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# suisse — French to English

How French *suisse* 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: suisse (82 428), suisses (5 222). By style: everyday 104 · literary 3 · parliamentary 1 490 · legal and administrative 11 849 · UN documents 74 204.

## switzerland

Used about 38 320 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 580 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 443 · UN documents ≈ 33 237).

- Il est allé en **Suisse**.
  He went to **Switzerland**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JnRouvignac and Zurich899 · checked, community translation · [\#5152248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5152248) [\#432255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/432255))

- En **Suisse**, cet apanagiste des plus riches domaines princiers de France avait vendu un vieux cheval pour manger.
  In **Switzerland**, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had sold an old horse in order to obtain bread.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18171)

- La **Suisse** pose un problème bien plus grave.
  **Switzerland** is a far more serious problem.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1694229)

- **Suisse** — part de marché (en %)
  **Switzerland** – market share in %
  ([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 5384127)

- Président : M. Maurer (**Suisse**)
  Chairman: Mr. Maurer (**Switzerland**)
  ([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 21990852)

## swiss

Used about 34 364 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 878 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 159 · UN documents ≈ 26 281). Meaning: [swiss in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/swiss/).

- Je suis un **Suisse**.
  I'm a **Swiss**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10704060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704060) [\#10704045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704045))

- Il faut le dire aux **Suisses**.
  We must tell the **Swiss** this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1802055)

- Prix de référence intérieur **suisse**
  **Swiss** domestic reference price
  ([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 107460)

- (Millions de francs **suisses**)
  (Millions of **Swiss** francs)
  ([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 1566765)

- Je suis un **Suisse**.
  I am a **Swiss**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10704059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704059) [\#10704045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704045))

## More sentences

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

- En même temps le retentissement intermittent de la hampe ferrée des hallebardes des **suisses**, mourant peu à peu sous les entre-colonnements de la nef, faisait l'effet d'un marteau d'horloge sonnant la dernière heure de la condamnée.
  At the same time, the intermittent clash of the iron butts of the beadles’ halberds, gradually dying away among the columns of the nave, produced the effect of a clock hammer striking the last hour of the condemned.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5767)

- On entendit sonner la hallebarde des **suisses** bariolés, et quelques moments après une longue procession de prêtres en chasubles et de diacres en dalmatiques, qui venait gravement et en psalmodiant vers la condamnée, se développa à sa vue et aux yeux de la foule.
  The halberds of the motley beadles clanked; and, a few moments later, a long procession of priests in chasubles, and deacons in dalmatics, marched gravely towards the condemned girl, as they drawled their song, spread out before her view and that of the crowd.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5734)

- Premièrement la question de la **Suisse**: je m'adresse aux commissaires en me référant, tout comme M. Mulder, à la recommandation 29.
  I address the Commissioners and refer to Recommendation No 29, which Mr Mulder also mentioned.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1694254)

## Grammar

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