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# service — French to English

How French *service* 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: service (318 182), services (811 057). By style: everyday 333 · literary 29 · biblical 184 · parliamentary 33 219 · legal and administrative 121 552 · UN documents 973 922.

## services

Used about 803 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 163 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 59 · parliamentary ≈ 27 336 · legal and administrative ≈ 96 229 · UN documents ≈ 679 716). Forms: service, services. Meaning: [services in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/services/).

- Ce **service** est gratuit.
  This **service** is free.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10552328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10552328) [\#10552463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10552463))

- Il offrit ses **services**.
  He offered his **services**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2151)

- Lorsque ses jours de **service** furent écoulés, il s’en alla chez lui.
  When the days of his **service** were fulfilled, he departed to his house.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 1:23)

- La part des **services** dans notre économie représente 70%.
  **Services** account for 70% of our economy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 657860)

- Solde des biens et **services**
  Balance on goods and **services**
  ([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 2323529)

## public

Used about 357 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 346). Meaning: [public in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/public/).

- Les **services** administratifs et les institutions devraient solliciter la réaction du public afin d'évaluer et d'améliorer leur niveau de collaboration et d'identifier de nouvelles opportunités de coopération.
  Executive departments and agencies should solicit **public** feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3652775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3652775) [\#3654320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3654320))

- La France tient à maintenir ces activités dans le **service** public.
  France wishes to keep these activities in the **public** sector.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 78461)

- Les **services** administratifs et les institutions devraient tirer parti des nouvelles technologies pour mettre en ligne et aisément disponible pour le public, l'information concernant leurs opérations et leurs décisions.
  Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the **public**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3652763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3652763) [\#3654372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3654372))

- En répondant aux demandes en vertu de la Loi Pour la liberté d'information, les **services** administratifs devraient agir promptement et dans un esprit de coopération, reconnaissant que ces administrations sont au **service** du public.
  In responding to requests under the FOIA, executive branch agencies should act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing that such agencies are servants of the **public**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3652796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3652796) [\#3654309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3654309))

## More sentences

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

- Maintenant je suis en **service**.
  I am on duty now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#241819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241819) [\#8530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8530))

- J'étais en **service**.
  I was on duty.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5852998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5852998) [\#8342434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8342434))

- L'ascenseur est hors **service** aujourd'hui.
  The elevator is out of order today.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#462698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/462698) [\#470423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/470423))

## 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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