billion — English to French

How English billion is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: billion in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: billion (47 588), billions (2 677). By style: everyday 48 · parliamentary 7 058 · legal and administrative 4 492 · UN documents 38 667.

milliards

Used about 46 052 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · parliamentary ≈ 6 764 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 796 · UN documents ≈ 35 445). Forms: milliard, milliards.

• I have billions of dollars.

  J'ai des milliards de dollars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and guyniv · checked, community translation · #5532320 #5532585

• That comes to almost EUR 3 billion.

  Ça fait presque trois milliards.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1379626

• RWA incl. migration (EUR billion)

  RWA y compris migration (milliards EUR)

  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 2003503

• (in billions of dollars)

  (En milliards de dollars)

  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 24382284

• A billion adults are illiterate.

  Un milliard d'adultes sont analphabètes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3126210 #1614403

euros

Used about 537 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 316). Forms: eur, euros.

• If a billion euros a year are spent subsidising tobacco, then health policy must be worth the same amount.

  Si l’on dépense chaque année un milliard d’euros pour subventionner le tabac, la politique de la santé en vaut bien autant.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 790208

• EUR 0,5 billion received from counterparty A with an initial maturity of 360 days.

  500000000 EUR reçus de la contrepartie A avec une échéance initiale de 360 jours.

  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 3945854

• The losses, estimated at some 1.5 billion EUR, are beyond the means of the Polish Government and insurance companies.

  Les pertes, estimées à quelque 1,5 milliard d'euros, sont au-delà des moyens du gouvernement polonais et des compagnies d'assurance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 929557

• EUR 1 billion in gross notional value for OTC credit derivative contracts;

  1000000000 EUR en valeur notionnelle brute pour les contrats dérivés de crédit de gré à gré;

  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 2881040

• The discharge process should be simplified and rationalised for satellite agencies, which have increased in number (from 8 in 2000 to 20 in 2006) and now represent a total budget of around EUR 1 billion.

  La procédure de décharge devrait être simplifiée et rationalisée pour les agences décentralisées qui sont en augmentation (8 en 2000 à 20 en 2006) et représentent un budget total d'environ 1 milliard d'euros.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1063750

dollars

Used about 403 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 403).

• Disposable personal income, NIPAs (billions of dollars)

  Disposable personal income, NIPAs (billions of dollars)

  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 22708436

environ

Used about 63 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 63).

• On 31 December 2005, the balance sheet total was EUR 57,9 billions with savings deposits of around EUR 18 billion.

  Le total du bilan au 31 décembre 2005 s’élevait à 53 Mrd EUR alors que les dépôts sur les comptes d’épargne représentaient environ 18 Mrd EUR.

  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 1363752

More sentences

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

• Me, me, me. Now picture billions of voices screaming that and you got yourself modern civilization.

  Moi, moi, moi. Maintenant imaginez des millions de voix criant cela et vous avez la civilisation moderne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saeb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #503652 #548574

• We must remember, however, that billions of people on our planet lack the freedom that we enjoy.

  Cependant, nous devons nous rappeler que des millions de personnes sur cette planète restent privées de cette liberté dont nous profitons.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 891628

• Kanbawza Bank also Myanmar Billion Group, Nilayoma Co. Ltd, East Yoma Co. Ltd and agent for London Cigarettes in Shan and Kayah States

  Kanbawza Bank, également Myanmar Billion Group, Nilayoma Co. Ltd, East Yoma Co. Ltd et agent de London Cigarettes dans les États Shan et Kayah

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