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# ménages — French to English

How French *ménages* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: ménages (30 224). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 471 · legal and administrative 2 299 · UN documents 27 453.

## households

Used about 27 266 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 373 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 299 · UN documents ≈ 24 593). Forms: household, households.

- Le prix élevé de l'essence fait grimper les dépenses des **ménages**.
  The high price of petrol is driving up **household** expenses.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10948313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10948313) [\#10948324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10948324))

- Entre 5 et 9 % d'entre eux travaillent dans des **ménages** privés.
  Between 5% and 9% of all employees work in private **households**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1559704)

- ISBL au service des **ménages**
  Non-profit institution serving **households**
  ([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 1318183)

- Caractéristiques des **ménages** privés
  Characteristics of private **households**
  ([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 15201746)

- Il y a toujours plus de **ménages** solitaires et de personnes âgées isolées.
  There are an increasing number of one-person **households** and elderly people living alone.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1944670)

## More sentences

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

- Cette situation a entraîné la chute des revenus de nombreux **ménages**, dont bon nombre sont exposés à la pauvreté et à l'endettement excessif.
  This has meant that many homes have seen their incomes fall, and many are exposed to poverty and excessive debt.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1360250)

- Les **ménages** doivent constituer la cible principale des actions.
  The main area in which work is needed is actually that of domestic householders.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2013318)

- Je reconnais que l'approche graduelle est réaliste : pour une ouverture progressive, il est plus méthodique de commencer par les clients non résidentiels, puis de s'attaquer aux **ménages**.
  I recognise that the step-by-step approach is a realistic one: first all non-domestic consumers then domestic later, as a progressive opening, is a more orderly process.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 298431)

## Grammar

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