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# social — French to English

How French *social* 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: social (350 627), sociale (248 853), sociales (127 061), socials (10), sociaux (171 269). By style: everyday 126 · literary 21 · parliamentary 50 412 · legal and administrative 27 464 · UN documents 819 797.

## social

Used about 816 948 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 46 474 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 602 · UN documents ≈ 746 746). Meaning: [social in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/social/).

- C'est un problème **social**.
  It's a **social** problem.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3214498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214498) [\#3214961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3214961))

- L'unique péril **social**, c'est l'Ombre.
  The only **social** peril is darkness.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15651)

- C'est ça, l'Europe **sociale**.
  That is the true **social** Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1116577)

- Dettes **sociales** et fiscales
  **Social** and tax debts
  ([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 3172996)

- Red de Ecología **Social**
  Red de Ecología **Social** (REDES)
  ([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 3927359)

## council

Used about 264 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 263). Meaning: [council in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/council/).

- Ils habitent dans un logement **social**.
  They live in a **council** house.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by martin9 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#558096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/558096) [\#1537665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1537665))

- Les interventions s'étendent également aux logements **sociaux**, mais uniquement dans des régions qui complètent le projet, et à la rénovation énergétique et à l'embellissement de bâtiments.
  The interventions also extend to **council** housing, but only in relation to areas that complement the project and to the energy renovation and improvement of buildings.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1383863)

## More sentences

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

- C’est un cas **social**.
  He's a loser.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CH · checked, community translation · [\#8476595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8476595) [\#12361155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12361155))

- C'est un cas **social**.
  He's a deadbeat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and CH · checked, community translation · [\#8479966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8479966) [\#14062159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14062159))

- Une voiture chère est un symbole de statut **social**.
  An expensive car is a status symbol.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#241249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241249) [\#8575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8575))

## 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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