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# trait — French to English

How French *trait* 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: trait (52 876), traite (122 102), traites (573), traits (1 922). By style: everyday 164 · literary 7 · biblical 62 · parliamentary 6 696 · legal and administrative 5 995 · UN documents 164 549.

## trafficking

Used about 32 735 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 744 · legal and administrative ≈ 281 · UN documents ≈ 31 710).

- Les femmes et les enfants sont les principales victimes de la **traite** des êtres humains.
  in writing. - Women and children are the principal victims of human **trafficking**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1327438)

- prévenir et combattre la **traite** des personnes, et
  to prevent and combat **trafficking** in persons; and
  ([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 824506)

- A. **Traite** des personnes et trafic de migrants
  A. Human **trafficking** and smuggling of migrants
  ([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 19235852)

- Le premier concerne l'octroi automatique du statut de réfugié aux victimes de la **traite** des femmes.
  The first concerns automatic refugee status for victims of **trafficking** in women.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 55254)

- **Traite** des mineurs en vue de l’exploitation du travail ou du service
  **Trafficking** in human beings for the purposes of labour or services exploitation of a minor
  ([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 1669406)

## features

Used about 10 849 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 525 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 · UN documents ≈ 10 284).

- Ziri avait les **traits** fins.
  Ziri had fine **features**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10315848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10315848) [\#12481992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12481992))

- Et ses **traits** principaux retiennent l'essentiel.
  And its core **features** retain the essentials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1367642)

- RECONNAISSANT la nature spéciale de la diversité biologique agricole, ses **traits** distinctifs et ses problèmes nécessitant des solutions particulières,
  RECOGNIZING the special nature of agricultural biodiversity, its distinctive **features** and problems needing distinctive solutions,
  ([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 119401)

- A. La notion de diligence due : quelques **traits** caractéristiques
  A. The concept of due diligence: some salient **features**
  ([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 5972888)

- Ses **traits** sont très réguliers.
  He has very regular **features**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2266365](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2266365) [\#11914947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11914947))

## More sentences

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

- Il finit son verre d'un **trait**.
  He emptied his glass in one gulp.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tamy and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4425720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4425720) [\#1984769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1984769))

- Avez-vous déjà **trait** une vache ?
  Have you ever milked a cow?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1719234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1719234) [\#7794811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7794811))

- Oh, est-ce que c'est comme ça qu'on **trait** une vache ?
  Ah, so that's how you milk a cow?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#453191](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453191) [\#412040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/412040))

## 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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