building — English to French

How English building is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: building in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: building (244 352), buildings (27 568). By style: everyday 448 · literary 21 · biblical 43 · parliamentary 6 969 · legal and administrative 15 063 · UN documents 249 376.

bâtiments

Used about 122 187 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 229 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 3 339 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 904 · UN documents ≈ 111 700). Forms: bâtiment, bâtiments.

• I like old buildings.

  J'aime les vieux bâtiments.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tjwhale and Talwit · checked, community translation · #11035323 #7269515

• “Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?”

  --Est-ce qu'on arrange les bâtiments comme ça à présent!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17951

• So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

  Il mesura la maison, qui avait cent coudées de longueur. La place vide, le bâtiment et ses murs, avaient une longueur de cent coudées.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 41:13

• Listed buildings present particular problems.

  Les bâtiments classés posent des problèmes particuliers.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1461901

• Building and public works

  Bâtiment et travaux publics

  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 4941439

capacités

Used about 54 551 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 54 551).

• Funding and Capacity Building

  Financement et renforcement des capacités

  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 19244959

• Capacity-building under the Kyoto Protocol:

  11. Renforcement des capacités au titre du Protocole de Kyoto:

  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 19324533

• Assistance, capacity-building and public awareness

  Assistance, renforcement des capacités et sensibilisation du public

  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 30227612

• Public policies and institutional capacity-building

  Politiques publiques et renforcement des capacités institutionnelles

  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 19283788

• Activities to promote capacity-building also include:

  Rentrent également dans le cadre du renforcement des capacités, les actions suivantes:

  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 29974532

construction

Used about 10 727 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 726 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 197 · UN documents ≈ 7 793).

• I make the building out of wood.

  Je réalise la construction à partir de bois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cntrational and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1121873 #1123025

• At our left was a huge building that looked like a hospital.

  Il y avait sur notre gauche une vaste construction qui ressemblait à un hôpital.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 717

• Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.

  Voici l’ordre que je donne touchant ce que vous aurez à faire à l’égard de ces anciens des Juifs pour la construction de cette maison de Dieu: les frais, pris sur les biens du roi provenant des tributs de l’autre côté du fleuve, seront exactement payés à ces hommes, afin qu’il n’y ait pas d’interruption.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 6:8

• The focus now is on building the future.

  À présent, l’attention se porte sur la construction du futur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 643454

• Other monumental or building stone

  autres pierres de taille ou de construction

  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 230230

immeubles

Used about 7 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · parliamentary ≈ 218 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 569 · UN documents ≈ 5 195).

• I don't like buildings.

  Je n'aime pas les immeubles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cntrational and Rovo · checked, community translation · #1121367 #1722202

• Today nearly 100 million people live in prefabricated buildings.

  Aujourd'hui, près de 100 millions de personnes vivent dans des immeubles préfabriqués.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1248620

• Security and surveillance of buildings

  Sécurité et surveillance des immeubles

  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 5060768

• Residential buildings in Bab Amr were shelled by tanks and anti-aircraft guns.

  À Bab Amr, des immeubles d ' habitation ont été pilonnés par des chars et des forces antiaériennes.

  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 25702263

• The buildings look so tiny.

  Les immeubles ont l'air si minuscules.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and TRANG · checked, community translation · #239073 #126647

renforcement

Used about 4 385 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 218 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 569 · UN documents ≈ 2 598).

• We know about the commitment of Sweden to the process of building democracy.

  Nous connaissons l'engagement de la Suède vis-à-vis du processus de renforcement de la démocratie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1286153

• Public health capacity building

  Renforcement des capacités en matière de santé publique

  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 1354224

• A key element of the programme ' s success has been engaging local business associations and building their capacity to support medium- and small-sized enterprises.

  Un élément clef de son succès a été l ' intégration des associations professionnelles locales et le renforcement de leur capacité d ' appuyer les petites et moyennes entreprises.

  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 7675194

• I said before that, institution-building, capacity-building, trying to help the legal process, to help the population, is absolutely fundamental.

  J'ai dit auparavant que l'élaboration d'institutions, le renforcement des capacités, les tentatives d'aide au processus juridique et à la population sont absolument fondamentaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1310974

• technical assistance and capacity building, as appropriate.

  l'assistance technique et le renforcement des capacités, s'il y a lieu.

  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 336343

More sentences

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

• This building is very large.

  Cet édifice est très grand.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #59437 #390068

• There's a laundromat in the basement of our apartment building.

  Il y a une laverie dans le sous-sol de notre immeuble.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3316618 #11227748

• You're building castles in the air.

  Tu es en train de tirer des plans sur la comète.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2601426 #11401673

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