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# race — French to English

How French *race* 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: race (25 995), races (2 699). By style: everyday 45 · literary 8 · biblical 69 · parliamentary 489 · legal and administrative 1 780 · UN documents 26 303.

## race

Used about 23 738 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 323 · legal and administrative ≈ 93 · UN documents ≈ 23 289). Forms: race, races. Meaning: [race in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/race/).

- Le judaïsme n'est pas exactement une **race**.
  Judaism isn't exactly a **race**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8149104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8149104) [\#12104789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12104789))

- Il y a nécessairement une certaine quantité d'ancienneté dans une **race**, et la ride des siècles ne s'improvise pas.
  There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in a **race**, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18085)

- Ce roi, usant d’artifice contre notre **race**, maltraita nos pères, au point de leur faire exposer leurs enfants, pour qu’ils ne vécussent pas.
  The same took advantage of our **race** and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 7:19)

- C'est une question de place, et non de **race**.
  It is about space, not **race**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1338006)

- ou \[les Hong Kong International **Races**,\]
  or \[The Hong Kong International **Races**;\]
  ([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 4618566)

## breeds

Used about 2 041 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 83 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 409 · UN documents ≈ 548). Forms: breeding, breeds.

- L'une des occupations du fermier est l'élevage du bétail et les animaux sont minutieusement choisis selon leur **race**.
  Cattle **breeding** is one of the farmer's occupations and the animals are carefully selected according to their breed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#676923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676923) [\#676924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676924))

- Elle compte plusieurs des **races** de bovins et d’ovins les plus connues au monde.
  Scotland has several of the world’s best-known **breeds** of cattle and sheep.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 671776)

- reproducteurs de **race** pure
  Pure-bred **breeding** animals
  ([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 195077)

- Les Corriedale constituent, avec les Mérino, une des plus importantes **races** de mouton élevées dans le monde.
  Corriedale is, along with Merino, one of the most important **breeds** of sheep raised in the world.
  ([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 815719)

- L'Europe est riche de **races** locales : nous devons nous donner les moyens de les protéger en autorisant leur vaccination.
  Europe has a wealth of local **breeds** authorising their vaccination will enable us to protect them.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 178776)

## animals

Used about 75 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 74).

- L'une des occupations du fermier est l'élevage du bétail et les animaux sont minutieusement choisis selon leur **race**.
  Stock-raising is one of the farmer's occupations and the **animals** are carefully selected according to their breed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#676922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676922) [\#676924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676924))

- le nombre d’animaux témoins et traités individuellement ou collectivement avec répartition par espèce, **race** ou souche, âge et sexe;
  the number of control and test **animals** treated either individually or collectively, with a breakdown according to species, breed or strain, age and sex;
  ([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 1736284)

- Projet pilote — Bien-être des bovins laitiers, y compris les mesures visant à protéger les jeunes bovins de **race** laitière non sevrés et les animaux en fin de carrière
  Pilot project — Welfare of dairy cattle, including measures to protect unweaned dairy calves and end-of-career **animals**
  ([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 5054657)

- les animaux que l'organisme de sélection considère comme formant le cheptel de reconstitution de la **race** soient identifiés dans le système qu'ils utilisent pour l'enregistrement des généalogies.
  the **animals** which are considered by that breed society to be the breed's reconstruction stock are identified in the system for recording pedigrees.
  ([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 3998269)

- Directive 91/174/CEE du Conseil du 25 mars 1991 relative aux conditions zootechniques et généalogiques régissant la commercialisation d'animaux de **race** et modifiant les directives 77/504/CEE et 90/425/CEE
  Council Directive 91/174/EEC of 25 March 1991 laying down zootechnical and pedigree requirements for the marketing of pure-bred **animals** and amending Directives 77/504/EEC and 90/425/EEC
  ([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 242455)

## More sentences

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

- Cette **race** d'oiseau construit son nid en été, et migre vers le sud à l'approche de l'hiver.
  Those birds build their nests in the summer and fly to the south in the winter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#67940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67940) [\#1485991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1485991))

- Quelle est la **race** de votre chien ?
  What breed is your dog?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6890425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6890425) [\#8662334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8662334))

- Quelle est la **race** de ce chat ?
  Which breed is this cat?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12808476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12808476) [\#9663685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9663685))

## Grammar

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