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# culture — French to English

How French *culture* 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: culture (109 754), cultures (36 219). By style: everyday 153 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 11 004 · legal and administrative 11 398 · UN documents 123 414.

## culture

Used about 92 125 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 117 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 336 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 681 · UN documents ≈ 80 990). Forms: cultural, culture, cultures. Meaning: [culture in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/culture/).

- Ils ont leur **culture**.
  They have their own **culture**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1869284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1869284) [\#1200918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1200918))

- Pour s'en retourner, il prit par la rue Saint-Louis, la rue **Culture**-Sainte-Catherine et les Blancs-Manteaux; c'était un peu le plus long, mais c'était le chemin par où, depuis trois mois, pour éviter les encombrements et les boues de la rue Vieille-du-Temple, il avait coutume de venir tous les jours de la rue de l'Homme-Armé à la rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, avec Cosette.
  In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue **Culture**-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de l’Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29968)

- La **culture** rurale européenne existe et doit donc perdurer.
  Rural European **culture** exists and must therefore survive.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1746991)

- c. **cultures** de cellules.
  c. **Cultures** of cells.
  ([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 3188955)

- de l’ordre du jour (**Culture** de paix)
  de l’ordre du jour (**Culture** de paix)
  ([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 6474292)

## crops

Used about 26 702 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 2 522 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 868 · UN documents ≈ 19 283). Forms: crop, crops.

- Les **cultures** ont besoin de pluie.
  The **crops** need rain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#714315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/714315) [\#5955764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5955764))

- Je voudrais également savoir quelles **cultures** sont faites sur les terres gelées.
  I should also like to know what **crops** are being grown on set-aside land.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1745791)

- **Cultures** permanentes non définies
  Permanent **crops** not defined
  ([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 3083037)

- d) 0,5 % dans la **culture** destinée à la production de plants certifiés.
  (d) In **crop** for production of Certified category seed, 0.5 per cent.
  ([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 28051357)

- Cela va endommager les **cultures**.
  It will damage the **crops**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Lumi\_alt · checked, community translation · [\#241473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241473) [\#11471381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11471381))

## cultivation

Used about 10 641 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 573 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 069 · UN documents ≈ 8 999). Meaning: [cultivation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cultivation/).

- Chers collègues, ce sont en réalité nos modes de **culture** que nous devons changer.
  Ladies and gentlemen, it is in reality our **cultivation** methods that we must change.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 817769)

- Surface dédiée à la **culture** de canne à sucre (ha)
  Sugarcane **cultivation** area (ha)
  ([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 5116105)

- Idées reçues et idées fausses sur la **culture** itinérante
  Myths and misinformation surrounding shifting **cultivation**
  ([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 26248567)

- En comparaison avec ce que la Communauté dépense en sept ans pour subventionner la **culture** du tabac, ce montant est infime.
  Compared to what the Community spends in seven years on subsidising the **cultivation** of tobacco, this amount is still vanishingly small.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 790388)

- La demande ne porte pas sur la **culture**.
  The scope of the application does not include **cultivation**.
  ([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 4222818)

## More sentences

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

- L'objet de la **culture** hippie est d'éviter de se conformer aux normes sociales.
  The point of hipster subculture is to avoid conforming to societal norms.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and FlamingTofu · checked, community translation · [\#1989332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1989332) [\#1989462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1989462))

- Tout est politique, même la **culture** des radis.
  Everything is political, including growing radishes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#883087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/883087) [\#873310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/873310))

- L'orge est la principale **culture** de notre pays.
  Barley is our country's main product.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7591651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7591651) [\#7668329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7668329))

## 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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