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# parents — French to English

How French *parents* 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: parents (87 236). By style: everyday 1 303 · literary 14 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 1 829 · legal and administrative 694 · UN documents 83 366.

## parents

Used about 76 248 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 249 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 1 562 · legal and administrative ≈ 463 · UN documents ≈ 72 945).

- Je déteste ses **parents**.
  I hate his **parents**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1655827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1655827) [\#1662436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1662436))

- --Avez-vous vos **parents**?»
  “Are your **parents** alive?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1625)

- Enfants, obéissez à vos **parents**, selon le Seigneur, car cela est juste.
  Children, obey your **parents** in the Lord, for this is right.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:1)

- Ni les **parents** ni leurs enfants n'ont accès aux soins de santé.
  Their **parents** and children are not allowed access to healthcare.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 911084)

- noms et prénoms des **parents**,
  forenames and surnames of **parents**,
  ([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 1370831)

## relatives

Used about 3 683 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 114 · legal and administrative ≈ 58 · UN documents ≈ 3 474).

- Avez-vous des **parents** à l’étranger ?
  Have you got any **relatives** abroad?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12489343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12489343) [\#9469262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9469262))

- --Je n'ai plus de **parents**.
  “I have no longer any **relatives**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3169)

- Car je voudrais moi-même être anathème et séparé de Christ pour mes frères, mes **parents** selon la chair,
  For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my **relatives** according to the flesh
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 9:3)

- Laissons à la magistrature la tâche de dévoiler la vérité, vérité qui est due à chacun et non seulement aux **parents** des victimes.
  Let us leave it to the magistracy to ascertain the truth which is the right of everyone, not only of the victims' **relatives**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2017903)

- Personnel: visites à des **parents** et amis
  Personal: visiting **relatives** and friends
  ([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 2409645)

## child

Used about 1 775 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 38 · UN documents ≈ 1 737). Forms: child, children. Meaning: [child in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/child/).

- Il existe également une corrélation directe entre les taux de mortalité infantile et le niveau d'éducation des **parents**.
  There is a clear link between **child** mortality rates and the level of parental education.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 230697)

- Si les enfants vivent chez leurs grands-**parents**, ils peuvent être assurés par leur intermédiaire.
  If **children** live in the household of grandparents, they may be insured with them.
  ([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 11966450)

## More sentences

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

- Tous mes grands-**parents** sont encore en vie.
  All of my grandparents are still living.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7528085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7528085) [\#7528724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7528724))

- Les **parents** de Jésus, ayant appris ce qui se passait, vinrent pour se saisir de lui; car ils disaient: Il est hors de sens.
  When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 3:21)

- Quand ses **parents** le virent, ils furent saisis d’étonnement, et sa mère lui dit: Mon enfant, pourquoi as-tu agi de la sorte avec nous? Voici, ton père et moi, nous te cherchions avec angoisse.
  When they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 2:48)

## Grammar

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