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# prisons — French to English

How French *prisons* 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: prisons (26 978). By style: everyday 11 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 786 · legal and administrative 123 · UN documents 26 051.

## prisons

Used about 24 706 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 688 · legal and administrative ≈ 123 · UN documents ≈ 23 880). Forms: prison, prisoners, prisons.

- Les **prisons** ne sont pas des hôtels.
  **Prisons** are not hotels.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#12901216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12901216) [\#12902137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12902137))

- À la bastille Saint-Antoine, au Palais de Justice de Paris, au Louvre, ces édifices souterrains étaient des **prisons**.
  At the fortress of Saint-Antoine, at the Palais de Justice of Paris, at the Louvre, these subterranean edifices were **prisons**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5141)

- 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)

- Chef de l'organisation des **prisons** iraniennes.
  Head of Iran’s **Prisons** Organisation.
  ([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 2242524)

- Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia **Prisons** Service;
  Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia **Prisons** Service;
  ([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 18509246)

## More sentences

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

- 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))

- sous les coups, dans les **prisons**, dans les troubles, dans les travaux, dans les veilles, dans les jeûnes;
  in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 6:5)

- Formation embryonnaire des crimes dans l'incubation des **prisons**
  Javert’s triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been so.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18836)

## Grammar

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