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# étrangère — French to English

How French *étrangère* 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: étrangère (29 497), étrangères (90 601). By style: everyday 238 · literary 2 · biblical 33 · parliamentary 11 476 · legal and administrative 6 732 · UN documents 101 617.

## foreign

Used about 104 578 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 211 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 10 041 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 452 · UN documents ≈ 87 856). Meaning: [foreign in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/foreign/).

- Il a une voiture **étrangère**.
  He has a **foreign** car.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sciuro and witbrock · checked, community translation · [\#428081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/428081) [\#427821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/427821))

- --Cet homme, forcé de se cacher, pour des raisons du reste **étrangères** à la politique, avait pris l'égout pour domicile et en avait une clef.
  “This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which are **foreign** to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a key to it.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31757)

- Comment chanterions-nous les cantiques de l’Éternel Sur une terre **étrangère**?
  How can we sing the LORD’s song in a **foreign** land?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 137:4)

- C'est le projet de politique **étrangère** et de défense commune.
  This is the draft common **foreign** and defence policy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 129892)

- résident de citoyenneté **étrangère**,
  resident with **foreign** citizenship,
  ([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 739272)

## affairs

Used about 1 298 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 239 · UN documents ≈ 1 059). Meaning: [affairs in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/affairs/).

- Avec l'élection d'un nouveau président américain, il est temps de faire passer ce sujet en tête de notre agenda de politique **étrangère**.
  With the election of a new US President, it is time to move this issue to the top of our external **affairs** agenda.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1185986)

- par le Ministre des affaires **étrangères** de la Yougoslavie
  **Affairs** of Yugoslavia addressed to the Secretary-General
  ([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 1269454)

- Je salue de tout cœur la décision du Conseil «Affaires générales et relations **étrangères**» du 11 octobre 2004 de fournir une assistance aux services sanitaires libyens.
  I very much welcome the decision of the European Union's General **Affairs** and External Relations Council on 11 October 2004 to provide assistance to the Libyan health services.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 658624)

## policy

Used about 239 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 239). Meaning: [policy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/policy/).

- Celui-ci ne prévoit pas de politique **étrangère** commune en matière de sécurité énergétique.
  In the Treaty there is no common external security **policy**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1199877)

- Le principe directeur de la politique **étrangère** européenne est le multilatéralisme.
  The guiding principle of European external **policy** is multilateralism.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 641884)

## language

Used about 5 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5). Meaning: [language in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/language/).

- Il est difficile de traduire un poème dans une langue **étrangère**.
  It is difficult to translate a poem into another **language**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and megamanenm · checked, community translation · [\#263395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/263395) [\#389665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/389665))

- Je pense que les Anglais doivent être plus habitués aux apprenants de langue **étrangère** que les gens des autres pays.
  I think that English people might be more used to **language** learners than people in other countries.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wakano and eastasiastudent · checked, community translation · [\#888440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/888440) [\#1907699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1907699))

## More sentences

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

- La femme qu'il prenait pour sa tante, était une **étrangère**.
  The woman who he thought was his aunt was a stranger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#283796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283796) [\#1586590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1586590))

- Ici je suis une **étrangère**.
  I am a stranger here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · [\#253493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/253493) [\#11652565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11652565))

- Je suis une **étrangère** ici.
  I'm a stranger here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#61358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61358) [\#2068419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2068419))

## 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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