Example sentences for: enfants

How can you use “enfants” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • However, the short phrase Au revoir les enfants would resist translation even if it were desirable to put it into English.

  • William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.

  • If a young economist should show even a simulacrum of old-fashioned star quality, he is likely to be deluged with offers, but for the most part the race for academic prestige has become a game of musical chairs in which everyone still wants the same old enfants terribles , and there are not enough of them to go around.

  • One does not sing, “Allons, les enfants de la patrie.

  • “Ici, en France, n'importe qui a le droit de jumbo frank-furter . Mais on n'a pas le droit d'apprendre aux enfants que, l'époque de Rabelais, les gens auraient jumbo frankfurter . Pas de question, Pepe.”


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