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# elles — French to English

How French *elles* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: elles (438 622). By style: everyday 4 194 · literary 89 · biblical 459 · parliamentary 31 717 · legal and administrative 49 789 · UN documents 352 374.

## they

Used about 158 913 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 845 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 277 · parliamentary ≈ 16 519 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 745 · UN documents ≈ 117 458). Meaning: [they in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/they/).

- **Elles** se sont battues.
  **They** had a fight.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549270) [\#2931115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2931115))

- **Elles** sont du siècle.
  **They** are of the age.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2667)

- **Elles** furent un sujet d’amertume pour le cœur d’Isaac et de Rebecca.
  **They** grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 26:35)

- **Elles** ont duré tout le déjeuner de travail.
  **They** took up the whole working lunch.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 626483)

- **Elles** sont dénommées «unités» si le fonds est un trust.
  **They** are known as units if the fund is a trust.
  ([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 2573668)

## are

Used about 42 270 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 175 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 3 304 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 075 · UN documents ≈ 36 706).

- **Elles** sont toutes différentes.
  All of them **are** different.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5066370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5066370) [\#6380927](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380927))

- **Elles** sont généralement mauvaises, ces mers de la Chine, exposées à des coups de vent terribles, principalement pendant les équinoxes, et on était encore aux premiers jours de novembre.
  The Chinese seas **are** usually boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes; and it was now early November.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1630)

- C’est pourquoi ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Je lève ma main! Ce sont les nations qui vous entourent Qui porteront **elles**-mêmes leur ignominie.
  Therefore the Lord GOD says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that **are** around you will bear their shame.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 36:7)

- **Elles** sont doubles. **Elles** sont d'abord conjoncturelles.
  There **are** two, the first being the state of the economy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1630878)

- Les règles sont-**elles** mises à la disposition des citoyens?
  **Are** the rules publicly available to citizens?
  ([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 1685859)

## them

Used about 40 199 times in the texts (literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 86 · parliamentary ≈ 1 322 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 075 · UN documents ≈ 36 706). Meaning: [them in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/them/).

- C'était pour **elles** comme le chien.
  She was the same as a dog to **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 8653)

- Or, la loi ne procède pas de la foi; mais elle dit: Celui qui mettra ces choses en pratique vivra par **elles**.
  The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does **them** will live by them.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 3:12)

- La Commission est même reconnaissante pour ces suggestions et elle mettra tout en uvre pour qu'**elles** soient adoptées.
  The Commission is in fact grateful for these suggestions and will do all it can to get **them** adopted.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1860617)

- Ces citernes étant «nominalement vides», la quantité de matières dangereuses qu'**elles** contiennent réellement est, par définition, extrêmement faible.
  As the tanks are ‘nominally empty’, the amount of dangerous goods actually contained in **them** is by definition extremely small.
  ([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 545153)

- - 15,8 % d &apos; entre **elles** travaillent exclusivement ou principalement en dehors de leur ferme;
  15.8% of **them** worked exclusively or primarily outside their farms;
  ([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 11848560)

## also

Used about 24 109 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 075 · UN documents ≈ 22 023). Meaning: [also in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/also/).

- Pourtant, ne nous vantons pas trop haut, les révolutions, **elles** aussi, se trompent, et de graves méprises se sont vues.
  Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions **also** may be deceived, and grave errors have been seen.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18137)

- Il dit encore cette parabole, en vue de certaines personnes se persuadant qu’**elles** étaient justes, et ne faisant aucun cas des autres:
  He **also** spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:9)

- Lorsque d’autres informations contenues dans la fiche produit sont fournies, **elles** doivent respecter la forme et l’ordre indiqués à l’annexe II.
  Where other information contained in the product fiche is **also** provided, it shall be in the form and order specified in Annex II.
  ([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 2195205)

- **Elles** devraient également être intégrées aux plans de relance et aux mesures de soutien de la communauté internationale en faveur des pays en développement à faible revenu.
  This should **also** be incorporated into stimulus packages and international support to low-income developing countries.
  ([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 19817597)

- **Elles** estiment en outre que la compensation accordée par la Région n'était conforme ni au règlement (CEE) no 1191/69 ni au règlement (CE) no 1370/2007.
  The Italian authorities **also** considered that the compensation awarded by the Region neither complied with Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 nor with Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007.
  ([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 3878901)

## do

Used about 16 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 175 · parliamentary ≈ 1 322 · UN documents ≈ 14 682). Meaning: [do in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/do/).

- Les tortues ont-**elles** des dents ?
  **Do** turtles have teeth?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and apglopez · checked, community translation · [\#1356594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1356594) [\#977115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/977115))

- C'est difficile à comprendre, car depuis quand les routes s'arrêtent-**elles** aux frontières?
  This is difficult to understand, for when **do** roads ever stop at national borders?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1103073)

- telles qu &apos; **elles** ont été reçues. Les désignations utilisées
  The designations employed **do** not imply the expression
  ([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 3101046)

- Certaines d’entre celles-ci vous intéressent-**elles** ?
  **Do** any of these interest you?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5300493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5300493) [\#11450711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11450711))

- Je refuse que quiconque pense que les questions débattues ce matin en discussion commune ne sont pas, **elles** aussi, de la plus haute importance.
  I **do** not want anybody to think that the issues addressed in the joint debate this morning are not themselves of the utmost importance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 228727)

## More sentences

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

- **Elles** seraient plus pesantes que le sable de la mer; Voilà pourquoi mes paroles vont jusqu’à la folie!
  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 6:3)

- Il brisa les statues et abattit les idoles, et il remplit d’ossements d’hommes la place qu’**elles** occupaient.
  He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 23:14)

- Tu passeras les barres dans les anneaux sur les côtés de l’arche, pour qu’**elles** servent à porter l’arche;
  You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 25:14)

## 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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