU le 14 septembre 1999.
  Tonga became a **Member** of the United Nations on 14 September 1999.
  ([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 12630070)

- Quels sont les **États** membres que nous pourrions qualifier de mauvais élèves?
  Which **Member** States could be picked out as the bad pupils?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1912855)

- Les **États** membres sont destinataires de la présente décision.
  This Decision is addressed to the **Member** States.
  ([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 406522)

## More sentences

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

- Vous êtes vraiment en mauvais **état**.
  You're really in bad shape.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3820879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3820879) [\#6889086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6889086))

- D'après les médecins de Tom, son **état** est incurable.
  According to Tom's doctors, his condition is incurable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Toynop and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4015153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4015153) [\#5803063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5803063))

- L'**état** de Tom a empiré.
  Tom's condition has worsened.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5856435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5856435) [\#3056972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3056972))

## 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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