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# para — French to English

How French *para* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: para (24 806), paraes (5), paras (2 305). By style: literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 17 · legal and administrative 478 · UN documents 26 617.

## para

Used about 24 165 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 7 · legal and administrative ≈ 438 · UN documents ≈ 23 718). Forms: para, paras.

- --Vite, des cartouches! **para** bellum.
  “Quick, cartridges, **para** bellum.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23417)

- "Si vis pacem, **para** bellum" ("Qui veut la paix, prépare la guerre"), disait-on dans l'Antiquité.
  'Si vis pacem, **para** bellum' ('If you wish for peace, prepare for war') said the ancients.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1437710)

- en espagnol huevos **para** incubar
  in Spanish huevos **para** incubar
  ([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 2432478)

- CAT/C/TUR/CO/3, **para**. 28.
  CAT/C/TUR/CO/3, **para**. 28.
  ([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 29292626)

- Ce trépied vivant le salua au passage, mais en arrêtant son chapeau à la hauteur du menton de Gringoire, comme un plat à barbe, et en lui criant aux oreilles: «Señor caballero, **para** comprar un pedaso de pan\[23\]!
  This living tripod saluted him as he passed, but stopping his hat on a level with Gringoire’s chin, like a shaving dish, while he shouted in the latter’s ears: “Señor cabellero, **para** comprar un pedaso de pan!”\[11\]
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1154)

## suppl

Used about 1 054 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 054).

- Add.68/Amend.3 Suppl.2 to 01 5.12.01 123 776, **para**. 119 785 b/
  Add.68/Amend.3 **Suppl**.2 to 01 5.12.01 123 776, para. 119 785 b/
  ([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 11252517)

- Add.64/Amend.3 Suppl.3 to 00 15.8.02 125 815, **para**. 135 829 b/
  Add.64/Amend.3 **Suppl**.3 to 00 15.8.02 125 815, para. 135 829 b/
  ([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 11252428)

- Add.12H/Amend.2 Suppl.2 20.2.02 124 792, **para**. 134 795 AC.1 (18th) b/
  Add.12H/Amend.2 **Suppl**.2 20.2.02 124 792, para. 134 795 AC.1 (18th) b/
  ([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 12807729)

- Add.95/Amend.4 Suppl.1 to 01 31.1.03 127 861, **para**. 157 876 AC.1 (21st) b/
  Add.95/Amend.4 **Suppl**.1 to 01 31.1.03 127 861, para. 157 876 AC.1 (21st) b/
  ([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 12809939)

## rev

Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10). Meaning: [rev in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/rev/).

- Selon les définitions de la résolution d’ensemble sur la construction des véhicules (R.E.3) (document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/Rev.2,**para**.2).
  As defined in the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3), document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/**Rev**.2, paragraph 2.
  ([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 5506183)

## More sentences

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

- Jéhu entra dans Jizreel. Jézabel, l’ayant appris, mit du fard à ses yeux, se **para** la tête, et regarda par la fenêtre.
  When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 9:30)

- Avvim, **Para**, Ophra,
  Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 18:23)

- Il s' agit en fait d' une légalisation du fichage par le biais d' une instance européenne **para**-judiciaire.
  All this means is that personal records are to be legalised through a quasi-judicial European body.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 267223)

## Grammar

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