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# pauvres — French to English

How French *pauvres* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: pauvres (64 319). By style: everyday 150 · literary 30 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 5 001 · legal and administrative 255 · UN documents 58 835.

## poor

Used about 57 280 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 141 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 4 272 · legal and administrative ≈ 90 · UN documents ≈ 52 706). Forms: poor, poorest. Meaning: [poor in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/poor/).

- Il a aidé les **pauvres**.
  He helped the **poor**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Thanuir · checked, community translation · [\#7792057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7792057) [\#2101717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2101717))

- --Pour vos **pauvres**, dit-il.
  “For your **poor**,” he said.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2507)

- Heureux les **pauvres** en esprit, car le royaume des cieux est à eux!
  “Blessed are the **poor** in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 5:3)

- Personne ne veut avoir de voisins **pauvres**.
  No one wants **poor** neighbours.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 620137)

- Il devrait essentiellement bénéficier aux catégories les plus **pauvres** de la population dans les pays couverts.
  It should primarily benefit the **poorest** sections of the populations in the countries it covers.
  ([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 4473866)

## people

Used about 1 227 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 226). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- --Il y en a de plus **pauvres** que vous, la Vargoulême.
  “There are poorer **people** than you, la Vargoulême.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23291)

- Si le sort des personnes âgées s &apos; est amélioré, certains sous-groupes, comme celui des femmes seules, sont relativement plus **pauvres**.
  While most elderly **people** were better off, some sub-groups such as unattached females were relatively poorer.
  ([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 357801)

## countries

Used about 323 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 313 · legal and administrative ≈ 11).

- Nous voulons que ces droits soient garantis également aux travailleurs des pays **pauvres**.
  We want these rights to also be afforded to workers in the poorer **countries**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2032809)

- La BEI devrait s’efforcer d'étendre progressivement ses activités dans un plus grand nombre de pays de ces régions, y compris les pays les plus **pauvres**.
  The EIB should endeavour to progressively expand its activities across a larger number of **countries** in those regions, including in the less prosperous countries.
  ([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 869223)

- Monsieur le Président, dans la plupart des pays africains, les gens sont plus **pauvres** aujourd'hui qu'au jour de l'indépendance de leur pays.
  Mr President, ordinary people in most African **countries** are poorer today than when their countries became independent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 36547)

- La BEI devrait s’efforcer d’étendre progressivement ses activités dans un plus grand nombre de pays de ces régions, y compris dans les pays les plus **pauvres**.
  The EIB should endeavour to progressively expand its activities across a larger number of **countries** in those regions, including in less prosperous countries.
  ([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 1699616)

- La question de principe intéressante qui se pose est la suivante: faut-il, pour favoriser le secteur viticole européen, autoriser que soient évincés des pays plus **pauvres**?
  The interesting question in terms of principle is that of whether poorer **countries** are to be allowed to be squeezed out in order to favour European wine production.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 907593)

## rich

Used about 5 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 5). Meaning: [rich in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/rich/).

- La délivrance de permis d'exploitation concerne les zones dites «ouvertes», réputées plus **pauvres** en ressources minérales et de moindre valeur.
  Authorisations concern so called ‘open areas’ considered to be less **rich** in minerals and less valuable.
  ([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 3828873)

## More sentences

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

- Les périphéries des villes sont plus **pauvres**.
  The outskirts of the cities are poorer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12008652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12008652) [\#12008660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12008660))

- C'est un de ces **pauvres** types !
  He's such a jerk.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2220321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2220321) [\#2223039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2223039))

- Vous êtes un de ces **pauvres** types !
  You're such a jerk.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2220319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2220319) [\#2223046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2223046))

## 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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