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# frontière — French to English

How French *frontière* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: frontière (42 865), frontières (63 093). By style: everyday 97 · literary 2 · biblical 54 · parliamentary 11 942 · legal and administrative 10 706 · UN documents 83 157.

## borders

Used about 82 447 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 82 · biblical ≈ 52 · parliamentary ≈ 9 205 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 141 · UN documents ≈ 64 966). Forms: border, borders.

- Au diable les **frontières** !
  To hell with **borders**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#8238041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8238041) [\#8236959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8236959))

- Tu passeras aujourd’hui la **frontière** de Moab, à Ar,
  “You are to pass over Ar, the **border** of Moab, today.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 2:18)

- En résumé, cette proposition va tout simplement une **frontière** trop loin.
  In summary, this proposal is simply a **border** too far.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1569577)

- CFS: Code **frontières** Schengen
  SBC: Schengen **Borders** Code
  ([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 4227073)

- Médecins sans **frontières** (États-Unis)
  Doctors without **Borders** (USA)
  ([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 1254823)

## frontier

Used about 5 454 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 622 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 230 · UN documents ≈ 2 599). Meaning: [frontier in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/frontier/).

- Nous avons passé la **frontière** hier.
  We crossed the **frontier** yesterday.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by THURET and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#1940448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1940448) [\#3660338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3660338))

- Cette existence claustrale si austère et si morne, dont nous venons d'indiquer quelques linéaments, ce n'est pas la vie, car ce n'est pas la liberté; ce n'est pas la tombe, car ce n'est pas la plénitude; c'est le lieu étrange d'où l'on aperçoit, comme de la crête d'une haute montagne, d'un côté l'abîme où nous sommes, de l'autre l'abîme où nous serons; c'est une **frontière** étroite et brumeuse séparant deux mondes, éclairée et obscurcie par les deux à la fois, où le rayon affaibli de la vie se mêle au rayon vague de la mort; c'est la pénombre du tombeau.
  This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it is the narrow and misty **frontier** separating two worlds, illuminated and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half obscurity of the tomb.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11162)

- Il suffit de songer, par exemple, à la question de la **frontière** extérieure commune.
  It will suffice to consider the example of our shared external **frontier**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 252221)

- des prix d'offre franco **frontière** de la Communauté.
  free-at-Community-**frontier** offer prices.
  ([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 758095)

- F. Économie et commerce des services: la nouvelle **frontière**
  F. Services economy and trade - the new **frontier**
  ([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 17812716)

## crossing

Used about 866 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 866). Meaning: [crossing in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/crossing/).

- Le 27 juillet, quand des manifestants serbes se sont rassemblés au point de passage, quelques personnes ont mis le feu au poste **frontière** 1.
  On 27 July, while Serb demonstrators gathered at the **crossing** point, some individuals set fire to the Customs facilities at Gate 1.
  ([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 25080700)

## external

Used about 124 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 124). Meaning: [external in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/external/).

- Assurer l'intégrité territoriale et la protection des **frontières** extérieures permettra de donner une impulsion à la PESC et d'approfondir les principes de coopération dans ce domaine.
  The guarantee of territorial integrity and the protection of **external** frontiers, will give impetus to the CFSP and promote the principles of cooperation in that context.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1664921)

## More sentences

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

- Ça brouille la **frontière** entre l'information et la publicité.
  This blurs the line between news and advertising.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1820254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1820254) [\#1820470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1820470))

- La **frontière** qui sépare le génie de la folie est ténue.
  There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1898169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1898169) [\#12268678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12268678))

- La mort n'est qu'un horizon. Et un horizon n'est qu'une **frontière** de notre champ de vision.
  Death is only a horizon. And a horizon is just the edge of our field of view.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Gulliver · checked, community translation · [\#2318135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2318135) [\#1114529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1114529))

## 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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