both — English to French

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

What it means: both in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: both (376 299), boths (1). By style: everyday 1 014 · literary 82 · biblical 287 · parliamentary 35 322 · legal and administrative 29 573 · UN documents 310 022.

deux

Used about 103 724 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 761 · literary ≈ 60 · biblical ≈ 60 · parliamentary ≈ 13 982 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 938 · UN documents ≈ 75 924).

• They are both good.

  Ils sont bons tous les deux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #325744 #1410448

• Pressure on both sides.

  Scie des deux côtés.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2761

• The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

  L’homme et sa femme étaient tous deux nus, et ils n’en avaient point honte.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 2:25

• I heartily congratulate both of them!

  Félicitations à tous les deux !

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 373950

• The same authority may be responsible for processing both exchanges.

  La même autorité peut être chargée du traitement des deux types d'échanges.

  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 4985475

tant

Used about 65 441 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 6 623 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 848 · UN documents ≈ 56 943).

• It’s a job that few young people still dare to dream of, as it demands both patience and solitude.

  C’est un métier dont peu de jeunes osent encore rêver, tant il demande de patience et de solitude.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by samir_t and samir_t · checked, community translation · #12973143 #12973144

• “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

  Consacre-moi tout premier-né, tout premier-né parmi les enfants d’Israël, tant des hommes que des animaux: il m’appartient.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 13:2

• What Europe needs, though, is wholehearted commitment, both on your part and on that of your country.

  Toutefois, l’Europe a besoin d’un engagement total, tant de votre part que de celle de votre pays.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 696098

• The Italian authorities confirmed that checks were carried out on both ecclesiastical institutions and amateur sports clubs.

  Les autorités italiennes ont confirmé que des contrôles ont été effectués auprès tant des entités ecclésiastiques que des clubs de sport amateur.

  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 2797788

• 24. The fight against international terrorism called for both legal and financial measures.

  La lutte contre le terrorisme international appelle des mesures tant juridiques que financières.

  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 27368994

fois

Used about 52 930 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 148 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 944 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 545 · UN documents ≈ 44 289).

• It's both raining and blowing.

  Il pleut et vente à la fois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eric_vandenburg and GB3 · checked, community translation · #3806582 #6877907

• Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:—

  Fantine, sans changer d'attitude, reprit d'une voix haute et avec un accent tout à la fois impérieux et déchirant:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5702

• In doing so, we help both the candidate countries and the Member States themselves.

  Cela constitue une aide à la fois pour les pays candidats à l'adhésion et pour les États membres eux-mêmes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 96318

• It includes both the effect on propagation and on generation.

  Il comprend à la fois l'effet sur la propagation et la génération du bruit.

  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 3553915

• The questionnaire covers both legal and more general topics.

  Le questionnaire porte à la fois sur des questions juridiques et sur des sujets d ' ordre plus général.

  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 15423778

More sentences

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

• Obviously the teacher can understand both English and French.

  C'est évident, mais le professeur comprend le français et l'anglais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Scott · checked, community translation · #328433 #391202

• Both the French and the English like to drink, but while the latter prefer beer, the former have a weakness for red wine.

  Les Français et les Anglais aiment bien boire, mais ceux-ci préfèrent la bière tandis que ceux-là ont un faible pour le vin rouge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jhomel and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · #5073880 #2142592

• Tom and Mary both like old movies.

  Tom et Marie aiment les vieux films.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · #1491704 #1497426

Grammar

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