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# histoire — French to English

How French *histoire* 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: histoire (33 461), histoires (989). By style: everyday 1 101 · literary 45 · parliamentary 6 453 · legal and administrative 293 · UN documents 26 558.

## history

Used about 15 279 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · literary ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 2 756 · legal and administrative ≈ 217 · UN documents ≈ 12 172). Forms: histories, history. Meaning: [history in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/history/).

- Tu t'intéresses à l'**histoire** ?
  You're interested in **history**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11618529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11618529) [\#6620851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6620851))

- Il faut bien que nous le disions, puisque ceci est de l'**histoire**.
  We must needs tell, since this is a matter of **history**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24050)

- Cette année encore, l’**histoire** se répète.
  **History** is repeating itself again this year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541212)

- Maison de l’**histoire** européenne
  House of European **History**
  ([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 3772375)

- C &apos; est sur ceux-ci que l &apos; **histoire** nous jugera.
  **History** will judge us by them.
  ([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 14791551)

## story

Used about 12 737 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 872 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 151 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 · UN documents ≈ 9 683). Forms: stories, story. Meaning: [story in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/story/).

- L'**histoire** semble vraie.
  The **story** seems true.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alexmarcelo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2394484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2394484) [\#1573082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1573082))

- La voyageuse raconta son **histoire**, un peu modifiée:
  The traveller told her **story**, with slight modifications.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3357)

- Leurs **histoires** sont épouvantables.
  Their **stories** are horrific.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1435823)

- une poupée représentant un être humain, vêtue d’un costume rappelant l’**histoire** racontée dans le livre.
  a doll representing a human being, wearing an outfit corresponding to the **story** described in the book.
  ([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 1223013)

- A. **Histoires** présentant un intérêt humain
  A. Human interest **stories**
  ([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 28190466)

## More sentences

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

- Au cours de sa longue tirade, Poutine a affirmé que l'Ukraine était un accident de l'**histoire**.
  Over the course of his screed, Putin claimed that Ukraine is a historic accident.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#10782268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10782268) [\#10782278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10782278))

- Ils s'émerveillèrent devant les ruines chargées d'**histoire** du temple.
  They marveled at the storied ruins of the temple.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12607480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12607480) [\#12607481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12607481))

- Pourquoi en font-ils tous toute une **histoire**?
  Why's everybody acting like this is such a big deal?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7985492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7985492) [\#6536307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6536307))

## 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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