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# enfant — French to English

How French *enfant* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: enfant (262 946), enfante (16), enfantes (4), enfants (708 068). By style: everyday 3 225 · literary 281 · biblical 1 224 · parliamentary 16 673 · legal and administrative 11 011 · UN documents 938 620.

## child

Used about 829 473 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 318 · literary ≈ 252 · biblical ≈ 924 · parliamentary ≈ 15 298 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 093 · UN documents ≈ 800 588). Forms: child, children. Meaning: [child in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/child/).

- Je suis un **enfant**.
  I'm a **child**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3313490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3313490) [\#4473984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4473984))

- --Rends-moi mon **enfant**!
  “Give me back my **child**!”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8408)

- Ils égorgèrent les taureaux, et ils conduisirent l’**enfant** à Éli.
  They killed the bull, and brought the **child** to Eli.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 1:25)

- Un **enfant** est un **enfant**.
  A **child** is a child.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 443384)

- **Enfant** mentionné au point 6.2
  **Child** as indicated in point 6.2
  ([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 4983669)

## More sentences

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

- Je me sens comme un **enfant** à nouveau.
  I feel like a kid again.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5261824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5261824) [\#7067798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7067798))

- J'étais ta baby-sitter quand tu étais **enfant**.
  I was your babysitter when you were a kid.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5904833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5904833) [\#6716623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6716623))

- Tu n'es qu'un **enfant**.
  You're just a kid.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lulantis and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3331036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3331036) [\#3470424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3470424))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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