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# prostitution — French to English

How French *prostitution* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: prostitution (37 866), prostitutions (31). By style: everyday 5 · literary 4 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 665 · legal and administrative 26 · UN documents 37 158.

## prostitution

Used about 35 169 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 651 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 · UN documents ≈ 34 456).

- Marie se tourna vers la **prostitution**.
  Mary turned to **prostitution**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#4629645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4629645) [\#4629678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4629678))

- --Fille bohème, reprit le président, vous avez avoué tous vos faits de magie, de **prostitution** et d'assassinat sur Phoebus de Châteaupers?»
  “Bohemian girl,” the president continued, “have you avowed all your deeds of magic, **prostitution**, and assassination on Phœbus de Châteaupers.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5096)

- La **prostitution**, le vin et le moût, font perdre le sens.
  **Prostitution**, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 4:11)

- La condamnation de la **prostitution** forcée est véhémente.
  Conviction of forced **prostitution** is vehement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1091556)

- Traite des mineurs à des fins d’exploitation de leur **prostitution** ou d’autres formes d’exploitation sexuelle
  Trafficking in human beings for the purposes of the exploitation of the **prostitution** of minors or other forms of their sexual exploitation
  ([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 1669407)

## pornography

Used about 676 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 676).

- la **prostitution** des enfants, et la pornographie mettant en scène des enfants 68
  **pornography**, as at 29 March 2004 78
  ([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 11466617)

## sexual

Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [sexual in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sexual/).

- Cette femme était vêtue de pourpre et d’écarlate, et parée d’or, de pierres précieuses et de perles. Elle tenait dans sa main une coupe d’or, remplie d’abominations et des impuretés de sa **prostitution**.
  The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the **sexual** immorality of the earth.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 17:4)

## More sentences

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

- A peine ont-ils cessé de boire Qu’ils se livrent à la **prostitution**; Leurs chefs sont avides d’ignominie.
  Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 4:18)

- Joram fit même des hauts lieux dans les montagnes de Juda; il poussa les habitants de Jérusalem à la **prostitution**, et il séduisit Juda.
  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 21:11)

- tu t’es bâti des maisons de **prostitution**, tu t’es fait des hauts lieux dans toutes les places;
  “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:24)

## Grammar

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