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# ville — French to English

How French *ville* 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: ville (45 281), villes (44 046). By style: everyday 1 469 · literary 77 · biblical 1 128 · parliamentary 4 949 · legal and administrative 4 759 · UN documents 76 945.

## cities

Used about 27 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 612 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 552 · parliamentary ≈ 1 354 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 032 · UN documents ≈ 23 244).

- L'air est pollué dans les grandes **villes**.
  Air is polluted in **cities**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#279424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279424) [\#478160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/478160))

- On voyait tout de suite deux longues rues parallèles sans rupture, sans perturbation, presque en ligne droite, qui traversaient à la fois les trois **villes** d'un bout à l'autre, du midi au nord, perpendiculairement à la Seine, les liaient, les mêlaient, infusaient, versaient, transvasaient sans relâche le peuple de l'une dans les murs de l'autre, et des trois n'en faisaient qu'une.
  One immediately perceived three long parallel streets, unbroken, undisturbed, traversing, almost in a straight line, all three **cities**, from one end to the other; from North to South, perpendicularly, to the Seine, which bound them together, mingled them, infused them in each other, poured and transfused the people incessantly, from one to the other, and made one out of the three.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1849)

- Kaïn, Guibea, et Thimna; dix **villes**, et leurs villages.
  Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten **cities** with their villages.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 15:57)

- Je comprends votre point de vue sur les grandes **villes**.
  I understand your point on big **cities**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1354790)

- le développement culturel des **villes**; ou
  the cultural development of **cities**; or
  ([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 3143000)

## city

Used about 23 458 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 444 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 505 · parliamentary ≈ 1 563 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 685 · UN documents ≈ 19 236). Meaning: [city in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/city/).

- Il vit en **ville**.
  He lives in the **city**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and aka\_aj · checked, community translation · [\#1681406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681406) [\#10953991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10953991))

- La **ville** semblait s'être émue.
  The **city** seemed to be aroused.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7287)

- Et il y eut une grande joie dans cette **ville**.
  There was great joy in that **city**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 8:8)

- Ma confiance dans les rouages de cette **ville** a diminué.
  My confidence in the workings of this **city** has gone down.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 852010)

- Prix payé par la **ville**
  Price paid by **city**
  ([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 856449)

## town

Used about 19 694 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 383 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 1 302 · legal and administrative ≈ 347 · UN documents ≈ 17 633). Forms: town, towns. Meaning: [town in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/town/).

- Spa est une **ville** thermale.
  Spa is a spa **town**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1617668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1617668) [\#1618271](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1618271))

- Nouvelle rumeur dans la petite **ville**.
  A fresh excitement in the little **town**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3585)

- Nous n'avons plus assez d'infirmières dans ma **ville**.
  We do not have enough nurses any more in my **town**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039981)

- **Ville**/rue ou village/région
  **Town**/Street or Village/Region
  ([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 1722651)

- j) À l &apos; Organisation des **villes** arabes: USD 63 388.
  Arab **Towns** Organization: USD 63,388.
  ([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 9686733)

## More sentences

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

- Si on la compare à Tokyo, Londres est une petite **ville**.
  In comparison with Tokyo, London is small.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#279731](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279731) [\#393766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/393766))

- Les gaz d'échappement causent une sérieuse pollution des **villes**.
  Gas emissions cause serious pollution in urban areas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#3694548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3694548) [\#997470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/997470))

- Eschthon engendra la maison de Rapha, Paséach, et Thechinna, père de la **ville** de Nachasch. Ce sont là les hommes de Réca.
  Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 4:12)

## 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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