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# étrangères — French to English

How French *étrangères* 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: étrangères (90 601). By style: everyday 110 · literary 1 · biblical 21 · parliamentary 5 785 · legal and administrative 4 695 · UN documents 79 989.

## foreign

Used about 73 326 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 101 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 5 182 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 369 · UN documents ≈ 66 658). Meaning: [foreign in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/foreign/).

- J'aime les langues **étrangères**.
  I like **foreign** languages!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and marloncori · checked, community translation · [\#773084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/773084) [\#901836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/901836))

- --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)

- Tous ceux-là avaient pris des femmes **étrangères**, et plusieurs en avaient eu des enfants.
  All these had taken **foreign** wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 10:44)

- Les manipulations des nations **étrangères** par la Russie sont dangereuses.
  Russia's manipulations of **foreign** nations are dangerous.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 983125)

- IAS 21 Effets des variations des cours des monnaies **étrangères**
  IAS 21 The effects of changes in **foreign** exchange rates
  ([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 524223)

## affairs

Used about 5 015 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 121 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 228 · UN documents ≈ 1 666). Meaning: [affairs in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/affairs/).

- 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)

- Ministère des affaires **étrangères** du Japon
  Ministry of Foreign **Affairs** of Japan
  ([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 327397)

- 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)

- Affaires **étrangères** (depuis le 25.8.2003), d.d.n.
  Foreign **Affairs** (since 25.8.2003), d.o.b.
  ([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 1174797)

- vice-ministre des affaires **étrangères** sous le régime des Taliban.
  Deputy Minister of Foreign **Affairs** under the Taliban regime.
  ([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 3390795)

## president

Used about 241 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 241). Meaning: [president in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/president/).

- Monsieur le Président, Madame la Ministre des Affaires **étrangères**, le résultat du référendum irlandais m'inquiète.
  Mr **President**, ladies and gentlemen, I am concerned about the result in Ireland.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 204371)

- Monsieur le Président, je soutiens pleinement, au nom de mon groupe, le président de la commission des affaires **étrangères**.
  Mr **President**, on behalf of my group, I should like to express our wholehearted support for the Chairman of the Committee.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 125266)

## More sentences

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

- Ziri a entendu des voix **étrangères**.
  Ziri heard strange voices.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11195536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11195536) [\#11611283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11611283))

- Ces idées sont **étrangères** à notre façon de penser.
  Those ideas are alien to our way of thinking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#49805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49805) [\#2142942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2142942))

- Le chien aboie contre toutes les personnes **étrangères**.
  The dog barks at all strangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sisyphe and CK · checked, community translation · [\#48256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/48256) [\#3141379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3141379))

## 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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