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# société — French to English

How French *société* 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: société (312 593), sociétée (2), sociétés (94 522). By style: everyday 307 · literary 25 · parliamentary 22 732 · legal and administrative 57 040 · UN documents 327 013.

## society

Used about 224 565 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 116 · literary ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 12 787 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 753 · UN documents ≈ 206 886). Forms: societies, society. Meaning: [society in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/society/).

- Nous vivons en **société**.
  We live in a **society**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#7958052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7958052) [\#8364225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8364225))

- Éclairez la **société** en dessous.
  Light up **society** from below.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15772)

- Ce sont des problèmes de **société**.
  These are problems for **society**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 323260)

- LES PARTICULIERS, LES MÉNAGES ET LA **SOCIÉTÉ** DE L’INFORMATION
  INDIVIDUALS, HOUSEHOLDS AND THE INFORMATION **SOCIETY**
  ([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 2432220)

- B. La militarisation de la **société** guatémaltèque
  B. The militarization of Guatemalan **society**
  ([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 1157597)

## company

Used about 92 821 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 144 · parliamentary ≈ 7 341 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 621 · UN documents ≈ 46 716). Forms: companies, company. Meaning: [company in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/company/).

- Je veux travailler dans une **société**.
  I want to work in a **company**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Kenji75018 and Jesse · checked, community translation · [\#3595057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3595057) [\#6584323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6584323))

- Objet: **Sociétés** de location de voitures
  Subject: Car rental **companies**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1306440)

- **Sociétés** citées dans l’annexe
  **Companies** listed in the Annex
  ([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 2922933)

- Source: Secrétariat de la CNUCED, sur la base de communiqués de presse des **sociétés**.
  Source: UNCTAD secretariat based on **company** press releases.
  ([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 21473365)

- Je suis actionnaire de cette **société**.
  I'm a stockholder in this **company**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3183591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3183591) [\#11227974](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11227974))

## civil

Used about 237 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 237). Meaning: [civil in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/civil/).

- Une telle obligation ne peut être imposée qu'à des agences gouvernementales, et non à des organisations de la **société** civile.
  Such a duty can only be imposed upon an agency and should not be placed on a **civil** organisation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1121950)

## More sentences

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

- La famille d'Elon Musk posséda une **société** minière d'émeraudes en Zambie.
  Elon Musk's family owned an emerald mining operation in Zambia.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#11257942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11257942) [\#12380350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12380350))

- Pendant les soirées jeux, nous aimons jouer à des jeux de **société**.
  During game nights, we like to play board games.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14022890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14022890) [\#14022888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14022888))

- Quel est ton jeux de **société** préféré ?
  What's your favorite board game?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bpeel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#906697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/906697) [\#8191304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8191304))

## 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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