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# chômage — French to English

How French *chômage* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: chômage (42 878), chômages (15). By style: everyday 47 · literary 1 · parliamentary 7 010 · legal and administrative 1 470 · UN documents 34 365.

## unemployment

Used about 39 321 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · parliamentary ≈ 6 295 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 439 · UN documents ≈ 31 548). Forms: unemployed, unemployment. Meaning: [unemployment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/unemployment/).

- Le **chômage** est très faible.
  **Unemployment** is very low.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and The\_World\_Factbook · checked, community translation · [\#8904481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8904481) [\#8905024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8905024))

- La préoccupation principale, c'est le **chômage**.
  The main concern is **unemployment**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1724375)

- Revenu issu des indemnités de **chômage**
  Income from **unemployment** allowances
  ([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 5152631)

- i) Prestations d &apos; assurance **chômage**
  (i) **Unemployment** insurance benefits
  ([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 5015203)

- Je sais que Tom est au **chômage**.
  I know Tom is **unemployed**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6838594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6838594) [\#6839395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6839395))

## cent

Used about 563 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 563). Meaning: [cent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cent/).

- Le **chômage** est resté à environ 9 % pendant la plus grande partie des années 2003 et 2004, après quoi s &apos; est amorcée une phase de déclin lent et continu.
  It had remained at about 9 per **cent** for most of 2003 and 2004 before beginning a slow continual decline.
  ([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 18912267)

## employment

Used about 286 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 286). Meaning: [employment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/employment/).

- Ce n’est qu’alors qu’il sera aussi possible de concilier croissance et faible taux de **chômage** à long terme.
  Only thus will it be possible to balance growth and high **employment** in the long-term too.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 783223)

- De sommet en sommet, le Conseil européen n'a de cesse d'affirmer son engagement dans la lutte contre le **chômage**.
  From summit to summit, the European Council does not tire of declaring its great commitment to resolving this **employment** crisis.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1649824)

## rate

Used about 144 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 143). Meaning: [rate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/rate/).

- Le taux de **chômage** au Japon était de 3,4 pour cent en septembre 2015.
  The jobless **rate** in Japan was 3.4 percent in September 2015.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4702624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4702624) [\#6385377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6385377))

- Rien qu'en Allemagne, on compte encore plus de 3,8 millions de demandeurs d'emplois et les chiffres du **chômage** sont encore bien plus hauts.
  In Germany alone there are still over 3.8 million unemployed, and the employment **rate** is still markedly higher.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 65538)

## More sentences

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

- Il est au **chômage** depuis un mois.
  He's been out of work for a month.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Joseph · checked, community translation · [\#2658267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2658267) [\#12821250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12821250))

- La plupart des Israéliens ont reçu l'ordre de travailler à la maison ou ont été mis au **chômage** technique.
  Most Israelis were ordered to work at home, or put on furlough.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#8615102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8615102) [\#8848581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8848581))

- Les emplois sont difficiles à trouver avec tant de gens au **chômage**.
  Jobs are hard to come by with so many people out of work.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#54736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54736) [\#479454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/479454))

## Grammar

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