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# garde — French to English

How French *garde* 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: garde (55 545), gardes (7 002). By style: everyday 441 · literary 62 · biblical 296 · parliamentary 3 350 · legal and administrative 3 421 · UN documents 54 977.

## guard

Used about 23 105 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 117 · literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 89 · parliamentary ≈ 1 082 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 316 · UN documents ≈ 19 471). Forms: guard, guards. Meaning: [guard in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/guard/).

- Il n'y a aucun **garde**.
  There's no **guard**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3360533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3360533) [\#3648734](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3648734))

- Un corps de **garde** est là tout près.
  A **guard** house is situated close at hand.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27763)

- Les **gardes** tremblèrent de peur, et devinrent comme morts.
  For fear of him, the **guards** shook, and became like dead men.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 28:4)

- Deuxième objectif : la formation des **gardes**-frontières.
  The second objective is the training of border **guards**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 407260)

- Soi-disant “**Garde** de Lougansk”
  So called “Lugansk **Guard**”
  ([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 4529031)

## border

Used about 3 583 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 140 · UN documents ≈ 3 436). Meaning: [border in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/border/).

- Je sais que Tom a été un **garde**-frontière.
  I know that Tom used to be a **border** patrol agent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7508515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7508515) [\#11904362](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11904362))

- Donne cet ordre au peuple: Vous allez passer à la frontière de vos frères, les enfants d’Ésaü, qui habitent en Séir. Ils vous craindront; mais soyez bien sur vos **gardes**.
  Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the **border** of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 2:4)

- Le Bureau d'appui, une fois établi, y contribuera aussi, en préparant des manuels à l'usage des **gardes** frontières.
  Once established, the support office will contribute to this by preparing manuals for **border** officials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1218939)

- La liaison a aussi été maintenue avec les **gardes** frontière russes.
  Liaison was also maintained with the Russian **border** forces.
  ([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 2136407)

- Ils ont récemment procédé au déplacement très progressif de la frontière dans la forêt de Snežniški et leurs **gardes** forestiers ont commencé à abattre des arbres.
  Recently they have very slowly moved the **border** in the Snežniški Woods and their foresters have started felling trees.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1003906)

## More sentences

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

- Nous allons essayer de vous obtenir la **garde** complète.
  We're going to try to get you full custody.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3729763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3729763) [\#4164816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4164816))

- Tom voulait que Marie **garde** ses enfants.
  Tom wanted Mary to take care of his kids.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wakano and bretsky · checked, community translation · [\#5940029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5940029) [\#1906946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1906946))

- Le parti communiste est l'avant-**garde** de la classe ouvrière.
  The Communist Party is the vanguard of the working class.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#428061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/428061) [\#429488](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429488))

## 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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