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# ivoire — French to English

How French *ivoire* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: ivoire (43 796), ivoires (3). By style: everyday 8 · literary 3 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 624 · legal and administrative 1 260 · UN documents 41 894.

## ivoire

Used about 40 322 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 893 · UN documents ≈ 39 430).

- Côte d'**Ivoire**, Guinée
  Côte d'**Ivoire**, Guinea
  ([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 5012550)

- Cote d &apos; **Ivoire**
  Côte d &apos; **Ivoire**
  ([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 19580656)

- Abidjan (Côte d'**Ivoire**)
  Abidjan (Côte d’**Ivoire**)
  ([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 3771959)

- Côte d &apos; **Ivoire**
  Côte d &apos; **Ivoire**
  ([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 28826144)

- Côte d’**Ivoire**, Guinée, Togo
  Côte d'**Ivoire**, Guinea, Togo
  ([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 2187947)

## ivory

Used about 2 252 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 368 · UN documents ≈ 1 643). Meaning: [ivory in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ivory/).

- Les défenses d'éléphant sont en **ivoire**.
  Elephant tusks are made out of **ivory**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2982275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2982275) [\#8862002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8862002))

- Il revoyait encore ce genou d'**ivoire** resté seul en dehors de l'horrible appareil de Torterue.
  Again he beheld that **ivory** knee which alone remained outside of Torterue’s horrible apparatus.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6396)

- Le roi fit un grand trône d’**ivoire**, et le couvrit d’or pur.
  Moreover the king made a great throne of **ivory**, and overlaid it with pure gold.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 9:17)

- Les pays les plus concernés sont la Côte d'**Ivoire**, le Ghana et le Cameroun.
  The most affected countries would be the **Ivory** Coast, Ghana and the Cameroons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1765085)

- **Ivoire**; poudre et déchets d'**ivoire**
  **Ivory**; ivory powder and waste
  ([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 4387192)

## côte

Used about 377 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 377).

- Situation en Côte d'**Ivoire**
  Situation in **Côte** d'Ivoire
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1540930)

- Situation en Côte d'**Ivoire** (débat)
  Situation in **Côte** d'Ivoire (debate)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1463623)

- La Côte d'**Ivoire** doit en être consciente.
  **Côte** d'Ivoire must be made aware of this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1463734)

- Armée française, hors de la Côte-d'**Ivoire** !
  Get the French army out of **Côte** d'Ivoire!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 399908)

- L’Union européenne n’a rien � faire en Côte d’**Ivoire**.
  The European Union has no business in **Côte** d'Ivoire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 538482)

## More sentences

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

- C'est l'expression la plus aboutie de la démocratie, qui montre que le Parlement européen n'est pas dans une tour d'**ivoire**.
  That is democracy at its best and it shows that the European Parliament is not remote from its people.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1519174)

- Ensemble, ces pays veulent récolter environ 50 tonnes d'**ivoire**.
  We urge the Commission and Member States not to go along with this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 29435)

- Selon certains renseignements, les **ivoires** de Begram auraient été mis en vente pour un montant de 200 000 livres sterling.
  It has been reported that the Begram ivories were offered for sale for 200,000 pounds sterling.
  ([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 716743)

## Grammar

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