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# jeunesse — French to English

How French *jeunesse* 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: jeunesse (37 814), jeunesses (96). By style: everyday 132 · literary 16 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 2 223 · legal and administrative 916 · UN documents 34 571.

## youth

Used about 26 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 48 · parliamentary ≈ 1 620 · legal and administrative ≈ 878 · UN documents ≈ 24 128). Meaning: [youth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/youth/).

- Il faut que **jeunesse** se passe.
  **Youth** must have its fling.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#391932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391932) [\#391931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391931))

- --C'est que dans ma **jeunesse** j'ai été laquais dans sa famille.
  He replied, “It is because I was a servant in his family in my **youth**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3711)

- Il est bon pour l’homme De porter le joug dans sa **jeunesse**.
  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his **youth**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:27)

- Nous ne pouvons sacrifier notre **jeunesse**, les mots ne suffisent pas en la matière.
  We cannot sacrifice our **youth**; words are not enough in this regard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1560533)

- Éducation, formation et **jeunesse**
  Education, training and **youth**
  ([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 87053)

## young

Used about 3 666 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 · UN documents ≈ 3 241). Meaning: [young in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/young/).

- Il a appris le français dans sa **jeunesse**.
  He acquired French when he was **young**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and CK · checked, community translation · [\#299124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/299124) [\#132525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132525))

- Le galopin d'à côté qui a une barbiche, je le voyais passer tous les matins avec une **jeunesse** en bonnet rose sous le bras, aujourd'hui je l'ai vu passer, il donnait le bras à un fusil.
  The errand-boy next door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a **young** person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and he had a gun on his arm.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23310)

- Moab est ravagé, ses villes montent en fumée, L’élite de sa **jeunesse** est égorgée, Dit le roi, dont l’Éternel des armées est le nom.
  Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen **young** men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 48:15)

- En un mot, notre **jeunesse** occupera le devant de la scène.
  In other words, our **young** people will take centre stage.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 404868)

- Dmitri Dashkevich et Eduard Lobov, militants du Front de la **jeunesse** (Molodoi Front), ont été condamnés à plusieurs années d’emprisonnement pour «hooliganisme».
  Dmitri Dashkevich and Eduard Lobov, activists of the Molodoi Front (**Young** Front), were sentenced to several years of imprisonment for ‘hooliganism’.
  ([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 2281283)

## More sentences

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

- Ça ma rappelle ma **jeunesse**.
  That reminds me of my childhood.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11615941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11615941) [\#5844510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5844510))

- Est-ce que ta mère jouait du piano dans sa **jeunesse** ?
  Did your mother use to play the piano when she was younger?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6944100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6944100) [\#6945598](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6945598))

- C'était une beauté dans sa **jeunesse**.
  She was a beauty in her day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#314843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314843) [\#134447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134447))

## 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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