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# prison — French to English

How French *prison* 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: prison (49 096), prisons (26 978). By style: everyday 358 · literary 25 · biblical 98 · parliamentary 2 213 · legal and administrative 734 · UN documents 72 646.

## prison

Used about 64 695 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 237 · literary ≈ 23 · biblical ≈ 66 · parliamentary ≈ 1 706 · legal and administrative ≈ 612 · UN documents ≈ 62 052). Forms: prison, prisoners, prisons. Meaning: [prison in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prison/).

- La **prison** l'a-t-il changé?
  Has **prison** changed him?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#715590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/715590) [\#3864728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3864728))

- --En **prison**, dit-il.
  “In **prison**,” said he.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6597)

- et il envoya décapiter Jean dans la **prison**.
  and he sent and beheaded John in the **prison**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 14:10)

- Troisièmement, les **prisons** ne sont pas des hôtels.
  Thirdly, **prisons** are not hotels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052061)

- Autres (par exemple: **prison**)
  Other (e.g. **prison**)
  ([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 1520728)

## sentenced

Used about 3 163 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 23 · legal and administrative ≈ 107 · UN documents ≈ 3 027).

- Ayant été convaincu de meurtre, il fut condamné à la **prison** à vie.
  Having been convicted of murder, he was **sentenced** to life imprisonment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#244935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244935) [\#8242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8242))

- Il risque d'être condamné en octobre ou novembre à une peine allant jusqu'à 25 ans de **prison**, et il faut vraiment agir maintenant.
  He is likely to be **sentenced** in October or November to up to 25 years' imprisonment, and now is really the time to act.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1636745)

- En juillet 2011, elle a condamné d'autres militants à des peines de **prison** de dix jours.
  In July 2011, she **sentenced** other activists to 10 days in jail.
  ([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 2716812)

- Le troisième défendeur a été condamné à la **prison** à perpétuité et à 20 ans de détention.
  The third defendant was **sentenced** to life imprisonment plus 20 years in jail.
  ([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 722036)

- Toutefois, il est difficile de savoir s &apos; il a été placé en garde à vue ou effectivement condamné à une peine de **prison**.
  Nevertheless, it is not clear whether he was kept in custody or actually **sentenced** to imprisonment.
  ([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 5561923)

## years

Used about 2 293 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 2 270).

- Cela fait douze ans qu'elle oppose une résistance pacifique et elle n'a toujours rien obtenu. Elle est assignée à résidence et ses partisans sont jetés en **prison**.
  She has now been in peaceful protest for twelve **years** and still she is being sidelined and placed under house arrest, and her people are being arrested.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 88790)

- L &apos; article 110 punit de trois ans de **prison** la restriction illégale de la liberté d &apos; autrui.
  557. Article 110, the illegal restraint of freedom is punished with three **years** of imprisonment.
  ([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 11752875)

- Si l &apos; infraction a été commise contre des enfants, la peine se situe entre trois et quinze ans (de **prison**).
  If the criminal offence was perpetrated against children the sentence is between 3 - 15 **years**
  ([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 22527846)

- Suite à la modification du plaidoyer, l &apos; Accusation a retiré toutes les autres accusations portées contre l &apos; accusée et requis une peine de **prison** comprise entre 15 et 25 ans.
  As a consequence of the change of plea, the Prosecution withdrew all other charges against the accused and sought a sentence in the range of 15-25 **years**.
  ([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 10028510)

## jail

Used about 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 138). Meaning: [jail in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/jail/).

- J'ai fini en **prison**.
  I ended up in **jail**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5859302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859302) [\#7763245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7763245))

- S’il les partage, pourquoi M. Khodorkovsky est-il en **prison**?
  If it does, why is Mr Khodorkovsky in **jail**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 525740)

- Je vais te mettre en **prison**.
  I'll throw you in **jail**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6375852](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6375852) [\#6375863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6375863))

- En ce moment même, des dizaines de milliers de personnes sont en **prison** et des dizaines sont mortes.
  At this very moment, there are tens of thousands of people in **jail** and dozens have died.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 736450)

- Je n'ai jamais été en **prison**.
  I've never been in **jail**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#11874990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11874990) [\#13393371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13393371))

## More sentences

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

- Le palais était une **prison** dorée pour la princesse.
  The palace was a gilded cage for the princess.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3767596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3767596) [\#10148474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10148474))

- Christophe Colomb fut explorateur, non pas parce qu'il aimait la mer, mais parce qu'il détestait les **prisons** espagnoles.
  Christopher Columbus wasn't an explorer because he loved the sea. He was an explorer because he hated Spanish jails.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · [\#547067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547067) [\#547071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547071))

- Ils mirent les mains sur eux, et ils les jetèrent en **prison** jusqu’au lendemain; car c’était déjà le soir.
  They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 4:3)

## 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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