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# adultes — French to English

How French *adultes* 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: adultes (33 947). By style: everyday 61 · parliamentary 896 · legal and administrative 1 321 · UN documents 31 669.

## adults

Used about 32 537 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · parliamentary ≈ 896 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 238 · UN documents ≈ 30 349). Forms: adult, adults.

- Il a deux fils **adultes**.
  He has two **adult** sons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by calypsow and glavkos · checked, community translation · [\#3531775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3531775) [\#11799834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11799834))

- Les études en question sont basées sur des tests impliquant des **adultes**.
  The studies are based on trials involving **adults**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1512364)

- 263 mg/jour pour les **adultes**
  263 mg/day for **adults**
  ([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 5272955)

- b) Les mineurs sont séparés des **adultes**;
  (b) Juveniles from **adults**;
  ([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 22268260)

- Nous sommes désormais **adultes**.
  Now we're **adults**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and ravensfeather · checked, community translation · [\#9821018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9821018) [\#9821023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9821023))

## children

Used about 662 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 660).

- Tous les **adultes** ont été des enfants.
  All grown-ups were once **children**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#6196824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6196824) [\#7966063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7966063))

- 73. Il n &apos; existe pas encore de législation protégeant les **adultes** et les enfants des discriminations motivée par l &apos; orientation sexuelle.
  73. There is still no protective legislation rendering it unlawful to discriminate against people, including **children**, on grounds of sexual orientation.
  ([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 24354763)

- Les enfants veulent se comporter comme des **adultes**.
  **Children** want to act like grown-ups.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Goofy and CK · checked, community translation · [\#245631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245631) [\#480724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/480724))

## young

Used about 28 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 28). Meaning: [young in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/young/).

- Nombre escompté d'**adultes** (d) vaccinés Nombre escompté de jeunes (d) animaux vaccinés
  Number of **young** (d) animals expected to be vaccinated
  ([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 391277)

## More sentences

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

- Mes garçons sont tous **adultes**.
  My boys are all grown up.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3636089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3636089) [\#4880338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4880338))

- Les **adultes** parlaient entre eux.
  The grownups were talking among themselves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5369330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5369330) [\#5369549](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5369549))

- Mes fils sont devenus **adultes**.
  My sons have grown up.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2834399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2834399) [\#11931920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11931920))

## 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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