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# bissau — French to English

How French *bissau* 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: bissau (22 906). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 193 · legal and administrative 651 · UN documents 22 061.

## bissau

Used about 21 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 189 · legal and administrative ≈ 651 · UN documents ≈ 20 682).

- Tom habite à **Bissau**, la capitale de la Guinée-**Bissau**.
  Tom lives in **Bissau**, the capital of Guinea-Bissau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#11792107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11792107) [\#8754780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8754780))

- La Guinée-**Bissau** est l'un des pays les plus pauvres d'Afrique.
  Guinea-**Bissau** is one of Africa's poorest countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1045372)

- Guinée-**Bissau**, Liberia, Libye
  Guinea-**Bissau**, Liberia, Libya
  ([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 645153)

- La situation en Guinée-**Bissau**
  The situation in Guinea-**Bissau**
  ([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 26682550)

- J' en arrive ainsi au rapport sur la Guinée-**Bissau** de M. Cunha.
  This brings me to Mr Cunha's report on Guinea-**Bissau**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 142714)

## More sentences

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

- Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, la récente crise en Guinée-**Bissau** a déjà causé, d'après les dernières estimations, plusieurs centaines de morts et environ 400 000 personnes déplacées.
  Mr President, Commissioner, according to the latest calculations the recent crisis in GuineaBissau has left several hundred people dead and about 400 thousand homeless.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1876797)

- Deux ans après le coup d &apos; État, la situation économique et sociale de la Guinée-**Bissau** s &apos; est aggravée.
  Two years after the coup d &apos; etat, the economic and social conditions in the country have worsened.
  ([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 29579952)

- sur la Guinée-**Bissau** publiée le 2 septembre 1998
  European Union issued on 2 September 1998
  ([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 5412936)

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