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# lanka — French to English

How French *lanka* 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: lanka (35 038), lankae (2), lankas (1). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 459 · legal and administrative 671 · UN documents 33 910.

## sri

Used about 32 600 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 19 · UN documents ≈ 32 580).

- Je viens du Sri **Lanka**.
  I'm from **Sri** Lanka.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kala and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#12704567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12704567) [\#2136888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2136888))

- Cet argent est dépensé dans le but de mener une guerre que ni le gouvernement du Sri **Lanka**, ni les Tamouls ne peuvent gagner.
  This money is spent fighting a war that the **Sri** Lankan government cannot win and it is a war that the Tamils cannot win either.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 31309)

- Bamboo Processing for Sri **Lanka**
  Bamboo Processing for **Sri** Lanka
  ([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 28275641)

- Nous en savons moins sur les hôpitaux et écoles détruits, ainsi que sur la torture employée par les troupes gouvernementales du Sri **Lanka**.
  We have heard less about the hospitals and schools being destroyed and of torture by **Sri** Lankan government troops.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 31319)

- Ratification : Sri **Lanka** (13 octobre 1999\*)
  Ratification: **Sri** Lanka (13 October 1999)\*
  ([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 6490476)

## lanka

Used about 1 092 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 421 · legal and administrative ≈ 671).

- Objet: Massacre au Sri **Lanka**
  Subject: Sri **Lanka** massacre
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1743240)

- PROCÉDURE CONCERNANT SRI **LANKA**
  PROCEDURE WITH RESPECT TO SRI **LANKA**
  ([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 3161201)

- Je connais le Sri **Lanka** pour y avoir été.
  I know Sri **Lanka**, I have been there.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 56620)

- PROCÉDURE CONCERNANT LE SRI **LANKA**
  PROCEDURE WITH RESPECT TO SRI **LANKA**
  ([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 3459761)

- Je reviens du Sri **Lanka** et d’Indonésie.
  I have just returned from Sri **Lanka** and Indonesia.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 709906)

## More sentences

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

- En effet, mon collègue, M. Mann, a mentionné la visite au Sri **Lanka**. La précédente intervenante n'écoute de toute évidence pas ce qui se dit dans ce débat.
  Indeed, my colleague, Mr Mann, referred to the visit there: the previous speaker is obviously not listening to what is going on in this debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1563436)

- En mai, des troupes gouvernementales ont repris les territoires situés dans le Nord du Sri **Lanka**, anciennement aux mains des LTTE.
  In May, government troops captured the areas in the north held by the LTTE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1297315)

- 80. Mme Aidoo (Rapporteuse pour Sri **Lanka**) demande si le secteur du tourisme coopère avec le Gouvernement pour lutter contre l &apos; exploitation sexuelle des enfants.
  Ms. Aidoo (Country Rapporteur) asked whether the tourist industry was cooperating with the Government &apos; s efforts to overcome the sexual exploitation of children.
  ([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 22553904)

## Grammar

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