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# mêmes — French to English

How French *mêmes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: mêmes (115 261). By style: everyday 285 · literary 22 · biblical 176 · parliamentary 13 050 · legal and administrative 14 379 · UN documents 87 349.

## same

Used about 62 356 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 3 806 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 084 · UN documents ≈ 47 314). Meaning: [same in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/same/).

- Ils sont tous les **mêmes**.
  They're all the **same**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cedo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2547626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547626) [\#653896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/653896))

- Il ne s'apercevait pas qu'il recommençait toujours les **mêmes**.
  He did not observe that he asked the **same** ones over and over again.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28868)

- Et il se détourna de lui pour s’adresser à un autre, et fit les **mêmes** questions. Le peuple lui répondit comme la première fois.
  He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the **same** way.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:30)

- Elles devraient enfin sentir qu’elles ont les **mêmes** droits que n’importe quel autre citoyen européen.
  They should at long last be made to feel that they have the **same** rights as any other EU citizen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 692165)

- Les **mêmes** règles s’appliquent aux fournitures, aux matériaux et aux experts.
  The **same** rules shall apply in respect of supplies, materials and experts.
  ([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 764005)

## themselves

Used about 22 587 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 83 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 4 894 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 198 · UN documents ≈ 16 378).

- Ils l'ignoraient eux-**mêmes**.
  They didn't know it **themselves**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#307727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307727) [\#3526965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3526965))

- En avançant eux-**mêmes**, ils font progresser leurs satellites; c'est tout un système solaire en marche.
  As they advance **themselves**, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1076)

- Nous avons donc envoyé Jude et Silas, qui vous annonceront de leur bouche les **mêmes** choses.
  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who **themselves** will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:27)

- Je voudrais faire quelques commentaires sur les rapports eux-**mêmes**.
  I would like to make a few comments about the reports **themselves**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1333500)

- inviter les parties elles-**mêmes** à s'exprimer sur certains aspects du litige.
  invite the parties **themselves** to express their views on certain aspects of the case.
  ([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 3237274)

## as

Used about 6 875 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 088 · legal and administrative ≈ 300 · UN documents ≈ 5 459). Meaning: [as in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/as/).

- Les souffrances de l'âge de la mécanisation ne prennent pas leur origine dans les machines elles-**mêmes**.
  The agonies of the machine age do not originate from the machines **as** such.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and helloroto · checked, community translation · [\#20473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20473) [\#1267447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1267447))

- D'ailleurs, notre désespoir ayant cela de particulier qu'il enveloppe autrui comme nous-**mêmes**, il lui semblait logique que tout le monde vînt mourir.
  Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others **as** well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should come thither to die.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25850)

- Mais vous tous, revenez à vos **mêmes** discours, Et je ne trouverai pas un sage parmi vous.
  But **as** for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 17:10)

- La Commission y attache donc le plus grand prix, comme vous-**mêmes**.
  The Commission attaches the greatest importance to this, just **as** you yourselves do.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 8743)

- La demande n'a toutefois pas baissé dans les **mêmes** proportions que le volume des ventes entre 2001 et la période d'enquête.
  However, the demand did not decrease **as** much as the sales volume between 2001 and the IP.
  ([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 645862)

## rights

Used about 3 911 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 272 · UN documents ≈ 3 640).

- au nom du groupe ECR. - (EN) Madame la Présidente, l'UE est fondée sur le principe selon lequel tous ses citoyen bénéficient des **mêmes** droits et libertés.
  on behalf of the ECR Group. - Madam President, the EU is founded on the principle that all its citizens enjoy equal **rights** and freedoms.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1473480)

- 645. En ce qui concerne leurs enfants, les parents ont les **mêmes** droits et les **mêmes** devoirs même après la dissolution du mariage.
  Parents have equal **rights** and duties in what concerns their children also if their marriage has been dissolved.
  ([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 7847134)

- En outre, nous avons veillé à ce que les personnes atteintes du VIH/sida aient les **mêmes** droits que les personnes atteintes d &apos; autres maladies en Turquie.
  Moreover, we have ensured that people living with AIDS have **rights** equal to those of other diseased people in Turkey.
  ([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 14565380)

## people

Used about 557 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 544). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- Il y a toujours plus de monde pour corriger les erreurs des autres que pour faire des choses par eux-**mêmes**.
  There are always more **people** who want to fix someone else's mistakes than those who want to do something on their own.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lovasoa and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2839905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2839905) [\#4737164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4737164))

- Le peuple, répétant les **mêmes** choses, lui dit: C’est ainsi que l’on fera à celui qui le tuera.
  The **people** answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:27)

- Plus le nombre de personnes sans enfant est élevé aujourd’hui, plus les jeunes souhaiteront, à terme, rester eux-**mêmes** sans enfant.
  Yet the higher the proportion of childless **people** today, the more young people will, in turn, want to remain childless.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795420)

- Josué dit au peuple: Vous êtes témoins contre vous-**mêmes** que c’est vous qui avez choisi l’Éternel pour le servir. Ils répondirent: Nous en sommes témoins.
  Joshua said to the **people**, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 24:22)

- Nous le devons aux Timorais de l'Est, nous le devons à la MINUTO qui a fait un travail tellement exceptionnel et nous le devons à nous-**mêmes**.
  We owe that to the **people** of East Timor, we owe that to UNAMET, which has carried out such excellent work, and we owe it to ourselves.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2008460)

## More sentences

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

- Allons le voir par nous-**mêmes** !
  Let's go and see for ourselves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11051844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11051844) [\#7725020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7725020))

- Les Soviétiques et nous-**mêmes** faisons face à la menace commune de destruction nucléaire et il est peu probable que le capitalisme ou le communisme survive à une guerre nucléaire.
  Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#6287174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6287174) [\#8246961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8246961))

- Tom parle mieux le japonais que les japonais eux-**mêmes**.
  Tom speaks Japanese better than Japanese do.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kiyo and CN · checked, community translation · [\#2523845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2523845) [\#2517223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2517223))

## 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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