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# îles — French to English

How French *îles* 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: îles (56 252). By style: everyday 29 · literary 2 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 1 732 · legal and administrative 4 605 · UN documents 49 854.

## islands

Used about 49 867 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 1 407 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 742 · UN documents ≈ 44 661). Forms: island, islands.

- La Grèce a beaucoup d'**îles**.
  Greece has many **islands**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and freddy1 · checked, community translation · [\#2122300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2122300) [\#6820564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6820564))

- Le 3, le capitaine reconnut Myganness, la plus orientale de ces **îles**, et, à partir de ce moment, il marcha droit au cap Portland, situé sur la côte méridionale de l'Islande.
  On the 8th the captain made out Myganness, the southernmost of these **islands**, and from that moment took a straight course for Cape Portland, the most southerly point of Iceland.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 802)

- Et toutes les **îles** s’enfuirent, et les montagnes ne furent pas retrouvées.
  Every **island** fled away, and the mountains were not found.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 16:20)

- Je retourne aux **îles** Canaries.
  I am returning to the Canary **Islands**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1628581)

- **Îles** Turks et Caicos
  Turks and Caicos **Islands**
  ([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 1801419)

## fiji

Used about 240 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 144 · legal and administrative ≈ 96).

- On dit toujours que le conflit aux **îles** Fidji est d'origine ethnique.
  The talk is always of how the conflict in **Fiji** runs along ethnic lines.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 899230)

- Le 11 décembre 2006, le Conseil de l’Union européenne a condamné le coup d’État militaire aux **Îles** Fidji.
  On 11 December 2006 the Council of the European Union condemned the military takeover in **Fiji**.
  ([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 1154555)

- Monsieur le Président, nous assistons une fois de plus à un coup d'État aux **îles** Fidji.
  author. - Mr President, yet again we are confronted with a coup d'état in **Fiji**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 899212)

- Par ailleurs, je ne pense pas qu'il y ait un antagonisme ethnique fondamental dans les **îles** Fidji.
  Secondly, I disagree that there is a fundamental ethnic antagonism in **Fiji**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 89355)

- C'est le message qui m'a été transmis à la fois par le gouvernement de la Papouasie - Nouvelle-Guinée et celui des **Îles** Fidji.
  That is the message I got, both from the governments of Papua New Guinea and **Fiji**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1231115)

## More sentences

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

- L'été prochain je veux aller aux **îles** Hawaii.
  Next summer, I want to go to Hawaii.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and CN · checked, community translation · [\#378669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/378669) [\#378670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/378670))

- L'équipage de Christophe Colomb s'est souvent plaint qu'il saturait la connexion wifi du navire pour s'adonner à des jeux en ligne, mais il réfuta ces accusations avec indignation, en faisant valoir qu'il recherchait des **îles** lointaines qu'ils devaient encore découvrir à l'époque.
  His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#547075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547075) [\#763370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/763370))

- A tous les rois de Tyr, à tous les rois de Sidon, Et aux rois des **îles** qui sont au-delà de la mer;
  and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 25:22)

## Grammar

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