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# villes — French to English

How French *villes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: villes (44 046). By style: everyday 105 · literary 3 · biblical 421 · parliamentary 2 649 · legal and administrative 960 · UN documents 39 908.

## cities

Used about 26 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 395 · parliamentary ≈ 1 380 · legal and administrative ≈ 820 · UN documents ≈ 24 111).

- 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)

## towns

Used about 8 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 773 · legal and administrative ≈ 60 · UN documents ≈ 7 483).

- Les **villes** sont plus grandes que les villages.
  **Towns** are larger than villages.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#277883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277883) [\#583105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/583105))

- Cet exemple, Paris le suit, avec toute la bêtise propre aux **villes** d'esprit.
  Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to intelligent **towns**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27310)

- Dans certains quartiers des grandes **villes**, on enregistre seulement 10 % de familles avec enfants.
  In some parts of our large **towns** only 10 % of families have any children at all.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1665877)

- réunions de citoyens, jumelages, réseaux de **villes** jumelées;
  citizens' meetings, town-twinning, networks of twinned **towns**;
  ([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 3299480)

- 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)

## urban

Used about 1 941 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 276 · UN documents ≈ 1 663). Meaning: [urban in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/urban/).

- 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))

- J'espère que le développement durable dans les **villes** jouera un très grand rôle dans cette stratégie de développement durable de l'Union.
  I hope that sustainable **urban** development will form a vital part of this sustainable development strategy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 136007)

- 3. Les impacts sociaux d &apos; un développement durable des **villes** sur les zones rurales
  3. Social impacts of sustainable **urban** development on rural areas
  ([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 9411339)

- Les bandes de jeunes racistes qui hantent nos **villes** sont une source d'embarras pour la société mais les policiers racistes constituent un danger majeur pour la société.
  Racist **urban** youths are a social embarrassment but racist policemen are a major social hazard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2021575)

- Cet organisme incitera et aidera des professionnels de santé exerçant dans des **villes** à travailler dans des communautés aborigènes isolées
  The agency will attract and support **urban**-based health professionals to work in remote Aboriginal communities.
  ([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 22424903)

## city

Used about 1 785 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 55 · legal and administrative ≈ 60 · UN documents ≈ 1 663). Meaning: [city in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/city/).

- Berlin arrive en tête des grandes **villes** européennes pour la qualité de l'air.
  Berlin has the best air quality of any large European **city**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6035742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6035742) [\#2932005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2932005))

- Monsieur le Président, au bout de quatre ans, nous avons enfin droit à un débat sur le Guide des **villes** européennes.
  Mr President, four years later we are at last having a debate on the European **City** Guides.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1080072)

- Ce manuel contribuera également à améliorer la compréhension mutuelle entre les autorités des ports de croisière et celles des **villes**.
  The manual will also help improve mutual understanding between cruise ports and **city** authorities.
  ([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 4771716)

- Elles sont menées essentiellement par les départements sociaux, qui font partie des bureaux de district des différents districts, des **villes** et de Prague.
  These activities are performed primarily by social departments, which are a component of district, **city** and Prague district offices.
  ([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 7985776)

- Marie préfère le calme d'un petit village, à l'atmosphère stressante des grandes **villes**.
  Mary prefers life in a quiet village to the stressful atmosphere of a big **city**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gorgmah and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12463738](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12463738) [\#3897227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3897227))

## villages

Used about 9 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 9).

- Moïse envoya reconnaître Jaezer; et ils prirent les **villes** de son ressort, et chassèrent les Amoréens qui y étaient.
  Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its **villages**, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 21:32)

## More sentences

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

- Tu établiras des juges et des magistrats dans toutes les **villes** que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne, selon tes tribus; et ils jugeront le peuple avec justice.
  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 16:18)

- Et toi, Bethléhem, terre de Juda, Tu n’es certes pas la moindre entre les principales **villes** de Juda, Car de toi sortira un chef Qui paîtra Israël, mon peuple.
  ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 2:6)

- On a réservé beaucoup plus de moyens au jumelage entre les **villes**: c'est sans doute cela qu'on appelle la «grande politique».
  A great deal more funds were put aside for town twinning: this is undoubtedly what is known as "big politics' .
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1760156)

## 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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