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# côté — French to English

How French *côté* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: côté (41 079), côtée (2), côtées (2), côtés (11 821). By style: everyday 797 · literary 159 · biblical 405 · parliamentary 9 064 · legal and administrative 5 126 · UN documents 37 353.

## side

Used about 24 327 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 390 · literary ≈ 79 · biblical ≈ 177 · parliamentary ≈ 3 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 524 · UN documents ≈ 16 979). Forms: side, sides. Meaning: [side in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/side/).

- Reste à mes **côtés** !
  Rest by my **side**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6796827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6796827) [\#6330233](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6330233))

- Scie des deux **côtés**.
  Pressure on both **sides**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2761)

- La faim consume ses forces, La misère est à ses **côtés**.
  His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his **side**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 18:12)

- Donc, des deux **côtés**, c’est la même chose.
  It is therefore the same situation on both **sides**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 525770)

- Sur le cadre, **côté** gauche
  On the frame: left **side**
  ([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 5534765)

## both

Used about 572 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 187 · UN documents ≈ 377). Meaning: [both in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/both/).

- Regarde des deux **côtés** avant de traverser !
  Look **both** ways before crossing the road.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11935802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11935802) [\#7570890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7570890))

- C'est une évidence : le commerce ne nourrit pas, il ne rend pas riche - en tout cas pas toujours des deux **côtés**.
  It is abundantly clear that trade does not fill stomachs, and if anyone does get rich from it, it is seldom if ever **both** the parties concerned.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 418378)

- 7.6.1.7.2 Un ou deux sièges sont permis à **côté** du conducteur pour des personnes supplémentaires, dans ce cas les issues décrites au paragraphe 7.6.1.7.1 doivent être des portes.
  One or two seats are permitted alongside the driver for additional people, in which case **both** of the exits referred to in paragraph 7.6.1.7.1. shall be doors.
  ([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 11243420)

- Nous défendons avec fermeté l'application des droits de l'homme et nous déplorons tous les décès recensés, tant du **côté** marocain que du **côté** saharien.
  We strongly advocate the prevalence of human rights and regret all the deaths that have taken place, **both** Moroccan and Saharan.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1429705)

## More sentences

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

- Je mets mon argent de **côté** pour acheter une maison.
  I'm saving my money to buy a house.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10560074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10560074) [\#10560532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10560532))

- Ne crie pas quand je suis à **côté** de toi.
  Don't scream when I stand next to you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4431833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4431833) [\#11058296](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11058296))

- Il se tenait de son **côté**.
  He stood by himself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2846449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2846449) [\#4704570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4704570))

## Grammar

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