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# contacts — French to English

How French *contacts* 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: contacts (29 750). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 2 099 · legal and administrative 2 095 · UN documents 25 549.

## contacts

Used about 22 175 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 880 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 659 · UN documents ≈ 18 629). Forms: contact, contacts.

- J'ai des **contacts** à la Maison Blanche.
  I have **contacts** in the White House.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Mofli · checked, community translation · [\#1056338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1056338) [\#11882803](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11882803))

- Chaque individu a toutefois besoin de proximité humaine et de **contacts**.
  And yet everyone needs human **contact** and interaction.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 191388)

- Article 29 **Contacts** avec les États membres
  Article 29 **Contacts** with Member States
  ([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 1381595)

- **Contacts** avec la société civile
  **Contacts** with civil society
  ([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 16935118)

- Elle a peu de **contacts** avec le père des enfants.
  She has little **contact** with the children's father.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1767311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1767311) [\#1778527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1778527))

## close

Used about 663 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 131 · UN documents ≈ 532). Meaning: [close in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/close/).

- Sur le terrain, des **contacts** étroits sont maintenus avec les chefs des délégations de l'Union et les chefs de mission des États membres.
  In the field, **close** liaison shall be maintained with the Heads of the Union delegations and Member States’ Heads of Mission.
  ([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 1985076)

- Le Gouvernement devrait entretenir avec elles des **contacts** étroits pour que les décisions prises sur des questions connexes répondent aux intérêts du public comme aux objectifs nationaux de développement.
  The Government should establish **close** links with these institutions to ensure that science and technology decisions on related issues reflect the best interests of the public and national development goals.
  ([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 12118837)

- Sur le terrain, des **contacts** étroits sont maintenus avec les chefs des délégations de l’Union et les chefs de mission des États membres.
  In the field, **close** liaison shall be maintained with the Heads of the Union delegations and Member States’ Heads of Mission.
  ([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 2511942)

- Sur le terrain, des **contacts** étroits sont maintenus avec les chefs concernés des missions des États membres et des délégations de l'Union.
  In the field, **close** liaison shall be maintained with the relevant Heads of Member State's missions and of the Union delegations.
  ([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 4149705)

## More sentences

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

- Les considérations et les préoccupations que vous avez fait valoir lors de ces **contacts** rejoignent très largement celles de la Commission.
  The considerations and concerns that you have voiced during these meetings are very similar to those of the Commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 250370)

- Nous serions très reconnaissants envers la présidence de bien vouloir nous tenir au courant des **contacts** qui ont été pris et des résultats qu'ils ont apportés.
  We would be grateful if the House could be informed as to what sort of talks have taken place and what results these have produced.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1813559)

- Dès le départ, les **contacts** avec les autres groupes m'ont permis de préciser que cette résolution n'entendait nullement raviver les tensions entre les civilisations.
  From the outset, having to liaise with other groups has allowed me to clarify that this resolution in no way intends to rekindle conflict between civilisations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 998822)

## Grammar

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