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# parmi — French to English

How French *parmi* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: parmi (145 790), parmis (5). By style: everyday 145 · literary 28 · biblical 565 · parliamentary 9 755 · legal and administrative 6 274 · UN documents 129 028.

## among

Used about 35 083 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 91 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 377 · parliamentary ≈ 2 642 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 177 · UN documents ≈ 29 776). Meaning: [among in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/among/).

- Ils sont **parmi** nous !
  They are **among** us!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and Clavain · checked, community translation · [\#447193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/447193) [\#447192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/447192))

- Donc, **parmi** tous ces géants, il y eut un titan, Cambronne.
  Now, then, **among** those giants there was one Titan,—Cambronne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7404)

- Le plus grand **parmi** vous sera votre serviteur.
  But he who is greatest **among** you will be your servant.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:11)

- Elle a sa place **parmi** nous.
  They belong **among** us.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 634939)

- Le président est alternativement choisi **parmi** les membres des trois groupes.
  The President shall be elected in turn from **among** the members of the three groups.
  ([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 1196407)

## many

Used about 8 090 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 610 · UN documents ≈ 7 444). Meaning: [many in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/many/).

- **Parmi** tant de merveilleuses gravures, il y a en particulier une eau-forte qui représente, à ce qu'on suppose, le docteur Faust, et qu'il est impossible de contempler sans éblouissement.
  Amid so **many** marvellous engravings, there is one etching in particular, which is supposed to represent Doctor Faust, and which it is impossible to contemplate without being dazzled.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4063)

- Mes frères, qu’il n’y ait pas **parmi** vous un grand nombre de personnes qui se mettent à enseigner, car vous savez que nous serons jugés plus sévèrement.
  Let not **many** of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 3:1)

- Il a montré que nous ne sommes qu'un acteur **parmi** beaucoup d'autres de la scène mondiale.
  It has shown that we are only one of **many** players on the world stage.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1330272)

- Nombreux sont les exemples de noblesse de caractère et de grand sens moral, notamment **parmi** les enseignants qui s &apos; intéressent sincèrement aux enfants et consacrent leur vie à autrui.
  There are **many** examples of noble human beings or excellent teachers who sincerely care for children and devote their lives to others.
  ([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 10498574)

- Considérez, frères, que **parmi** vous qui avez été appelés il n’y a ni beaucoup de sages selon la chair, ni beaucoup de puissants, ni beaucoup de nobles.
  For you see your calling, brothers, that not **many** are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 1:26)

## More sentences

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

- Alors la sœur de l'enfant dit à la fille de Pharaon : Veux-tu que j'aille te chercher une nourrice **parmi** les femmes des Hébreux, pour allaiter cet enfant ?
  And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#7963990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7963990) [\#9209111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9209111))

- Personne **parmi** nous ne s'est bien débrouillé pour le contrôle.
  None of us did well on the test.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7485872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7485872) [\#14007214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14007214))

- Les récifs coralliens comptent **parmi** les habitats naturels les plus extraordinaires de la planète.
  Coral reefs are some of the most amazing natural habitats on Earth.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3162886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3162886) [\#10496958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10496958))

## Grammar

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