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# garçons — French to English

How French *garçons* 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: garçons (28 734). By style: everyday 275 · literary 7 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 169 · legal and administrative 118 · UN documents 28 162.

## boys

Used about 19 871 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 246 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 148 · legal and administrative ≈ 113 · UN documents ≈ 19 361).

- Vous êtes des jeunes **garçons**.
  You are young **boys**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#17635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17635) [\#381433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/381433))

- Les petits **garçons** le regardèrent interdits.
  The little **boys** stared at him in surprise.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20606)

- Ce sont en majorité des **garçons**, selon la Tchétchène.
  The majority of them were **boys**, claimed the Chechen woman.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 161220)

- Les femmes, les filles, les **garçons** et les hommes dans les États où une interdiction des mines terrestres est mise en place.
  Women, girls, **boys** and men in States where a landmine ban is put into place.
  ([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 5342086)

- Filles et **garçons** déplacés
  Internally displaced girls and **boys**
  ([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 13022222)

## school

Used about 1 760 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 760). Meaning: [school in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/school/).

- À l &apos; échelon national, il n &apos; y a pas de disparité entre les **garçons** et les filles fréquentant l &apos; école primaire.
  At the national level, there is no disparity between male and female primary **school** attendance.
  ([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 16553473)

- Grâce à l &apos; enseignement primaire universel, tous les enfants, **garçons** ou filles, devraient pouvoir aller à l &apos; école.
  Primary education for all has helped least developed countries towards achieving parity for children going to primary **school**.
  ([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 23874353)

- Le Zimbabwe avait instauré la parité entre les sexes dans l &apos; enseignement primaire et il y avait 51 filles pour 49 **garçons** au niveau secondaire.
  Zimbabwe has achieved gender parity at primary-**school** level and a 51/49 proportion at the secondary-school level.
  ([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 24022340)

## age

Used about 1 181 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 · UN documents ≈ 1 173). Meaning: [age in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/age/).

- Que de fois, au lieu de muser avec des **garçons** de mon âge, je m'étais plu à épousseter ces graphites, ces anthracites, ces houilles, ces lignites, ces tourbes!
  Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own **age**, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lignites, and peats!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 65)

- Le Creutzfeld-Jakob atypique est une maladie terrifiante qui affecte des **garçons** ou des jeunes femmes d'une vingtaine d'années.
  Atypical Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a terrifying disease which affects young men or women of around twenty years of **age**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2025574)

- Selon l &apos; article 14 (âge minimum) du Code de la famille, il est de 18 ans pour les **garçons** et de 16 ans pour les filles.
  According to Art. 14 (minimum **age**) of the Family Code, the minimum age is 18 for males and 16 for females.
  ([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 24337048)

- A quel point les jeunes **garçons** sont sujets aux influences, à quel point ils ne sont pas mûrs, tous ceux qui en ont un à la maison le savent pertinemment.
  Anyone who has one in their family will know how easily influenced, how immature, young men of that **age** are.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1700407)

- Le taux d &apos; alphabétisation dans le territoire est d &apos; environ 98 % chez les **garçons** et de 99 % chez les filles de plus de 14 ans.
  The literacy rate in the Territory is approximately 98 per cent for males and 99 per cent for females over 14 years of **age**.
  ([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 25594244)

## girls

Used about 21 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 2).

- Les **garçons** doivent respecter les filles.
  Guys are supposed to respect **girls**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2210532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2210532) [\#10527902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10527902))

- Les rues de la ville seront remplies de jeunes **garçons** et de jeunes filles, jouant dans les rues.
  The streets of the city will be full of boys and **girls** playing in its streets.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 8:5)

- Les femmes, les filles, les **garçons** et les hommes dans les États parties où des mines antipersonnel conservées sont détruites.
  Women, **girls**, boy and men in States Parties where retained anti-personnel mines are destroyed.
  ([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 5342102)

- Les **garçons** sont supposés respecter les filles.
  Guys are supposed to respect **girls**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2210532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2210532) [\#2219662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2219662))

- Le groupe était composé de 6 jeunes filles et 4 **garçons**.
  The group was made up of six **girls** and four guys.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Christiane and WestofEden · checked, community translation · [\#2705341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2705341) [\#745617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/745617))

## More sentences

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

- Il est plus grand que les autres **garçons**.
  He is taller than any other boy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#301050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/301050) [\#139624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139624))

- Je sais que des tas de **garçons** veulent sortir avec toi.
  I know that plenty of guys want to go out with you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2033991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2033991) [\#2468032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2468032))

- Il monta de là à Béthel; et comme il cheminait à la montée, des petits **garçons** sortirent de la ville, et se moquèrent de lui. Ils lui disaient: Monte, chauve! Monte, chauve!
  He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 2:23)

## Grammar

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