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# pays — French to English

How French *pays* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: pays (1 897 383). By style: everyday 1 255 · literary 45 · biblical 1 500 · parliamentary 126 016 · legal and administrative 113 021 · UN documents 1 655 546.

## country

Used about 1 417 711 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 967 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 125 · parliamentary ≈ 112 889 · legal and administrative ≈ 96 539 · UN documents ≈ 1 207 169). Forms: countries, country. Meaning: [country in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/country/).

- Nous adorons notre **pays**.
  We love our **country**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4500873](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500873) [\#5381829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5381829))

- --On dit que c'est un beau **pays**.
  “A very fine **country**, they say.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2387)

- Il étendra sa main sur divers **pays**, et le **pays** d’Égypte n’échappera point.
  He will also stretch out his hand on the **countries**. The land of Egypt won’t escape.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 11:42)

- Dans mon **pays** - l'Allemagne - probablement pas.
  In my **country** - Germany - probably not.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1457134)

- **Pays** de l'Amérique latine
  **Countries** of Latin America
  ([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 1964928)

## More sentences

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

- J'enseignerai l'espéranto dans mon **pays**.
  I will teach Esperanto in my land.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kareybh · checked, community translation · [\#2343120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343120) [\#1787706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1787706))

- Le Venezuela est mon deuxième **pays**.
  Venezuela is my second homeland.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12960147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12960147) [\#3875883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3875883))

- La dette du **pays** va croissant.
  The national debt is growing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#680641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680641) [\#2022374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2022374))

## 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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