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# train — French to English

How French *train* 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: train (37 802), traine (16), trains (6 493). By style: everyday 3 132 · literary 46 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 6 529 · legal and administrative 6 064 · UN documents 28 538.

## train

Used about 22 121 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 922 · literary ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 2 760 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 369 · UN documents ≈ 12 044). Forms: train, trains. Meaning: [train in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/train/).

- C'est notre **train**.
  That's our **train**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2251187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251187) [\#7411533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7411533))

- «Le **train**, le **train**! s'écria-t-il.
  “The **train**! the train!” cried he.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2691)

- C' est le même principe pour les **trains** et les camions.
  The same applies to **trains** or trucks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 57890)

- **train**: nom, numéro, etc.;
  **train**: name, number, etc.;
  ([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 1890643)

- Taux de remplissage des **trains**.
  Rate of filling of **trains**.
  ([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 9848868)

## speed

Used about 67 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 67). Meaning: [speed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/speed/).

- Subitement, il nous faut de nouvelles technologies, avec des **trains** à grande vitesse qui rendent peut-être les transports aériens moins intéressants.
  Suddenly we want new technology with high-**speed** railways which perhaps make air transport connections less interesting.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 975734)

## More sentences

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

- J'étais en **train** de manger quand le téléphone a sonné.
  I was eating when the telephone rang.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12088230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12088230) [\#12462493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12462493))

- Prends-tu conscience de ce que tu es en **train** de faire ?
  Do you realize what you're doing?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3730730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3730730) [\#4061800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4061800))

- Tom est en **train** d’écouter son iPod.
  Tom is listening to his iPod.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Danquebec and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3791486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3791486) [\#3794831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3794831))

## 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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