English-French translations for herd

  • troupeau
    Si l'un des animaux contracte la maladie, pourquoi faut-il abattre tout le troupeau ? If one of those animals gets a disease, why kill the whole herd? Lorsqu' une vache semble être contaminée, c' est tout le troupeau qui est abattu. If one cow appears to be infected, the entire herd is slaughtered. Enfin, abattre la totalité du troupeau en cas d'infection d'un sujet. Finally, the whole herd must be slaughtered if one beast is found to be infected.
  • berger
    L’autre jour, un berger m’a dit: «Vingt-cinq pour cent de mon cheptel sera envoyé à l’abattoir cette année. The other day, a shepherd told me, ‘twenty-five per cent of my livestock will be going to the slaughterhouse this year. Le premier mai, j'étais en voyage de détente en Macédoine, où j'ai rencontré un berger macédonien âgé, avec lequel je me suis entretenu pour parler de pensions. Now then, on 1 May, I was on a pleasure trip to Macedonia, where I met an elderly Macedonian shepherd whom I stopped to talk to about pensions. Prétendre mettre en concurrence le paysan tchadien avec le farmer du Minnesota, ou le berger des Andes avec le paysan latifundiaire de Nouvelle-Zélande, n'a simplement pas de sens. It makes no sense at all to attempt to pit a peasant farmer in Chad against a farmer in Minnesota or an Andean shepherd against a large New Zealand landowner .
  • pâtre
  • rassembler
    Il n'a probablement pas été facile de tous nous rassembler - tel un troupeau de moutons - mais vous l'avez fait. It was probably not easy to get us all together - like herding sheep - but you did.
  • troupe

Definition of herd

  • A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
  • Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
  • A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
  • To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company
  • To unite or associate in a herd
  • To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company
  • Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman
  • To act as a herdsman or a shepherd

Examples

  • Sheep herd on many hills.
  • He is employed to herd the goats.
  • I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.

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