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# chez — French to English

How French *chez* 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: chez (67 673). By style: everyday 2 196 · literary 112 · biblical 302 · parliamentary 4 752 · legal and administrative 6 514 · UN documents 53 797.

## among

Used about 16 928 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 16 812). Meaning: [among in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/among/).

- Il est vrai qu'Homerus a mendié par les bourgades grecques, et que Nason mourut en exil **chez** les Moscovites.
  It is true that Homerus begged through the Greek towns, and that Naso died in exile **among** the Muscovites.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 813)

- Il avait choisi de nouveaux dieux: Alors la guerre était aux portes; On ne voyait ni bouclier ni lance **Chez** quarante milliers en Israël.
  They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen **among** forty thousand in Israel?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 5:8)

- Je suis particulièrement préoccupée par la persistance d'un taux de chômage très élevé, en particulier **chez** les jeunes, problème commun à de nombreux pays de la région.
  I am particularly concerned about the persistently high levels of unemployment, particularly **among** young people, a problem that is shared by many countries in the region.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1543768)

- Cette caractéristique est rare **chez** les habitants du Liban.
  This feature is rarely seen **among** people from Lebanon.
  ([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 16014820)

- Rien dans ce jardin ne contrariait l'effort sacré des choses vers la vie; la croissance vénérable était là **chez** elle.
  Nothing in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; venerable growth reigned there **among** them.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19237)

## home

Used about 5 367 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 373 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 136 · UN documents ≈ 2 242). Meaning: [home in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/home/).

- Tom est **chez** lui.
  Tom is at **home**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2273024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2273024) [\#3972064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3972064))

- Là, **chez** eux, que font-ils?
  There, at **home**, what do they do?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10989)

- David eut peur de Dieu en ce jour-là, et il dit: Comment ferais-je entrer **chez** moi l’arche de Dieu?
  David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark **home** to me?”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 13:12)

- Il m'a fallu 23 heures pour rentrer **chez** moi.
  It took me 23 hours to get **home**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 253720)

- Ces agissements ont terrorisé la population locale et dissuadé les villageois de rentrer **chez** eux.
  These actions terrorized the local population and deterred people from returning **home**.
  ([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 5107159)

## go

Used about 1 496 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 38 · parliamentary ≈ 198 · UN documents ≈ 1 121). Meaning: [go in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/go/).

- Je veux me rendre **chez** lui avec ma voiture.
  I want to **go** to his house using my car.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and cntrational · checked, community translation · [\#1121414](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121414) [\#1121446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121446))

- Comme ta mère n'en pouvait plus de fatigue et que moi j'étais occupé à la boutique, il allait **chez** le pharmacien chercher tes médicaments.
  When your mother was half-dead with fatigue and I had to attend to the shop, he would **go** to the chemist’s to fetch your medicine.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 892)

- Et lorsque tu le renverras libre de **chez** toi, tu ne le renverras point à vide;
  When you let him **go** free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 15:13)

- Mais ne rentrez pas **chez** vous pour dire aux pêcheurs d' Europe que c' est la Commission qui est à blâmer.
  But do not **go** back and tell the fishermen of Europe that it is the European Commission which is to be blamed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152626)

- La cocaïne, manifestement, est plus qu &apos; une passade **chez** les jeunes, c &apos; est un véritable choix.
  Cocaine is clearly not just a passing phase young people **go** through, but is a very definite choice.
  ([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 22502471)

## More sentences

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

- Tom me demande de venir **chez** lui ce soir.
  Tom asked me to come to his house tonight.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6243217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6243217) [\#8430926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8430926))

- Je passe la nuit **chez** mon amie.
  I'm staying over at my friend's place.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1611101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1611101) [\#1612491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1612491))

- Tous les week-ends, Tom va **chez** ses parents.
  Every weekend, Tom goes to his parents' house.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and verymuchso · checked, community translation · [\#7079655](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7079655) [\#7077688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7077688))

## 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/).

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