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# adolescents — French to English

How French *adolescents* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: adolescents (44 483). By style: everyday 44 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 334 · legal and administrative 181 · UN documents 43 923.

## adolescents

Used about 26 788 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 104 · legal and administrative ≈ 143 · UN documents ≈ 26 537).

- Les **adolescents** se disputent souvent avec leurs parents.
  **Adolescents** often quarrel with their parents.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mayliu and CK · checked, community translation · [\#272001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/272001) [\#822861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/822861))

- Il est clair que ces boissons ne sont pas exclusivement destinées aux enfants ou aux **adolescents**.
  It is clear that these drinks are not solely aimed at children or **adolescents**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 690781)

- **Adolescents**, adultes et personnes âgées
  **Adolescents**, adults and elderly
  ([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 4485310)

- 5. Les mesures prises pour assurer aux **adolescents** les soins appropriés
  5. Measures taken to ensure appropriate care for **adolescents**
  ([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 18877728)

- Les **adolescents** veulent qu'on leur donne des ordres pour qu'ils puissent y désobéir.
  **Adolescents** want to be given orders so that they can disobey them.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2809590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2809590) [\#5333472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5333472))

## young

Used about 5 513 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 5 490). Meaning: [young in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/young/).

- Les **adolescents** se fatiguent et se lassent, Et les jeunes hommes chancellent;
  Even the youths faint and get weary, and the **young** men utterly fall;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 40:30)

- Il est établi que les jeunes consommateurs et les **adolescents** représentent une partie importante du marché des produits et services.
  It is a fact that **young** and adolescent consumers account for a significant part of the markets in goods and services.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1126616)

- Orienter les **adolescents** selon les filières choisies.
  Helping the **young** people to choose a course.
  ([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 3779843)

- Protection des enfants et des **adolescents** dans l &apos; emploi et le travail (voir par. 3)
  Protection of children and **young** persons in relation to employment and work (re para. 3)
  ([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 8050797)

- L'Europe affirme ainsi clairement que les armes à feu ne sont pas quelque chose à laquelle les enfants et les **adolescents** peuvent avoir accès.
  Europe is thus sending out a clear message that firearms are not something that **young** people should have access to.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1001474)

## children

Used about 2 832 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 84 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 2 745).

- Les enfants, les **adolescents** en particulier cherchent autre chose, cherchent des débats.
  It is **children** and young people who are looking for something different, seeking information and debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 340824)

- Services sociaux pour les enfants et les **adolescents**
  Welfare services for **children** and young people
  ([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 1497099)

- 1024. Les enfants et les **adolescents** sont généralement incarcérés avant l &apos; enquête visant à établir leur innocence ou leur culpabilité.
  1024. **Children** are usually arrested before their innocence or guilt is investigated.
  ([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 7945751)

- Les enfants et les **adolescents**, mais aussi les femmes, ont malheureusement encore besoin de notre protection particulière.
  **Children** and young people need our special protection, and unfortunately this still applies to women too.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2029434)

- Au cours de cette opération, au moins sept civils palestiniens, dont trois **adolescents**, ont été tués et une douzaine de personnes ont été blessées.
  This operation killed at least seven Palestinian civilians, including three teenage **children**, and wounded a dozen more.
  ([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 9333755)

## teenagers

Used about 1 933 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 1 830).

- L'un des **adolescents** hurla.
  One of the **teenagers** screamed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and seltsameseeds · checked, community translation · [\#4284653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4284653) [\#4551249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4551249))

- Au début du mois de novembre, plusieurs **adolescents** en ont fait les frais.
  At the beginning of November, several **teenagers** became victims of this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318935)

- mener des actions de mobilisation ciblant des publics spécifiques (par exemple, enfants/**adolescents**, retraités, entreprises, locuteurs de langues étrangères),
  carry out engagement actions targeted to specific audiences (e.g. children/**teenagers**, pensioners, businesses, foreign-language speakers);
  ([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 5078705)

- Le Programme de lutte contre les violences et l &apos; exploitation sexuelle des enfants et des **adolescents** a été créé en 2002.
  The Program of Fight Against Abuse and Sexual Exploration of Children and **Teenagers** has been created in 2002.
  ([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 18545259)

- Seuls les **adolescents** peuvent le faire.
  Only **teenagers** can do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6064171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6064171) [\#8237534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8237534))

## age

Used about 1 841 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 11 · UN documents ≈ 1 830). Meaning: [age in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/age/).

- Ne pas utiliser chez les enfants/**adolescents** âgés de moins de 18 ans.
  Not to be used on a person under 18 years of **age**.
  ([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 4952329)

- La question est triple : de combien d &apos; immigrants a—t—on besoin pour regarnir la base d &apos; **adolescents**, qui se rétrécit, de la structure par âge occidentale ?
  The question is threefold: what number of immigrants is needed to replenish the dwindling juvenile base of the occidental **age**-structure?
  ([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 4909607)

- Ne pas utiliser chez les enfants/**adolescents** âgés de moins de dix-huit ans.
  Not to be used on a person under 18 years of **age**.
  ([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 2911627)

- Mme Manalo souhaiterait des éclaircissements sur les circonstances exceptionnelles dans lesquelles des **adolescents** de 16 sont autorisés à se marier alors que l &apos; âge légal du mariage est 18 ans (par. 301).
  62. Ms. Manalo requested clarification as to the exceptional circumstances that would allow 16-year-olds to marry although the legal **age** for marriage was 18 (report, para. 301).
  ([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 11856899)

- “Ne pas utiliser chez les enfants/**adolescents** âgés de moins de dix-huit ans.
  Not to be used on a person under 18 years of **age**.
  ([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 3039492)

## health

Used about 7 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 7). Meaning: [health in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/health/).

- Ce pays a également été à l’origine du projet «Santé mentale des enfants et des **adolescents** dans une Europe élargie: développement de politiques et de pratiques efficaces».
  Lithuania has also initiated the project 'Child and adolescent mental **health** in an enlarged European Union: development of effective policies and practices'.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 846054)

## More sentences

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

- Ces **adolescents** sont vraiment drôles.
  These teens are really funny.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8783876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8783876) [\#8783892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8783892))

- Les **adolescents** font beaucoup de choses stupides.
  Teens do a lot of dumb stuff.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1383508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1383508) [\#10312013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10312013))

- Pensez-vous que vos parents ont passé suffisamment de temps avec vous lorsque vous étiez **adolescents** ?
  Do you think your parents spent enough time with you when you were in your teens?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#909518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909518) [\#1406753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1406753))

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