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# états — French to English

How French *états* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: états (1 495 792). By style: everyday 440 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 115 367 · legal and administrative 189 400 · UN documents 1 190 581.

## states

Used about 1 248 509 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 247 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 103 350 · legal and administrative ≈ 177 563 · UN documents ≈ 967 347).

- Combien y a-t-il d'**États** en Inde ?
  How many **states** does India have?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hakaku and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1820601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1820601) [\#2924387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2924387))

- «Les **États**-Unis d'Amérique! s'écria Passepartout, voilà justement mon affaire!...»
  “The United **States**!” said Passepartout; “that’s just what I want!”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1883)

- 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)

- 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)

- **États** arabes et Europe
  Arab **States** and Europe
  ([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 15301712)

## member

Used about 28 750 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 3 946 · UN documents ≈ 24 804). Meaning: [member in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/member/).

- Les autorités des **États** membres soumettent un seul appareil à essai.
  The authorities of the **Member** State shall test one single unit.
  ([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 2361859)

- b) i) Augmentation du nombre d &apos; **États** Membres qui acceptent ou adoptent les négociations commerciales et les programmes/mesures de facilitation du commerce proposés par la CESAO
  (b) (i) Increased number of **member** countries accepting and/or adopting trade negotiation proposals and facilitation schemes/measures suggested by ESCWA
  ([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 16481162)

## america

Used about 92 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92).

- J'ai déjà visité les **États**-Unis.
  I have visited **America**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CN · checked, community translation · [\#253010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/253010) [\#535251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/535251))

- Nous devons détruire les **États**-Unis.
  We must destroy **America**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#11792534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11792534) [\#11791669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11791669))

- Il veut aller aux **États**-Unis d'Amérique.
  He wants to go to **America**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#252995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252995) [\#130692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130692))

- Les **États**-Unis d'Amérique ont aboli l'esclavage.
  **America** did away with slavery.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and shanghainese · checked, community translation · [\#67529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67529) [\#849506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/849506))

- Les **États**-Unis d'Amérique du Nord vont-ils envahir le Groenland ?
  Is **America** going to invade Greenland?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12968712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12968712) [\#12969363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12969363))

## More sentences

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

- Il y a peu de contraintes légale concernant la vente d'armes aux **États**-Unis.
  There are few legal constraints on the sale of firearms in the U.S.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wittydev and CM · checked, community translation · [\#241319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241319) [\#1147289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1147289))

- Que crois-tu qu'est la raison pour laquelle le football n'est pas aussi populaire aux **États**-Unis d'Amérique ?
  Why do you think soccer isn't popular in the US?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#67644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67644) [\#817144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817144))

- Je n'étais pas encore né qu'une guerre éclata entre le Japon et les **États**-Unis en décembre 1941.
  I was not yet born when a war between Japan and the U.S. broke out in December 1941.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#73288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73288) [\#9990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9990))

## 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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