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# homme — French to English

How French *homme* 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: homme (866 503), hommes (167 705). By style: everyday 2 773 · literary 704 · biblical 2 663 · parliamentary 40 524 · legal and administrative 8 994 · UN documents 978 550.

## human

Used about 488 263 times in the texts (literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 16 463 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 904 · UN documents ≈ 468 889). Meaning: [human in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/human/).

- Ces pléthores de toute la vitalité humaine concentrée dans une seule tête, le monde montant au cerveau d'un **homme**, cela serait mortel à la civilisation si cela durait.
  These plethoras of all **human** vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man,—this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7172)

- Les droits de l'**homme** ont été tout bonnement bafoués.
  **Human** rights are abused as a matter of course.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1200378)

- Coopération en matière de droits de l'**homme**
  Cooperation in **human** rights
  ([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 274672)

- D &apos; INTÉGRER LES DROITS DE L &apos; **HOMME**
  NEED TO MAINSTREAM **HUMAN** RIGHTS
  ([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 7279539)

- Le droit à la culture est un droit fondamental de l'**homme**.
  The right to culture is a fundamental **human** right.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 427525)

## men

Used about 353 520 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 184 · literary ≈ 323 · biblical ≈ 1 054 · parliamentary ≈ 11 397 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 185 · UN documents ≈ 336 377). Meaning: [men in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/men/).

- Qui sont ces **hommes** ?
  Who are those **men**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2892850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2892850) [\#6402456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6402456))

- Il n'y a plus d'**hommes**.
  There are no more **men**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2113)

- Des **hommes** pieux ensevelirent Étienne, et le pleurèrent à grand bruit.
  Devout **men** buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 8:2)

- Cela fait une différence avec les **hommes**.
  That is the difference between women and **men**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1886026)

- pour **hommes** ou garçonnets
  **Men**'s or boys'
  ([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 4375022)

## women

Used about 41 617 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 844 · UN documents ≈ 40 773).

- Il y a des femmes et des **hommes** d'État qui vont essayer de trouver la meilleure solution.
  There are statesmen and **women** who are going to try to find the best solution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1116501)

- b) Promouvoir et encourager la parité entre **hommes** et femmes aux postes de direction des associations de producteurs ruraux.
  (b) Support and encourage the equal participation of rural **women** in the leadership of rural producer associations.
  ([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 7661009)

- En d'autres termes, les femmes sont reléguées à leur rôle traditionnellement subordonné de propriété de l'**homme**.
  In other words, **women** are reverting to their traditional subordinate role of being the property of the male.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 410532)

- Les adolescentes de 15 à 19 ans sont cinq fois plus susceptibles d &apos; être infectées par comparaison aux **hommes** du même groupe d &apos; âge.
  Young **women** aged 15 to 19 are 5 times more likely to be infected compared to males in the same age group.
  ([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 15066613)

- b) Apprécier à sa juste valeur et favoriser la promotion de la femme et de ses capacités, car dans la pratique on préfère encore les dirigeants **hommes** aux femmes;
  (b) Value and promote **women** &apos; s leadership development and capacity-building, bearing in mind that, at present, male leaders are given priority over female leaders;
  ([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 29667143)

## rights

Used about 422 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 422).

- Il s'agirait d'un exercice utile : il y a, de toute évidence, un problème de conscience des droits de l'**homme**.
  This would be a valuable exercise: there is clearly a problem of awareness of people's **rights**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 23077)

## More sentences

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

- Des masses insensées croient que Mandela était un **homme** modeste.
  The dumb masses believe that Mandela was a decent man.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and corvard · checked, community translation · [\#2926585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2926585) [\#3297901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3297901))

- L'**homme** a continué à parler pendant une heure.
  The man kept talking for an hour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#45339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45339) [\#11179479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11179479))

- L'**homme** est le chasseur, la femme son gibier.
  Man is the hunter, woman is his game.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#276889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276889) [\#939153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/939153))

## 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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