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# familles — French to English

How French *familles* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: familles (87 944). By style: everyday 48 · literary 4 · biblical 170 · parliamentary 3 400 · legal and administrative 1 033 · UN documents 83 289.

## families

Used about 80 609 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 166 · parliamentary ≈ 3 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 925 · UN documents ≈ 76 348). Forms: families, family.

- Ils ont des **familles**.
  They have a **family**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and captcrouton · checked, community translation · [\#6166064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6166064) [\#5317090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5317090))

- Casser le fil semble être l'instinct de certaines **familles** misérables.
  It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched **families** to break the thread.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12915)

- Fils de Joseph, selon leurs **familles**: Manassé et Éphraïm.
  The sons of Joseph after their **families**: Manasseh and Ephraim.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 26:28)

- Des **familles** en sortent détruites.
  **Families** are destroyed as a result.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052830)

- Pour la délimitation des **familles** de Sauria
  for delimitation of **families** within the Sauria
  ([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 4904703)

## victims

Used about 1 735 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 735).

- Sri Lanka condamne sans équivoque cet acte barbare, et nous présentons nos condoléances aux **familles** des victimes.
  Sri Lanka unequivocally condemns this barbaric act, and we offer our condolences to the **victims**.
  ([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 16557844)

## More sentences

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

- Les chefs de **familles** donnèrent au trésor de l’œuvre vingt mille dariques d’or et deux mille deux cents mines d’argent.
  Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:71)

- Ces **familles** doivent donc faire partie des groupes à prendre en considération lorsque nous préparerons les actions visant à combattre l'exclusion.
  Thus I would see them as one of the groups who will be very much in our minds as we prepare to take action against exclusion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887971)

- Ces emplois sont le gagne-pain de tant de **familles** vivant en milieu rural.
  These jobs provide a lifeline to so many people living in rural areas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 305205)

## 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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