chinese — English to French

How English chinese is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: chinese in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: chinese (42 723), chineses (2). By style: everyday 335 · literary 4 · parliamentary 2 652 · legal and administrative 11 720 · UN documents 28 014.

chinois

Used about 24 232 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 321 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 376 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 767 · UN documents ≈ 11 766). Forms: chinois, chinoise, chinoises.

• My wife is Chinese.

  Ma femme est chinoise.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and chtof · checked, community translation · #250912 #433243

• It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese.

  Il lui sembla que Courfeyrac parlait chinois.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22676

• Even they are Chinese.

  Même elles sont chinoises.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 797589

• Cooperating Chinese exporting producers

  Producteurs-exportateurs chinois ayant coopéré

  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 2120717

• Thursday, 29 October, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Chinese

  Jeudi 29 octobre de 10 à 13 heures : chinois

  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 21253897

chine

Used about 17 942 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 465 · UN documents ≈ 16 248). Forms: chine, chinese.

• You study Chinese history.

  Vous étudiez l'Histoire de la Chine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fishda and jonr · checked, community translation · #20114 #1588606

• The Chinese seas are usually boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes; and it was now early November.

  Elles sont généralement mauvaises, ces mers de la Chine, exposées à des coups de vent terribles, principalement pendant les équinoxes, et on était encore aux premiers jours de novembre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1630

• The now isolated Chinese regime is becoming ever more brutal.

  Le régime actuellement isolé de la Chine est de plus en plus brutal.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1655963

• Chinese cabbages/pe-tsai

  Choux de Chine/Petsaï

  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 3917225

• www.un.org/chinese/sc

  www.un.org/chinese/sc

  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 24961588

More sentences

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

• I study Chinese in Beijing.

  J'étudie le mandarin, à Pékin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #844673 #3600205

• The problem is not only that we do not know the Mandarin Chinese language, but that they know the English and European languages much better - this is an enormous asymmetry.

  Nous sommes non seulement confrontés au problème que constitue l'ignorance du mandarin, mais également au fait qu'ils connaissent l'anglais et les langues européennes nettement mieux que nous.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 950259

• Plums (Damson, greengage, mirabelle, sloe, red date/Chinese date/Chinese jujube (Ziziphus zizyphus))

  Prunes [prunes de Damas, reines-claudes, mirabelles, prunelles, jujubes communs/jujubes d'Inde (Ziziphus zizyphus)]

  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 3399203

Grammar

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