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# guerre — French to English

How French *guerre* 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: guerre (103 581), guerres (7 981). By style: everyday 708 · literary 34 · biblical 207 · parliamentary 10 358 · legal and administrative 1 643 · UN documents 98 612.

## war

Used about 98 811 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 671 · literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 152 · parliamentary ≈ 9 711 · legal and administrative ≈ 936 · UN documents ≈ 87 313). Forms: war, wars. Meaning: [war in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/war/).

- Faites l'amour, pas la **guerre**.
  Make love, not **war**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#273278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273278) [\#128960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128960))

- Sur quoi roule la **guerre** de Troie?
  On what does the **war** of Troy turn?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29286)

- Il y eut toujours **guerre** entre Roboam et Jéroboam.
  There was **war** between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 14:30)

- Aussi réelle que la **guerre** en Irak.
  It is every bit as real as the Iraq **war**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 450190)

- des navires de **guerre** et des navires de transport de troupes,
  ships of **war** and troop ships,
  ([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 4235618)

## civil

Used about 108 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108). Meaning: [civil in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/civil/).

- . - Monsieur le Président, l’Afrique est depuis trop longtemps déchirée par des **guerres** civiles, la faim, la mauvaise gestion économique et une corruption galopante.
  . – Mr President, Africa has for too long been torn by **civil** strife, hunger, economic mismanagement and blatant corruption.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 652036)

## More sentences

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

- Le Secrétaire d'État étasunien tente de négocier un cessez-le-feu entre les factions en **guerre**.
  The U.S. Secretary of State is trying to broker a ceasefire between the warring parties.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3392367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3392367) [\#3422718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3422718))

- Le Hezbollah a gagné la **guerre** au Liban du Sud.
  Hezbollah prevailed in southern Lebanon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10805634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10805634) [\#12101560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12101560))

- Aucun doute. C'est un va-t-en **guerre**.
  No doubt. He's a warmonger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#790473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/790473) [\#790478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/790478))

## 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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