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# étrangers — French to English

How French *étrangers* 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: étrangers (89 325). By style: everyday 151 · literary 5 · biblical 89 · parliamentary 1 871 · legal and administrative 2 528 · UN documents 84 681.

## foreign

Used about 67 180 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 101 · biblical ≈ 32 · parliamentary ≈ 1 325 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 212 · UN documents ≈ 63 511). Forms: foreign, foreigners. Meaning: [foreign in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/foreign/).

- Tom a deux amis **étrangers**.
  Tom has two **foreign** friends.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and maydoo · checked, community translation · [\#4417472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4417472) [\#2896628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2896628))

- Ils étaient alors peu nombreux, Très peu nombreux, et **étrangers** dans le pays,
  when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and **foreigners** 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 · 1CH 16:19)

- Les travailleurs **étrangers** sont plus que les bienvenus.
  **Foreign** employees are more than welcome.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1065495)

- Investissements directs **étrangers** (AF.m1)
  **Foreign** direct investment (AF.m1)
  ([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 2943322)

- 5. Mineurs **étrangers** en Italie 230 - 289 58
  5. **Foreign** minors in Italy 232 291 55
  ([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 15182175)

## investment

Used about 39 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 39). Meaning: [investment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/investment/).

- Les investissements **étrangers** doivent rester suspendus jusqu'à ce que le FMI accepte le Pakistan comme partenaire à part entière.
  International **investment** has been suspended until the IMF accepts Pakistan as a full partner.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2037274)

## More sentences

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

- Ne te fie pas à des **étrangers** !
  Do not trust strangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2194346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2194346) [\#4839239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4839239))

- Je n'ai jamais fait confiance à des **étrangers**.
  I've never trusted strangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2396215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396215) [\#2397585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2397585))

- C'était ma première nuit parmi des **étrangers**.
  It was my first night among strangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#42406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42406) [\#12364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12364))

## 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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