adults — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: adults (22 170). By style: everyday 50 · parliamentary 569 · legal and administrative 498 · UN documents 21 053.

adultes

Used about 21 685 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · parliamentary ≈ 545 · legal and administrative ≈ 477 · UN documents ≈ 20 614).

• We're adults.

  Nous sommes des adultes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2107331 #4775622

• The risks are greater among children than adults.

  Les risques sont plus marqués chez les enfants que chez les adultes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 581232

• 75 mg/day for adults

  75 mg/jour pour les adultes

  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 4460918

• Are children ever detained among adults?

  Les enfants sontils détenus parmi les adultes?

  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 20417852

• Now we're adults.

  Nous sommes désormais adultes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ravensfeather and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #9821018 #9821023

chez

Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10).

• To set up limit values, estimated food intakes for adults were used as a basis.

  Les valeurs limites ont été fixées sur la base de la consommation d’aliments estimée chez l’adulte.

  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 2497085

More sentences

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

• Adults never understand anything on their own.

  Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #8984629 #8984597

• About 65% of American adults are overweight, which isn't good for their health.

  À peu près 65% des Américains sont en surpoids, ce qui n'est pas bon pour leur santé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and Scott · checked, community translation · #681152 #1168738

• In Hungary today, for example, only one in every four adults uses the Internet regularly.

  Ainsi, en Hongrie, aujourd’hui, seul un adulte sur quatre utilise régulièrement l’internet.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 695120

Grammar

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