above — English to French
How English above is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.
What it means: above in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: above (273 418), aboves (1). By style: everyday 199 · literary 79 · biblical 164 · parliamentary 11 053 · legal and administrative 45 022 · UN documents 216 902.
dessus
Used about 111 238 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 129 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 65 · parliamentary ≈ 1 842 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 635 · UN documents ≈ 88 531).
My room is just above.
Ma chambre est juste au-dessus.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by allasobirova and Archibald · checked, community translation · #4127474 #7636Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl.
Gavroche leva le nez par-dessus son châle.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20537The LORD is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
L’Éternel est grand dans Sion, Il est élevé au-dessus de tous les peuples.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 99:2I welcome the report, even if some of the above proposals fell.
Je me félicite de ce rapport, même si certaines des propositions mentionnées ci-dessus ont été abandonnées.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 775929Purchase of debt above the market value
Acquisition d'une dette au-dessus de la valeur marchande
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 2943657
haut
Used about 10 797 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 51 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 876 · UN documents ≈ 8 853).
All good things come from above.
Toutes les bonnes choses viennent d'en haut.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3731357 #3940659The English army was stationed above, the French army below.
L'armée anglaise était en haut, l'armée française en bas.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6909Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
Il commanda aux nuages d’en haut, Et il ouvrit les portes des cieux;
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:23The regime considered in this decision is confined to the above mentioned amount of 10000 slots.
Le régime considéré dans la présente décision se limite au nombre de 10000 créneaux horaires mentionné plus haut.
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 4842420The exhaust backpressure or restriction shall follow the same criteria as above, and may be set with a valve.
La contre-pression ou la restriction à l ' échappement doit satisfaire aux critères énoncés plus haut, et elle peut être réglable au moyen d ' une soupape.
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 29817412
ci
Used about 4 428 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 4 427).
The greater part of these privileges, it may be noted in passing, and there were some even better than the above, had been extorted from the kings by revolts and mutinies.
(La plupart de ces privilèges, pour le noter en passant, et il y en avait de meilleurs que celui-ci, avaient été extorqués aux rois par révoltes et mutineries.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1838The following summarizes the actions taken during the period January to May 2010 to implement the above General Conference decision:
8. Les mesures prises de janvier à mai 2010 pour mettre en œuvre la décision susmentionnée de la Conférence générale sont résumées ci-après:
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 23029581
surtout
Used about 4 156 times in the texts (literary ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 4 145).
His father, above all, amazed his eyes and his mind.
Son père, surtout, étonnait son oeil et sa pensée.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1272However, it is, above all, an equality problem.
Cependant, il s'agit surtout d'un problème d'égalité.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1310342“Above all,” said he; “don’t let me lose the steamer.”
«Surtout, dit-il, que je prenne bien garde de ne pas manquer le bateau!
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 429Above all, we must also take action outside our own borders.
Surtout, nous devons également agir au-delà de nos propres frontières.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1407019“Above all things, don’t lose the letter! remember that you carry two hundred thousand francs with you!”
--Surtout ne perds pas la lettre! songe que tu as deux cent mille francs sur toi.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17643
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
A draw is the most frequent result of closed matches, in which each player seeks, above all, to restrict the opponent's actions.
L'égalité est le résultat le plus fréquent des matchs fermés, dans lesquels chaque joueur cherche avant tout à restreindre les actions de l'adversaire.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #9984701 #9984860We live about three miles above this bridge.
Nous vivons environ trois milles au-delà de ce pont.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · #262731 #2160573I'm above telling lies.
Je ne suis pas homme à dire des mensonges.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Cocorico · checked, community translation · #256143 #6809
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