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# employer — French to English

How French *employer* 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: employaient (944), employait (2 300), employer (23 469), employes (1), employez (32), employons (498), employé (16 819), employée (8 787), employées (13 147), employés (39 528). By style: everyday 270 · literary 13 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 3 194 · legal and administrative 6 632 · UN documents 95 402.

## employed

Used about 29 609 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 976 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 690 · UN documents ≈ 25 843). Forms: employed, employee, employees. Meaning: [employed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/employed/).

- Tom est notre **employé**.
  Tom is our **employee**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4498253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4498253) [\#13735182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13735182))

- Il avait dans sa jeunesse été **employé** dans les chiourmes du midi.
  During his youth he had been **employed** in the convict establishments of the South.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3749)

- En 2007, Qimonda **employait** 13 500 personnes.
  In 2007, Qimonda **employed** 13 500 people.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1223649)

-  **Employés** de l’entité
   **Employees** of the entity
  ([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 2965826)

- Population **employée**, par secteur, 2006
  **Employed** population by sector, 2006
  ([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 16962540)

## used

Used about 12 157 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 559 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 148 · UN documents ≈ 9 419). Meaning: [used in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/used/).

- J'ai **employé** mon imagination.
  I **used** my imagination.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#273982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273982) [\#1606298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1606298))

- --Un minimum bien **employé** suffit à tout.
  “A well-**used** minimum suffices for everything.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 162)

- Quarante jours s’écoulèrent ainsi, et furent **employés** à l’embaumer. Et les Égyptiens le pleurèrent soixante-dix jours.
  Forty days were **used** for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 50:3)

- Vous avez **employé** le mot "urgence".
  You **used** the word 'urgency'.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1172976)

- À **employer** uniquement comme:
  Only to be **used** as:
  ([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 2329761)

## workers

Used about 4 465 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 85 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 4 347).

- Les **employés** de bureau japonais travaillent très dur.
  Japanese office **workers** work very hard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#281352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281352) [\#799507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/799507))

- La directive est nécessaire car nous **employons** des travailleurs de pays tiers.
  The directive is necessary because we have third-country **workers**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1450981)

- En 2007, il **employait** 320 personnes, en comptant les sous-traitants, et réalisait un chiffre d’affaires annuel de 70 millions d’euros.
  In 2007, the shipyard's workforce totalled 320 **workers**, including subcontractors, and its annual turnover was EUR 70 million.
  ([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 2788372)

- a) Salaires versés aux **employés** contraints à l &apos; inactivité 375 — 376 101
  (a) Wages paid to redundant **workers** 375 - 376
  ([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 5421687)

- Cette entreprise autorise ses **employés** à travailler depuis chez eux.
  This company allows its **workers** to work from home.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3424477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3424477) [\#3430291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3430291))

## More sentences

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

- J'aimerais votre permission pour l'**employer**.
  I'd like your permission to use it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2016921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2016921) [\#2019709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2019709))

- De nos jours, peu de gens peuvent se permettre d'**employer** une bonne.
  Nowadays few people can afford to employ a maid.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and voxbubnya · checked, community translation · [\#242465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/242465) [\#8478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8478))

- Tu devrais **employer** du déodorant.
  You should use deodorant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1977557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1977557) [\#1977566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1977566))

## Grammar

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