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# autour — French to English

How French *autour* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: autour (26 389), autours (10). By style: everyday 406 · literary 96 · biblical 158 · parliamentary 2 804 · legal and administrative 2 412 · UN documents 20 523.

## around

Used about 12 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 333 · literary ≈ 40 · biblical ≈ 132 · parliamentary ≈ 1 110 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 280 · UN documents ≈ 9 329). Meaning: [around in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/around/).

- Je regardai **autour** de moi.
  I looked **around** me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#321857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/321857) [\#849175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/849175))

- Il semblait ne rien voir **autour** de lui.
  He seemed to see nothing **around** him.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13798)

- Alors Israël plaça une embuscade **autour** de Guibea.
  Israel set ambushes all **around** Gibeah.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 20:29)

- Tout **autour** de lui, la situation est précaire. La Somalie a pratiquement cessé d’exister en tant qu’État.
  All **around** it, the situation is precarious.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 758670)

- Espace exempt de métal **autour** des roues
  Metal-free space **around** wheels
  ([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 831388)

## More sentences

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

- Ne tournez pas **autour** du pot, dites simplement ce que vous pensez.
  Don't be mealy-mouthed, just say what you mean.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12383093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12383093) [\#12383095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12383095))

- Les moucherons volèrent en nuée **autour** de nous.
  The gnats swarmed us.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and mccarras · checked, community translation · [\#8983389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8983389) [\#13498407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13498407))

- Les neurosciences ont fait leur apparition **autour** des années quatre-vingt-dix.
  Neurosciences emerged in the nineteen-ninetiesishes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#940531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/940531) [\#940532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/940532))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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