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# provinces — French to English

How French *provinces* 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: provinces (24 606). By style: everyday 6 · literary 1 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 230 · legal and administrative 1 078 · UN documents 23 263.

## provinces

Used about 19 694 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 187 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 056 · UN documents ≈ 18 417).

- Combien de **provinces** compte le Canada ?
  How many **provinces** does Canada have?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1820599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1820599) [\#7368188](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7368188))

- Il dut croire que son voleur, s'arrêtant à une des stations du Peninsular-railway, s'était réfugié dans les **provinces** septentrionales.
  He made up his mind that the robber had stopped somewhere on the route and taken refuge in the southern **provinces**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1102)

- Lorsque les serviteurs des chefs des **provinces** et l’armée qui les suivait furent sortis de la ville,
  So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the **provinces**, and the army which followed them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 20:19)

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Je fais tout particulièrement allusion au système autrichien qui réglemente le problème de l'élimination des déchets des **provinces** et des municipalités.
  I would draw your attention to the Austrian system, whereby the Länder and the local authorities are responsible for waste disposal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1651715)

- Les autorités régionales et locales en Finlande souhaitent d'ailleurs que le pouvoir de décision en matière de financement communautaire soit délégué aux régions et **provinces**.
  In Finland the regional and local authorities in fact hope that the decision-making power on EU funds will be transferred to local authorities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1719770)

- Quand est-ce que le gouvernement mettra un terme à la répression qui sévit dans les **provinces** de Timor-Oriental, d'Atjeh et de l'Irian Jaya?
  When will the repressive measures in areas such as East Timor, Aceh and Irian Jaya be stopped?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1943856)

## Grammar

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