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# privés — French to English

How French *privés* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: privés (51 932). By style: everyday 11 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 2 230 · legal and administrative 5 222 · UN documents 44 463.

## private

Used about 34 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 672 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 460 · UN documents ≈ 28 716). Meaning: [private in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/private/).

- La banque était dirigée par des citoyens **privés**.
  The bank was run by **private** citizens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#807299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/807299) [\#1085788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1085788))

- Les sources de capitaux **privés** se sont elles aussi taries.
  **Private** capital has also dried up.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1315706)

- Participation des investisseurs (187) **privés** (188)
  Participation by **private** (187) investors (188)
  ([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 1506010)

- Donateurs **privés** en Argentine
  **Private** donors in Argentina
  ([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 14744895)

- Mes messages sont **privés** ! Tu ne peux pas les lire !
  My messages are **private**! You can't read them!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14047302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14047302) [\#14047303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14047303))

## deprived

Used about 8 431 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 93 · UN documents ≈ 8 337). Meaning: [deprived in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/deprived/).

- Si les gens qui fument sont **privés** de leurs cigarettes, ils deviennent nerveux et irritables.
  If people who smoke are **deprived** of their cigarettes, they get nervous and irritable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#19925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19925) [\#1076744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1076744))

- Son absence à ces réunions nous aurait **privés** de certaines opportunités pour défendre les priorités que vous exposez ici.
  His absence from these meetings would have **deprived** us of certain opportunities to defend the priorities that you outline here.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 706090)

- F. Enfants **privés** de leur milieu familial 60 - 61
  F. Children **deprived** of a family
  ([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 4958599)

- Ils ont développé leurs propres culture et identité et ont, à plusieurs occasions, lutté pour leur indépendance, dont Staline les a **privés** avant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.
  They have developed their own culture and identity and have on several occasions fought for their independence, which Stalin **deprived** them of before the Second World War.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1119101)

- 571.1 Milieu de remplacement temporaire ou permanent pour les enfants **privés** de leur milieu familial
  5-7-7-1 Alternative care for children **deprived** from their family environment on temporary or permanent basis
  ([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 13523228)

## children

Used about 1 854 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 853).

- et ces hommes dirent à Moïse: Nous sommes impurs à cause d’un mort; pourquoi serions-nous **privés** de présenter au temps fixé l’offrande de l’Éternel au milieu des enfants d’Israël?
  Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the **children** of Israel?”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 9:7)

- 2. Enfants **privés** de liberté (article 37 b)- d))
  2. **Children** in custody (art. 37 (b)-(d))
  ([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 10521511)

- Dans ces situations, les enfants pouvaient être **privés** des services éducatifs et médicaux nécessaires, et des structures abritant des enfants pouvaient être la cible d &apos; attaques.
  In such situations, **children** might not be provided with the necessary educational and medical services, and facilities with children present could be attacked.
  ([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 29239852)

## investors

Used about 109 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 109).

- Les investisseurs **privés** exerçant en Allemagne sont soumis à la taxe professionnelle sur la part bénéficiaire des apports tacites.
  Commercial **investors** in Germany pay trade tax on profit shares from silent participations.
  ([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 841763)

## public

Used about 46 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 46). Meaning: [public in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/public/).

- Les directives sectorielles seules n’auront pour résultat que le «saucissonnage» de l’intérêt public général et le démantèlement de secteurs entiers au bénéfice des acteurs **privés**.
  Directives on a sectoral basis alone will only result in ‘salami slicing’ of the overall **public** interest and carve out sectors for business benefit.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 857588)

## More sentences

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

- Nous avons été **privés** d’électricité à cause de la tempête.
  We lost our electricity because of the storm.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1293101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1293101) [\#1304717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1304717))

- Merci d'avoir compris le drame de ma patrie, qui comme le dirait Pablo Neruda est celui d’un Vietnam silencieux ; il n’y a pas de troupes d’occupation, ni d’avions puissants obscurcissant le ciel pur de ma terre. Mais nous affrontons un blocus économique, mais nous sommes **privés** de crédits, mais nous ne pouvons acheter de provisions, mais nous n'avons pas de quoi acheter des aliments et les médicaments nous manquent...
  Thanks for understanding the drama of my homeland, which is, like Pablo Neruda would say, a silent Vietnam; there are no occupying troops, nor powerful planes clouding the clean skies of my land, but we're under financial blockade, we have no credit, we can't buy spare parts, we have no means to buy food and we need medicine...
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Malape and marcelostockle · checked, community translation · [\#1327329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1327329) [\#3436861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3436861))

- Ceux qui périssent par l’épée sont plus heureux Que ceux qui périssent par la faim, Qui tombent exténués, **Privés** du fruit des champs.
  Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 4:9)

## Grammar

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