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# terrain — French to English

How French *terrain* 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: terrain (88 838), terraine (9), terraines (5), terrains (10 634). By style: everyday 99 · literary 21 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 3 919 · legal and administrative 5 872 · UN documents 89 566.

## land

Used about 30 793 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 627 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 576 · UN documents ≈ 27 559). Meaning: [land in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/land/).

- Une partie de ce **terrain** est à moi.
  A part of this **land** is mine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#57682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57682) [\#11426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11426))

- Le **terrain** vague que ce mur bordait communiquait avec l'arrière-cour d'un ancien loueur de voitures mal famé qui avait fait faillite et qui avait encore quelques vieux berlingots sous des hangars.
  The waste **land** bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16960)

- ce qu’est le **terrain**, s’il est gras ou maigre, s’il y a des arbres ou s’il n’y en a point. Ayez bon courage, et prenez des fruits du pays. C’était le temps des premiers raisins.
  and what the **land** is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 13:20)

- Les populations tamoules sont des populations qui sont propriétaires de **terrains**.
  Tamil people are people who own **land**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1228252)

- Valeur actuelle des **terrains**
  Current value of **land**
  ([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 2275886)

## field

Used about 24 520 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 235 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 019 · UN documents ≈ 23 253). Meaning: [field in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/field/).

- C'est notre **terrain** de baseball.
  That's our baseball **field**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Apex and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9435078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9435078) [\#10608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10608))

- C'est indispensable: les attentes sur le **terrain** à cet égard sont très fortes.
  This is essential: expectations in the **field** in this regard are very high.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1296812)

- Études de **terrain**, deux types de sols
  **Field** studies, two soil types
  ([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 2636384)

- Registre + dénombrement complet sur le **terrain** pour certaines variables
  Register plus full **field** enumeration for selected variables
  ([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 28001256)

- Le **terrain** de football est rectangulaire.
  A soccer **field** is rectangular.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10532133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10532133) [\#8640348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8640348))

## ground

Used about 11 001 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 019 · legal and administrative ≈ 479 · UN documents ≈ 9 473). Meaning: [ground in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ground/).

- Nous gagnons du **terrain**.
  We're gaining **ground**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5752242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5752242) [\#9978142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9978142))

- --Elle aura passé à la nage, répliqua la recluse défendant le **terrain** pied à pied.
  “She swam across,” replied the recluse, defending her **ground** foot by foot.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8632)

- Et Dieu fit ainsi cette nuit-là. La toison seule resta sèche, et tout le **terrain** se couvrit de rosée.
  God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the **ground**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 6:40)

- Cela a déjà eu un impact positif sur le **terrain**.
  This has already had a positive impact on the **ground**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 953836)

- Travaux de construction d'ouvrages pour **terrain** de sports
  Construction work in connection with structures for sports **ground**
  ([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 1494482)

## More sentences

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

- Il a été expulsé du **terrain**.
  He has been sent off the pitch.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8888181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8888181) [\#10777093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10777093))

- La route devant nous est bloquée par un glissement de **terrain**.
  The road up ahead is blocked by a landslide.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6237942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6237942) [\#10375236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10375236))

- Il y a de l'herbe verte sur le **terrain**.
  There's some green grass on the terrain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Minimono and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11615647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11615647) [\#2679763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2679763))

## Grammar

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