city — English to French

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

What it means: city in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cities (31 399), city (54 550). By style: everyday 968 · literary 41 · biblical 1 117 · parliamentary 3 890 · legal and administrative 5 023 · UN documents 74 910.

ville

Used about 57 802 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 928 · literary ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 1 082 · parliamentary ≈ 3 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 401 · UN documents ≈ 49 160). Forms: ville, villes.

• I love your city.

  J'aime votre ville.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · #2131113 #1908921

• The city seemed to be aroused.

  La ville semblait s'être émue.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7287

• Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

  Le matin, en retournant à la ville, il eut faim.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 21:18

• Let us imagine a city with no police.

  Imaginons une ville sans policiers.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 933559

• Huadu District of Guangzhou City,

  district de Huadu de la ville de Guangzhou,

  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 4618178

city

Used about 10 801 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 81 · legal and administrative ≈ 576 · UN documents ≈ 10 144).

• In Vilnius we do not have a City, so our actions are different.

  À Vilnius, nous n'avons pas de City, et nos actions sont donc différentes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1142425

• and Myodaw (City) Club Ltd.

  and Myodaw (City) Club Ltd

  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 1992216

• Association of the Bar of the City of New York

  Association of the Bar of the City of New York

  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 29625926

• Its false closure in Sun City (South Africa) with a partial agreement means that clashes and, in the extreme, massacres such as that in Kisangani, are continuing.

  Sa fausse clôture à Sun City (Afrique du Sud) sur un accord partiel implique la continuation des affrontements et, dans des cas extrêmes, de massacres comme celui de Kisangani.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 341440

• Guangxi Province Beiliu City Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd

  Guangxi Province Beiliu City Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd.

  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 4992002

grandes

Used about 873 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 780).

• Large quantities of polonium, a highly radioactive substance from the Russian nuclear cities, are misappropriated, transported all over Europe, and no one knows how it can have happened.

  De grandes quantités de cette substance hautement radioactive sont détournées des complexes nucléaires russes, transportées partout en Europe, et nul ne sait comment cela a pu se faire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 898440

• The monitoring system should include at least wastewaters from large cities with over 150000 inhabitants, preferably with a minimum sampling frequency of two samples per week.

  Il devrait s’appliquer au moins aux eaux usées des grandes agglomérations de plus de 150000 habitants et prévoir, de préférence, une fréquence minimale d’échantillonnage de deux échantillons par semaine.

  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 5349862

• The headquarters of major telecommunications companies are also situated in the International City.

  Les grandes compagnies de télécommunication ont elles aussi leur siège dans la Cité internationale.

  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 2584878

More sentences

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

• I have a friend at City Hall.

  J'ai un ami à la mairie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1970114 #2137652

• Passengers are packed in like sardines on city buses.

  Les passagers sont serrés comme des sardines dans les autobus urbains.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #246119 #429712

• The flats were built by the city council.

  Les appartements ont été construits par la municipalité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #10055250 #12037868

Grammar

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