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# jeunes — French to English

How French *jeunes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 8 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: jeunes (168 597). By style: everyday 343 · literary 41 · biblical 109 · parliamentary 9 677 · legal and administrative 3 834 · UN documents 154 593.

## young

Used about 91 157 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 322 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 7 661 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 556 · UN documents ≈ 80 517). Meaning: [young in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/young/).

- Vous êtes trop **jeunes**.
  You're too **young**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by voxbubnya and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2218461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2218461) [\#6888396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6888396))

- Les quatre **jeunes** filles se regardèrent.
  The four **young** women looked at each other.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3231)

- **Jeunes** hommes et **jeunes** filles, Vieillards et enfants!
  both **young** men and maidens, old men and children.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 148:12)

- La pression sur les **jeunes** et les familles augmente.
  The pressure is increasing upon **young** people and families.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 443163)

- **jeunes** coqs: 90 jours ou plus,
  **young** cocks: 90 days or later,
  ([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 1557583)

## youth

Used about 52 413 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 403 · legal and administrative ≈ 479 · UN documents ≈ 51 531). Meaning: [youth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/youth/).

- Le taux de chômage des **jeunes** Européens atteint les 21 %.
  **Youth** unemployment within the EU has reached a high of 21%.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1561644)

- une campagne au profit des **jeunes** en 2000 («Jugend 2000») \[44\],
  The campaign **Youth** 2000 (Jugend 2000) \[44\]
  ([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 3858066)

- J. Participation pleine et effective des **jeunes** à la
  J. Full and effective participation of **youth** in the life of
  ([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 1893016)

- Les problèmes des programmes destinés aux **jeunes** viennent souvent de ce que l'on essaie, par les différents sous-programmes, de toucher le plus grand groupe cible possible.
  The problems of **youth** programmes often originate in the fact that there is an attempt to reach as large a target group as possible with different sector programmes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2023801)

- Activités de réinsertion des délinquants juvéniles et des **jeunes** en institution placés sous surveillance à la suite d’un arrêt judiciaire rendu au civil
  Reintegration activities for juvenile offenders and **youth** in institutions placed under supervision based on a court judgment under civil law
  ([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 5036255)

## girls

Used about 9 686 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 9 662).

- Le groupe était composé de 6 **jeunes** filles et 4 garçons.
  The group was made up of six **girls** and four guys.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Christiane and WestofEden · checked, community translation · [\#2705341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2705341) [\#745617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/745617))

- --Vraiment? dirent les **jeunes** filles, tout ébahies.
  “Truly?” said the young **girls**, quite taken aback.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 333)

- Les rues de la ville seront remplies de **jeunes** garçons et de **jeunes** filles, jouant dans les rues.
  The streets of the city will be full of boys and **girls** playing in its streets.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 8:5)

- c) Habilitation des femmes du peuple autochtones et des **jeunes** femmes.
  (c) Empowering indigenous women and **girls** at the grass-roots level.
  ([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 17210149)

- Et la foule de rire, surtout les enfants et les **jeunes** filles.
  And the crowd burst into a laugh, especially the boys and young **girls**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3444)

## people

Used about 3 422 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 202 · UN documents ≈ 3 221). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- Le rapporteur a déclaré que des personnes de plus en plus **jeunes** souffraient de plusieurs nouvelles formes de tumeurs.
  The rapporteur said that younger and younger **people** are suffering from various new forms of tumours.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 523669)

- La mortalité a baissé également pour les autres groupes d &apos; âge, mais davantage pour les plus de 40 ans que pour les groupes plus **jeunes**.
  However, mortality declined in all age groups, even more among **people** 40 and over than among younger people.
  ([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 7984140)

## women

Used about 204 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 202).

- les femmes âgées comme des mères, celles qui sont **jeunes** comme des sœurs, en toute pureté.
  the elder **women** as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:2)

- Le pourcentage de **jeunes** femmes dans l'enseignement supérieur est en augmentation constante, et il était déjà de 51 % dans les années 1990.
  The percentage of **women** students is constantly on the rise, and by the 1990s it was already 51%.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1081909)

## children

Used about 84 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 80).

- Je leur donnerai des **jeunes** gens pour chefs, Et des enfants domineront sur eux.
  I will give boys to be their princes, and **children** shall rule over them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 3:4)

- Code (J): les vélos de **jeunes** (BMX) et les bicyclettes pour enfant (24″ ou moins),
  code (J): Junior action (BMX) and **children**'s bicycles (24″ and below)
  ([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 5003519)

- Je veux donc que les **jeunes** se marient, qu’elles aient des enfants, qu’elles dirigent leur maison, qu’elles ne donnent à l’adversaire aucune occasion de médire;
  I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear **children**, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:14)

## men

Used about 12 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 5). Meaning: [men in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/men/).

- Que les hommes sont bêtes dans leurs **jeunes** années.
  What fools **men** are in their salad days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#632045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/632045) [\#10714096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10714096))

- Exhorte de même les **jeunes** gens à être modérés,
  Likewise, exhort the younger **men** to be sober minded.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 2:6)

- Ne réprimande pas rudement le vieillard, mais exhorte-le comme un père; exhorte les **jeunes** gens comme des frères,
  Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger **men** as brothers;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:1)

## among

Used about 2 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2). Meaning: [among in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/among/).

- Comme un lis au milieu des épines, Telle est mon amie parmi les **jeunes** filles.
  As a lily **among** thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 2:2)

## More sentences

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

- Les invités plus âgés doivent toujours être servis en premier, puis les plus **jeunes**.
  The older guests must always be served first, and then the younger ones.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11677488](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11677488) [\#9698069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9698069))

- Tes parfums ont une odeur suave; Ton nom est un parfum qui se répand; C’est pourquoi les **jeunes** filles t’aiment.
  Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 1:3)

- Et aussitôt Abigaïl partit, montée sur un âne, et accompagnée de cinq **jeunes** filles; elle suivit les messagers de David, et elle devint sa femme.
  Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 25:42)

## 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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