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# enfants — French to English

How French *enfants* 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: enfants (708 068). By style: everyday 2 203 · literary 89 · biblical 1 049 · parliamentary 14 379 · legal and administrative 8 374 · UN documents 681 974.

## children

Used about 649 247 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 606 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 962 · parliamentary ≈ 13 780 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 676 · UN documents ≈ 625 143). Forms: child, children.

- Tu as deux **enfants**.
  You've got two **children**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#11543998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11543998) [\#11544021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11544021))

- --En a-t-il eu des **enfants**?
  “Had they any **children**?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 205)

- **Enfants**, obéissez à vos parents, selon le Seigneur, car cela est juste.
  **Children**, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:1)

- Je n’ai en réalité pas reçu d’autres plaintes ayant trait aux **enfants**.
  I have not in fact received any other complaints relating to **children**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735687)

- 1,2 g/jour pour les **enfants** en bas âge
  1,2 g/day for young **children**
  ([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 3807771)

## More sentences

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

- Combien d'**enfants** avez-vous ?
  How many kids do you have?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#245942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245942) [\#139307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139307))

- Mes **enfants** aiment les animaux.
  My kids love animals.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6004372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6004372) [\#6003542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6003542))

- Des trois **enfants**, c'est le plus jeune le plus attirant.
  Of the three boys, the youngest is the most attractive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sbgodin and CM · checked, community translation · [\#72681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72681) [\#10068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10068))

## 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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