Get to know Enfants better with 8 real example sentences.
Using Enfants
- In the example corpus, enfants often appears in combinations such as: les enfants, des enfants.
Context around Enfants
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Enfants
- In this selection, "enfants" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, les, des, sans, terribles and perdus stand out and add context to how "enfants" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include called les enfants terribles and cité des enfants perdus both. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "enfants" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with enfants
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Au Revoir les Enfants is now streaming on Max. (9 words)
La Libaire des Enfants on the Upper East Side. (9 words)
We finally found our way there – ironically sans enfants – and yes, it is totally worth the effort. (17 words)
Guests will have the opportunity to explore the museum-wide exhibition Artists Choose Parrish, Part I in the galleries; and JR’s Les Enfants d’Ouranos, a 200-foot, site-specific installation on the south façade. (36 words)
But I think it was the combination of Boaz and what, to me, seemed almost like that Jean-Pierre Melville black-and-white movie from a long time ago called Les Enfants Terribles. (33 words)
The children saved were under the responsibility of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, a children’s aid society founded in St Petersburg in 1912. (25 words)
Example sentences (8)
Au Revoir les Enfants is now streaming on Max.
Guests will have the opportunity to explore the museum-wide exhibition Artists Choose Parrish, Part I in the galleries; and JR’s Les Enfants d’Ouranos, a 200-foot, site-specific installation on the south façade.
La Libaire des Enfants on the Upper East Side.
We finally found our way there – ironically sans enfants – and yes, it is totally worth the effort.
But I think it was the combination of Boaz and what, to me, seemed almost like that Jean-Pierre Melville black-and-white movie from a long time ago called Les Enfants Terribles.
The children saved were under the responsibility of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, a children’s aid society founded in St Petersburg in 1912.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet made Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus), both of which featured a distinctly fantastic style.
Marcel Carné 's Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) was filmed during World War II and released in 1945.
Common combinations with enfants
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: