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# chose — French to English

How French *chose* 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: chose (34 319), choses (31 132). By style: everyday 6 619 · literary 328 · biblical 887 · parliamentary 31 587 · legal and administrative 503 · UN documents 25 527.

## things

Used about 18 512 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 378 · literary ≈ 188 · biblical ≈ 480 · parliamentary ≈ 9 871 · legal and administrative ≈ 73 · UN documents ≈ 4 520). Forms: thing, things.

- Je veux de nombreuses **choses**.
  I want many **things**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2011402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2011402) [\#2427360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2427360))

- --C'est la même **chose**.
  “It is the same **thing**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 809)

- Tu ne mangeras aucune **chose** abominable.
  You shall not eat any abominable **thing**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 14:3)

- Cette aide porte sur deux **choses**.
  This aid is directed at two **things**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 78031)

- Le tableau ci-dessus montre deux **choses**.
  The above table demonstrates two **things**.
  ([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 4903521)

## something

Used about 7 623 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 999 · literary ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 3 948 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 · UN documents ≈ 1 595).

- J'ai quelque **chose** à toi.
  I have **something** of yours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2062855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2062855) [\#2443391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2443391))

- --J'essayerai une **chose**.
  “I am going to try **something**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22323)

- Si un homme pousse son prochain par un mouvement de haine, ou s’il jette quelque **chose** sur lui avec préméditation, et que la mort en soit la suite,
  If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled **something** at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 35:20)

- Quelque **chose** doit céder.
  **Something** has to give.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1040225)

- SI TU NE COMPRENDS PAS QUELQUE **CHOSE** OU SI TU AS D’AUTRES QUESTIONS À POSER, DIS-LE LEUR!
  IF THERE IS **SOMETHING** THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, OR YOU HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK THEM!
  ([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 3251406)

## More sentences

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

- On n'a pas fait grand-**chose** hier.
  We didn't do much yesterday.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4890446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4890446) [\#9077950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9077950))

- Dan a nié avoir quelque **chose** à voir avec Linda.
  Dan denied having anything to do with Linda.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#3991236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991236) [\#3991810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991810))

- Les gens changent. Il n'y a pas grand-**chose** à y faire.
  People change. There's not much you can do about it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and FlamingTofu · checked, community translation · [\#1987988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1987988) [\#1988315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1988315))

## Grammar

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