around — English to French

How English around is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: around in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: around (78 219), arounds (6). By style: everyday 1 226 · literary 62 · biblical 363 · parliamentary 7 954 · legal and administrative 7 184 · UN documents 61 436.

environ

Used about 12 084 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 2 154 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 191 · UN documents ≈ 5 689).

• Forests cover around 9.4% of the earth's surface.

  Les forêts recouvrent environ 9,4% de la surface terrestre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and rene1596 · checked, community translation · #681000 #1182768

• That is around 5.5% of the EU's GDP.

  Ce chiffre correspond à environ 5,5 % du PIB de l'UE.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 955116

• Trays of around 250-500 g

  Barquettes de 250-500 g environ

  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 2392546

• There are approximately 1,700 families of them, or around 10,000 altogether in population.

  On dénombre environ 10 000 Chao Lay, formant 1 700 familles.

  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 24285393

• The overall literacy rate is around 55%, and is significantly lower for women than for men.

  Le taux d'alphabétisation global est d'environ 55 %, et il est nettement plus faible chez les femmes que chez les hommes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by The_World_Factbook and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8907425 #10567924

autour

Used about 10 259 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 281 · literary ≈ 48 · biblical ≈ 106 · parliamentary ≈ 663 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 197 · UN documents ≈ 7 964).

• Have a look around you.

  Regardez autour de toi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · #12042995 #7862786

• He seemed to see nothing around him.

  Il semblait ne rien voir autour de lui.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13798

• He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

  Moïse l’égorgea, et répandit le sang sur l’autel tout autour.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 8:19

• The mortality rate for the virus is currently around 72%.

  Le taux de mortalité pour ce virus se situe actuellement autour des 72%.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 652249

• Gross debt is expected to stand at around 88 % of GDP in 2008.

  Le ratio d’endettement brut devrait se situer autour de 88 % du PIB en 2008.

  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 1733401

monde

Used about 10 007 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 829 · UN documents ≈ 9 102).

• She traveled around the world last year.

  Elle a fait le tour du monde l'année dernière.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #313841 #11426711

• Man's greatness resides in his constant desire to know the world around him and to know himself.

  La grandeur de l'homme, c'est sa volonté perpétuelle de connaissance du monde qui l'entoure, mais aussi de lui-même.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1689964

• Lux Mundi is distributed to IAUP members around the world.

  Lux Mundi est distribué aux membres de l ' Association dans le monde entier.

  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 10651411

• I always wanted to make an around the world trip.

  J'ai toujours voulu faire le tour du monde.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by totochka and totochka · checked, community translation · #1040310 #1040309

• If we take account of the effects upon literally millions of people around the world, current policy is scandalous.

  Si nous tenons compte des répercussions qu’elle a sur des millions de personnes dans le monde, la politique actuelle est scandaleuse.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 660368

More sentences

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

• There are a lot of places to see around here.

  Il y a beaucoup d'endroits à voir dans les alentours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and belgavox · checked, community translation · #61582 #1719857

• It will cost around 10,000 yen.

  Cela coûtera à peu près 10 000 yens.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nicokdo · checked, community translation · #42831 #2110449

• I'm very uncomfortable around children.

  Je suis très mal à l'aise avec les enfants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5725402 #11352145

Grammar

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