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# biens — French to English

How French *biens* 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: biens (132 865). By style: everyday 39 · literary 1 · biblical 98 · parliamentary 2 942 · legal and administrative 15 806 · UN documents 113 979.

## property

Used about 65 165 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 123 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 293 · UN documents ≈ 61 739). Meaning: [property in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/property/).

- Ils ont perdu leurs **biens**.
  They lost their **property**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#802169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802169) [\#11277474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11277474))

- Jaziz, l’Hagarénien, sur les brebis. Tous ceux-là étaient intendants des **biens** du roi David.
  All these were the rulers of the **property** which was King David’s.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 27:31)

- Les tremblements de terre sont des événements catastrophiques qui coûtent de nombreuses vies humaines et qui causent des dégâts énormes aux **biens** et aux infrastructures.
  Earthquakes are catastrophic events that claim very many lives and cause huge damage to **property**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1087884)

- Restitution de **biens** gelés à la victime
  Restitution of frozen **property** to the victim
  ([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 4730586)

- **Biens**, installations et équipements
  **Property** Plant and Equipment
  ([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 21214219)

## goods

Used about 32 786 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 1 839 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 549 · UN documents ≈ 21 371). Meaning: [goods in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/goods/).

- Nombre de pays importent différents **biens**.
  Different countries import many **goods**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by avqXb0uv and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#681086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681086) [\#2501785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2501785))

- N'est-ce donc pas assez qu'on ait donné tous mes **biens** à mes juges, ma vaisselle à monsieur de Torcy, ma librairie à maître Pierre Doriolle, ma tapisserie au gouverneur du Roussillon?
  Is it not enough to have given all my **goods** to my judges, my plate to Monsieur de Torcy, my library to Master Pierre Doriolle, my tapestry to the governor of the Roussillon?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7471)

- Ils enlevèrent aussi, avec ses **biens**, Lot, fils du frère d’Abram, qui demeurait à Sodome; et ils s’en allèrent.
  They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his **goods**, and departed.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 14:12)

- Les **biens** à double usage ne sont pas des produits créneaux.
  Dual-use items are not niche **goods**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1527083)

- **Biens** ou services distincts
  Distinct **goods** or services
  ([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 4411444)

## services

Used about 2 375 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 375). Meaning: [services in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/services/).

- Aspects techniques du passage de l &apos; enregistrement des **biens** fonciers à la réglementation/ prestation de services
  Technical aspects of the shift from land registration to regulation/provision of **services**
  ([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 20841814)

## More sentences

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

- La confiscation de tes **biens** est la dernière chose dont tu devrais t'inquiéter.
  Forfeiture of your assets is the last thing you should be worried about.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#8860436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8860436) [\#9027769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9027769))

- Il a perdu tous ses **biens**.
  He lost all his assets.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#13872485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13872485) [\#13872486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13872486))

- Tom a perdu une grande partie de ses **biens** dans l'incendie.
  Tom lost most of his belongings in the fire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4929415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4929415) [\#7960258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7960258))

## Grammar

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