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# terre — French to English

How French *terre* 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: terre (55 444), terres (69 711). By style: everyday 867 · literary 140 · biblical 1 059 · parliamentary 4 039 · legal and administrative 10 713 · UN documents 108 337.

## land

Used about 58 034 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 263 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 294 · parliamentary ≈ 1 641 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 790 · UN documents ≈ 53 040). Meaning: [land in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/land/).

- Il possède beaucoup de **terre**.
  He owns a lot of **land**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#611744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/611744) [\#4556732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4556732))

- Mon oncle, se tournant vers l'ouest, m'indiqua de la main une légère vapeur, une brume, une apparence de **terre** qui dominait la ligne des flots.
  My uncle pointed out to me in the far west a light steam or mist, a semblance of **land**, which bounded the distant horizon of waters.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1365)

- **Terre**, où retentit le cliquetis des armes, Au-delà des fleuves de l’Éthiopie!
  Ah, the **land** of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 18:1)

- Les **terres** cultivables augmenteront de 55 %.
  Cultivable **land** will increase by 55%.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409173)

- Autres cultures de **terres** arables
  Other arable **land** crops
  ([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 5294088)

## earth

Used about 21 187 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 154 · literary ≈ 60 · biblical ≈ 529 · parliamentary ≈ 379 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 009 · UN documents ≈ 18 056). Meaning: [earth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/earth/).

- La **Terre** est une sphère.
  The **Earth** is a sphere.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#8107929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8107929) [\#8107926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8107926))

- --On la portera en **terre**.
  “It will be given to the **earth**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11725)

- Le ciel et la **terre** passeront, mais mes paroles ne passeront point.
  Heaven and **earth** will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 13:31)

- Aujourd'hui, cette **terre** nourricière d'autrefois, nous la regardons avec suspicion.
  What was once our mother **Earth** we now regard with suspicion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 989383)

- **Terres** colorantes, calcinées ou pulvérisées
  **Earth** colours, calcined or powdered
  ([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 69132)

## potatoes

Used about 6 107 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 210 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 339 · UN documents ≈ 4 514).

- Je pèle le céleri et les pommes de **terre**.
  I am peeling the celery and the **potatoes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and wma · checked, community translation · [\#528547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/528547) [\#354530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354530))

- Nous pouvons comparer ce secteur à celui de la pomme de **terre**.
  There is a similar sector, **potatoes**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1656718)

- Préparations et conserves à base de pommes de **terre**
  **Potatoes** prepared or preserved
  ([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 2679703)

- des pommes de **terre** de primeur et de conservation 24-25 mars 2003 2003/6
  Early and Ware **Potatoes** 24-25 March 2003 2003/6
  ([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 12042505)

- As-tu fait cuire les pommes de **terre** en robe des champs ?
  Did you cook the **potatoes** in their jackets?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3703113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3703113) [\#11734742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11734742))

## More sentences

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

- Le ver de **terre** est dans le sol.
  The earthworm is in the ground.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Kevre · checked, community translation · [\#5977801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5977801) [\#9978384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9978384))

- Il y a eu hier un fort tremblement de **terre**.
  There was a strong earthquake yesterday.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10551480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10551480) [\#10712351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10712351))

- La pomme de **terre** est une solanacée.
  The potato is a nightshade.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#10461845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10461845) [\#10461849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10461849))

## 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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