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# médicaments — French to English

How French *médicaments* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: médicaments (31 322). By style: everyday 147 · literary 1 · parliamentary 3 869 · legal and administrative 6 538 · UN documents 20 767.

## medicinal

Used about 18 996 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 77 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 063 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 040 · UN documents ≈ 10 816). Forms: medical, medicinal, medicine, medicines. Meaning: [medicinal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/medicinal/).

- J'ai pris les **médicaments**.
  I took the **medicine**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pandark and vgigregg · checked, community translation · [\#759375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/759375) [\#761136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/761136))

- Comme ta mère n'en pouvait plus de fatigue et que moi j'étais occupé à la boutique, il allait chez le pharmacien chercher tes **médicaments**.
  When your mother was half-dead with fatigue and I had to attend to the shop, he would go to the chemist’s to fetch your **medicine**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 892)

- Les enfants prennent des **médicaments**; et même proportionnellement beaucoup.
  Children take **medicinal** products; lots of them, relatively speaking.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 820428)

- et/ou \[— de **médicaments** vétérinaires,\]
  and/or \[— veterinary **medicinal** products,\]
  ([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 3453691)

- Les **médicaments** sont délivrés gratuitement.
  **Medicines** are distributed free-of-charge.
  ([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 29267803)

## drugs

Used about 7 174 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 403 · legal and administrative ≈ 272 · UN documents ≈ 6 490).

- Il n'y a pas de **médicaments**, ici.
  There are no **drugs** here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1129669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1129669) [\#3649038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3649038))

- Les cinq pour cent restants sont des **médicaments** brevetés dans la plupart des pays.
  The remaining 5% are **drugs** patented in most countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 243213)

- développer de nouveaux et meilleurs vaccins et **médicaments** préventifs et thérapeutiques;
  developing new and better preventive and therapeutic vaccines and **drugs**;
  ([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 3061461)

- x. Réfrigérateurs pour **médicaments**\#
  x. Refrigerator for **drugs**\#
  ([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 20138227)

- Ne jetez jamais de **médicaments** dans les toilettes.
  Never flush **drugs** down the toilet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5046272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5046272) [\#8959171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8959171))

## medication

Used about 1 428 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · parliamentary ≈ 81 · UN documents ≈ 1 298). Meaning: [medication in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/medication/).

- Prends-tu des **médicaments** ?
  Are you on **medication**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10697322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10697322) [\#10705504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10705504))

- Mais ce qui est important, c'est de savoir - même si un médicament coûte USD10 - si nous avons la volonté de financer l'achat de ces **médicaments** ?
  But what is important, even if it is USD 10 for **medication**, do we have the will to fund the procurement?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 174653)

- Cette position limite très fortement la disponibilité des **médicaments** et leur accès.
  This position very strongly limits availability of and access to **medication**.
  ([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 14563489)

- Il n'a pas ses **médicaments**.
  He doesn't have his **medication**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RJH and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1920732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1920732) [\#8273899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8273899))

- f) Augmenter les quantités de matériel médical et de **médicaments** disponibles, tout particulièrement en faveur des femmes victimes de violences.
  (f) To increase the availability of medical equipment and **medication**, especially for women victims of violence.
  ([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 5161051)

## products

Used about 570 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 161 · legal and administrative ≈ 409).

- Je suis pour ma part favorable à l'extension de l'enregistrement des **médicaments** contenant de nouvelles substances actives.
  I would like to argue in favour of the wider registration of medical **products** with new active substances.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 374547)

- les levures conditionnées comme **médicaments** et les autres produits des nos 3003 ou 3004;
  yeast put up as a medicament or other **products** of heading 3003 or 3004; or
  ([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 3006949)

- Il pourrait s'avérer difficile de faire dépenser de l'argent à quelqu'un afin de tester des **médicaments** destinés à une seule espèce en particulier.
  It may be difficult to get someone to spend the money to test these **products** for one particular species.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 374690)

- Hosties, cachets vides des types utilisés pour **médicaments**, pains à cacheter, pâtes séchées de farine, d'amidon ou de fécule en feuilles et produits similaires
  Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar **products**
  ([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 3289022)

- Dans le cas de certains produits autorisés, il se peut que des entreprises pharmaceutiques disposent déjà de données sur la sécurité ou l'efficacité des **médicaments** utilisés en pédiatrie.
  For certain authorised **products**, pharmaceutical companies may already hold data on safety or efficacy in the paediatric population.
  ([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 1077963)

## More sentences

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

- Les **médicaments** ont fait partir ma douleur.
  The tablets took away my pain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and magnificentgoddess · checked, community translation · [\#268562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/268562) [\#1303102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1303102))

- Prenez-vous des **médicaments** ?
  Are you on any medications?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4014534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4014534) [\#10696620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10696620))

- Il fait une allergie aux **médicaments**.
  He has a drug allergy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#324216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324216) [\#1313377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1313377))

## Grammar

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