about — English to French

How English about is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: about in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: about (414 015), abouts (2). By style: everyday 7 617 · literary 279 · biblical 395 · parliamentary 76 663 · legal and administrative 15 475 · UN documents 313 588.

environ

Used about 67 742 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 159 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 1 597 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 224 · UN documents ≈ 62 718).

• I'd like to borrow about three hundred thousand dollars.

  J'aimerais emprunter environ trois-cent-mille dollars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1936519 #5377503

• “About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget.”

  --Trois quarts d'heure environ avant minuit; n'oubliez pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11689

• About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

  Environ trois heures plus tard, sa femme entra, sans savoir ce qui était arrivé.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:7

• Mr President, Commissioner, I met Akin Birdal about two weeks ago in Turkey.

  Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, j'ai rencontré Akin Birdal il y a environ deux semaines en Turquie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1920690

• The sales volume during the IP was about 4845 tons.

  Pendant la période d’enquête, elle a vendu environ 4845 tonnes de produit similaire.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 754656

informations

Used about 32 180 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 7 093 · UN documents ≈ 25 087).

• Information about in-use performance data

  Informations relatives aux données d’efficacité en service

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 5471605

• 18. Our partners have called for more information about the rights of women in this country.

  Nos partenaires demandent plus d ' informations sur les droits des femmes dans ce pays.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21025754

• Information about the terms governing the future contract.

  Informations sur les conditions régissant le futur marché.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 5016854

• IFTDH disseminates information to its members about UN events, programmes and publications through an internal Newsletter.

  La Fédération diffuse des informations à ses membres au sujet des manifestations, programmes et publications de l ' ONU par le biais d ' un magazine interne.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 12091081

• The disclosure of detailed information about investment property.

  Informations détaillées relatives aux immeubles de placement.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 5307361

More sentences

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

• How about taking a rest?

  Et si on se reposait un peu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gabrielle · checked, community translation · #27831 #7809855

• I didn't think about that.

  Je n'y ai pas réfléchi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #2275943 #8899775

• This is a book about England.

  C'est un livre sur l'Angleterre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #55804 #1716164

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