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# sous — French to English

How French *sous* 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: sous (804 238). By style: everyday 1 136 · literary 339 · biblical 405 · parliamentary 25 761 · legal and administrative 140 397 · UN documents 636 200.

## under

Used about 165 719 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 568 · literary ≈ 162 · biblical ≈ 219 · parliamentary ≈ 5 904 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 324 · UN documents ≈ 132 542). Meaning: [under in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/under/).

- C'est quoi **sous** ton lit ?
  What's that **under** your bed?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and megamanenm · checked, community translation · [\#10784143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10784143) [\#10784147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10784147))

- --Le caveau **sous** l'autel!
  “The vault **under** the altar?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11565)

- Que sa main gauche soit **sous** ma tête, Et que sa droite m’embrasse!
  His left hand is **under** my head. His right hand embraces me.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 2:6)

- Naturellement, cela mettrait les entreprises **sous** pression à notre grand dam.
  That would, of course, put companies **under** financial strain and disadvantage us.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 981292)

- \[notifiée **sous** le numéro C(2013) 8667\]
  (notified **under** document C(2013) 8667)
  ([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 2832555)

## More sentences

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

- Un vélo rouille, si tu le laisses **sous** la pluie.
  A bicycle will rust if you leave it in the rain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#26727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26727) [\#459041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/459041))

- J'ai **sous**-estimé la force de mon adversaire.
  I've underestimated the strength of my opponent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6967231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6967231) [\#545321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545321))

- Comparaît le défendeur, Tom, assigné à tort **sous** le prénom de Thomas, et soumet la présente requête au Tribunal.
  Comes now the Defendant, Tom, incorrectly sued as Thomas, and submits this motion to the Court.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13915339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13915339) [\#13915347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13915347))

## 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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