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# province — French to English

How French *province* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: province (35 197), provinces (24 606). By style: everyday 21 · literary 4 · biblical 53 · parliamentary 745 · legal and administrative 6 425 · UN documents 52 555.

## province

Used about 53 519 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 53 · parliamentary ≈ 621 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 291 · UN documents ≈ 46 533). Forms: province, provinces, provincial. Meaning: [province in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/province/).

- Où se trouve la **province** de Zhejiang ?
  Where is Zhejiang **Province**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and jan\_OkulaJu · checked, community translation · [\#13953754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953754) [\#13953774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953774))

- M. Félix Tholomyès, resté dans sa **province** et n'ayant jamais vu Paris, serait un de ces hommes-là.
  M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own **province** and never beheld Paris, would have been one of these men.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4186)

- Après cela, le roi fit prospérer Schadrac, Méschac et Abed-Nego, dans la **province** de Babylone.
  Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the **province** of Babylon.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 3:30)

- Les zones les plus prisées sont les **provinces** pauvres.
  The most popular areas are the poor **provinces**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 145124)

- 40 % pour les autres **provinces**.
  40 % for the other **provinces**,
  ([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 535088)

## district

Used about 1 095 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 095). Meaning: [district in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/district/).

- Les membres du Conseil suivent la mise en œuvre du Plan d &apos; action national tant dans la capitale que les **provinces** et les districts.
  Its members monitor implementation of the action plan in the capital and at regional and **district** level throughout the country.
  ([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 24262585)

- :: Monastère historique de Sumela dans le district de Maçka de la **province** de Trabzon les 15 août 2010, 15 août 2011, 15 août 2012 et 15 août 2013;
  The Historical Sumela Monastery in Maçka **district** of Trabzon on 15 August 2010, 15 August 2011, 15 August 2012 and 15 August 2013;
  ([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 29485115)

## More sentences

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

- Ne disons pas de mal des gens de la **province**. Sans eux, nous ne pourrions pas habiter Paris.
  Let's not speak ill of the people from the countryside. Without them, we couldn't live in Paris.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1336137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336137) [\#925942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/925942))

- Il y a dix ans, environ quarante mille filles allaient à l'école dans la **province** de Kounar, mais maintenant ce nombre a atteint soixante-douze mille.
  Ten years ago, around forty thousand girls used to go to school in Kunarr, but now this number has reached to seventy-two thousand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and snn · checked, community translation · [\#5667998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5667998) [\#6813591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6813591))

- Maintenant, lorsque Pharaon vous mandera et dira : « Quelles sont vos occupations ? » vous répondrez : « Tes serviteurs se sont adonnés au bétail depuis leur jeunesse jusqu’à présent et nous et nos pères. » C’est afin que vous demeuriez dans la **province** de Gessen, car les Égyptiens ont en horreur tout pasteur de menu bétail.
  And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#7908993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7908993) [\#8589667](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8589667))

## 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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