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# terrestres — French to English

How French *terrestres* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 7 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: terrestres (26 455). By style: everyday 14 · literary 2 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 478 · legal and administrative 3 009 · UN documents 22 948.

## landmines

Used about 10 647 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 129 · UN documents ≈ 10 518).

- Objet: L'élimination totale des mines **terrestres**, objectif de l'Union européenne
  Subject: EU goal of total elimination of **landmines**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1423437)

- E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/L.4 11 Effets traumatisants des mines **terrestres** antipersonnel
  E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/L.4 11 Injurious effects of anti-personnel **landmines**
  ([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 4034558)

- La commission du développement a d'ores et déjà pris en charge le problème des mines **terrestres**.
  Through the Development Committee we have taken on the issue of **landmines**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1688108)

- Nous tenons à souligner que le Bangladesh a détruit tous ses stocks d &apos; armes et de mines **terrestres**.
  We wish to report that Bangladesh has destroyed all its stockpiles of **landmines**.
  ([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 14873954)

- Renouvelons notre engagement afin d’éradiquer l’horrible impact des mines **terrestres** antipersonnel.
  Let us renew our commitment to overcome the awful impact of anti-personnel **landmines**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 704561)

## land

Used about 5 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 90 · legal and administrative ≈ 313 · UN documents ≈ 5 259). Meaning: [land in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/land/).

- Les éléphants sont les animaux **terrestres** les plus gros du monde.
  Elephants are the world's largest **land** animals.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by THURET and CM · checked, community translation · [\#942741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/942741) [\#3655739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3655739))

- Plusieurs États membres coopèrent avec la Slovaquie et la Pologne pour le contrôle des frontières extérieures **terrestres**.
  Several Member States are working with Slovakia and Poland to police the external **land** borders.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 444112)

- Autres transports **terrestres** urbains et suburbains de voyageurs
  Other urban and suburban passenger **land** transport services
  ([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 3408357)

- contre la pollution due aux activités **terrestres**
  from **Land**-based Activities
  ([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 25206302)

- Les éléphants sont les plus gros animaux **terrestres** vivant actuellement.
  Elephants are the largest **land** animals alive today.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zmoo and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#2184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2184) [\#4008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4008))

## terrestrial

Used about 3 961 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 40 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 006 · UN documents ≈ 1 912). Meaning: [terrestrial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/terrestrial/).

- Les éléphants sont les plus grands animaux **terrestres** vivants.
  Elephants are the largest living **terrestrial** animals.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8930675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8930675) [\#8930723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8930723))

- La lumière n'emporte pas dans l'azur les parfums **terrestres** sans savoir ce qu'elle en fait; la nuit fait des distributions d'essence stellaire aux fleurs endormies.
  The light does not bear away **terrestrial** perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19254)

- Il y a aussi des corps célestes et des corps **terrestres**; mais autre est l’éclat des corps célestes, autre celui des corps **terrestres**.
  There are also celestial bodies and **terrestrial** bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 15:40)

- Pourtant, on investit surtout en Europe dans les réseaux régionaux **terrestres**.
  But in Europe, investments are primarily made in regional **terrestrial** networks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1795335)

- Autres animaux **terrestres** d'élevage
  other farmed **terrestrial** animals
  ([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 4309408)

## ground

Used about 1 705 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 251 · UN documents ≈ 1 434). Meaning: [ground in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ground/).

- Il faut que l'aide soit distribuée par des moyens **terrestres** dans les pus brefs délais.
  As soon as possible that aid needs to be delivered 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 2008739)

- Fonction: commandant des forces **terrestres** de l'IRGC.
  Function: Commander of IRGC **Ground** Forces.
  ([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 2006004)

- Pièces de rechange pour les transports **terrestres**
  **Ground** transportation spare parts
  ([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 23452315)

- Israël s’est également trompé en imaginant que sa seule puissance aérienne suffirait à désorganiser le Hezbollah, alors qu’il aurait fallu renforcer les forces d’intervention **terrestres**.
  Israel also seems to have made the mistake of believing that air power alone was sufficient to dislodge Hizbollah, whereas what was required were more boots 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 848097)

- Véhicules **terrestres** et leurs composants, comme suit:
  **Ground** vehicles and components, as follows:
  ([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 2059799)

## personnel

Used about 488 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 10 · UN documents ≈ 478). Meaning: [personnel in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/personnel/).

- sur les actions en faveur de l'adhésion des acteurs autres que les États à l'interdiction totale des mines **terrestres** antipersonnel.
  on measures to promote an undertaking by non-governmental actors to ban anti-**personnel** mines.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 230405)

- Élimination totale des accidents liés aux mines **terrestres** parmi les membres des missions
  Zero rate of landmine incidents among mission **personnel**
  ([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 14505623)

## animal

Used about 64 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 63). Forms: animal, animals. Meaning: [animal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/animal/).

- Dieu dit: Que la terre produise des animaux vivants selon leur espèce, du bétail, des reptiles et des animaux **terrestres**, selon leur espèce. Et cela fut ainsi.
  God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and **animals** of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 1:24)

- autres produits d’animaux **terrestres**, y compris le lait et les produits laitiers et les œufs et les ovoproduits,
  Other land **animal** products including milk and milk products and eggs and egg products.
  ([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 2660885)

## marine

Used about 10 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 10). Meaning: [marine in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/marine/).

- Dans le même temps, la Commission proposait de fusionner l'action «transports **terrestres**» et l'action «technologie marine», cette fusion s'accompagnant d'une baisse de crédits.
  At the same time, the Commission proposed merging "inland transport' projects and "**marine** technology' projects, this merger being accompanied by a reduction in appropriations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1858976)

## 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 enlevé par des extra-**terrestres**.
  He was abducted by aliens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2297545](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2297545) [\#4717102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4717102))

- Les extra-**terrestres** sont souvent dépeints avec des yeux noirs en amandes.
  Aliens are often depicted with dark, almond-shaped eyes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#562052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/562052) [\#567788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567788))

- Et où sont maintenant passées les extra-**terrestres**, les soucoupes volantes et les armes à rayons laser ?
  And where are the aliens, the flying saucers, and the laser guns?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and marcelostockle · checked, community translation · [\#1404674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1404674) [\#1598100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1598100))

## Grammar

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