buildings — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: buildings (27 568). By style: everyday 56 · literary 2 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 629 · legal and administrative 6 038 · UN documents 19 840.

bâtiments

Used about 20 930 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 290 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 900 · UN documents ≈ 15 707). 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

• 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

• For warehouses and industrial buildings

  Entrepôts et bâtiments industriels

  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 236325

• (e) Buildings Management Service;

  e) Service des bâtiments;

  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 3451426

immeubles

Used about 2 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 102 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 132 · UN documents ≈ 1 240).

• 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

constructions

Used about 326 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 68 · legal and administrative ≈ 252).

• I don't like buildings.

  Je n'aime pas les constructions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cntrational and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1121367 #1121491

• Thirty years ago, this quarter was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings.

  Il y a trente ans, ce quartier disparaissait sous la rature des constructions nouvelles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9767

• As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!”

  Lorsque Jésus sortit du temple, un de ses disciples lui dit: Maître, regarde quelles pierres, et quelles constructions!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 13:1

• Women consider the smooth flow of the working day more important than the monumental outward appearance of buildings.

  Pour les femmes, l'utilisation pratique est plus importante que les constructions monumentales.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1865554

• Prefabricated buildings of wood

  Constructions préfabriquées en bois

  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 946540

More sentences

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

• Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

  Les grands édifices, comme les grandes montagnes, sont l’ouvrage des siècles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #3416353 #3381951

• There are many famous old buildings in Kyoto.

  Il y a plusieurs édifices anciens célèbres à Kyoto.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Scott · checked, community translation · #19314 #1897285

• Wooden buildings catch fire easily.

  Les édifices en bois prennent facilement feu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #329648 #236639

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