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# pour — French to English

How French *pour* 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: pour (6 841 212), pours (17). By style: everyday 17 986 · literary 934 · biblical 4 793 · parliamentary 431 556 · legal and administrative 822 521 · UN documents 5 563 439.

## our

Used about 249 320 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 367 · literary ≈ 39 · biblical ≈ 399 · parliamentary ≈ 69 049 · UN documents ≈ 179 466).

- Nous n’avons pas assez de force **pour** suivre toute notre raison.
  We have not strength enough to follow **our** reason so far as it would carry us.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by csabus and csabus · checked, community translation · [\#3788347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3788347) [\#3788307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3788307))

- ---Tu n'es pas galant **pour** notre invitée, papa.
  “You are not very polite to **our** guest, father.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 15)

- Éternel, tu nous donnes la paix; Car tout ce que nous faisons, C’est toi qui l’accomplis **pour** nous.
  LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all **our** work for us.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 26:12)

- **Pour** nous, il est essentiel que justice soit rendue aux trois éléments.
  It is important, in **our** view, that justice should be done to all three elements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 824580)

- Que le Haut-Représentant du Secrétaire général **pour** les affaires de désarmement trouve ici nos sincères félicitations **pour** sa déclaration liminaire.
  We also offer **our** congratulations to the Secretary-General &apos; s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on his opening statement.
  ([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 21956191)

## More sentences

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

- Quel est le meilleur engrais **pour** les tomates ?
  What's the best fertilizer for tomatoes?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Elliv and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2489012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2489012) [\#2927808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2927808))

- Tom a ouvert la porte de la voiture **pour** monter.
  Tom opened the car door to get in.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2986026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2986026) [\#5359043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5359043))

- J'appelle **pour** signaler un portefeuille perdu.
  I'm calling to report a lost wallet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2799705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2799705) [\#5685909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5685909))

## 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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