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# lois — French to English

How French *lois* 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: lois (139 533). By style: everyday 83 · literary 6 · biblical 118 · parliamentary 3 459 · legal and administrative 2 468 · UN documents 133 399.

## laws

Used about 102 693 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 83 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 3 099 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 211 · UN documents ≈ 97 270). Forms: law, laws.

- La faim ne connaît pas de **lois**.
  Hunger knows no **law**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mccarras · checked, community translation · [\#20078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20078) [\#967665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967665))

- Les **lois** de septembre sont à claire-voie.
  The **laws** of September are open to sight.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18183)

- C’est d’après tes **lois** que tout subsiste aujourd’hui, Car toutes choses te sont assujetties.
  Your **laws** remain to this day, for all things serve you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:91)

- Nous créons des **lois** de premier choix.
  We are creating great **laws**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1535249)

- D'après les **lois** sur les gaz, n peut s'exprimer par:
  From the gas **laws** n may be expressed as:
  ([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 3941160)

## regulations

Used about 2 779 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 779).

- Les Instructions concernant les études et rapports officiels contiennent des règles plus détaillées relatives à l &apos; élaboration des **lois** et dispositions réglementaires et aux procédures de consultation du public.
  The Instructions for Official Studies and Reports contain more detailed rules on the preparation of acts and **regulations** and procedures for public consultation.
  ([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 19074236)

## More sentences

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

- Toutes ses ordonnances ont été devant moi, Et je ne me suis point écarté de ses **lois**.
  For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 22:23)

- qui suit mes **lois** et observe mes ordonnances en agissant avec fidélité, celui-là est juste, il vivra, dit le Seigneur, l’Éternel.
  has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord GOD.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 18:9)

- Je te louerai dans la droiture de mon cœur, En apprenant les **lois** de ta justice.
  I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:7)

## 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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