complex — English to French

How English complex is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: complex in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: complex (50 444), complexes (997). By style: everyday 84 · literary 1 · parliamentary 4 180 · legal and administrative 4 824 · UN documents 42 352.

complexe

Used about 37 463 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 122 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 724 · UN documents ≈ 29 558). Forms: complexe, complexes.

• This book is complex.

  Ce livre est complexe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #12878277 #8737111

• And, in the first place, to cite only a few leading examples, there certainly are few finer architectural pages than this façade, where, successively and at once, the three portals hollowed out in an arch; the broidered and dentated cordon of the eight and twenty royal niches; the immense central rose window, flanked by its two lateral windows, like a priest by his deacon and subdeacon; the frail and lofty gallery of trefoil arcades, which supports a heavy platform above its fine, slender columns; and lastly, the two black and massive towers with their slate penthouses, harmonious parts of a magnificent whole, superposed in five gigantic stories;—develop themselves before the eye, in a mass and without confusion, with their innumerable details of statuary, carving, and sculpture, joined powerfully to the tranquil grandeur of the whole; a vast symphony in stone, so to speak; the colossal work of one man and one people, all together one and complex, like the Iliads and the Romanceros, whose sister it is; prodigious product of the grouping together of all the forces of an epoch, where, upon each stone, one sees the fancy of the workman disciplined by the genius of the artist start forth in a hundred fashions; a sort of human creation, in a word, powerful and fecund as the divine creation of which it seems to have stolen the double character,—variety, eternity.

  Et d'abord, pour ne citer que quelques exemples capitaux, il est, à coup sûr, peu de plus belles pages architecturales que cette façade où, successivement et à la fois, les trois portails creusés en ogive, le cordon brodé et dentelé des vingt-huit niches royales, l'immense rosace centrale flanquée de ses deux fenêtres latérales comme le prêtre du diacre et du sous-diacre, la haute et frêle galerie d'arcades à trèfle qui porte une lourde plate-forme sur ses fines colonnettes, enfin les deux noires et massives tours avec leurs auvents d'ardoise, parties harmonieuses d'un tout magnifique, superposées en cinq étages gigantesques, se développent à l'oeil, en foule et sans trouble, avec leurs innombrables détails de statuaire, de sculpture et de ciselure, ralliés puissamment à la tranquille grandeur de l'ensemble; vaste symphonie en pierre, pour ainsi dire; oeuvre colossale d'un homme et d'un peuple, tout ensemble une et complexe comme les Iliades et les Romanceros dont elle est soeur; produit prodigieux de la cotisation de toutes les forces d'une époque, où sur chaque pierre on voit saillir en cent façons la fantaisie de l'ouvrier disciplinée par le génie de l'artiste; sorte de création humaine, en un mot, puissante et féconde comme la création divine dont elle semble avoir dérobé le double caractère: variété, éternité.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1694

• It is a complex process.

  Il s’agit d’un processus complexe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 680328

• lock: whole lock complex

  écluse: le complexe éclusier tout entier

  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 4752998

• The Abu Kamal complex

  Complexe d ' Abou Kamal

  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 25539213

More sentences

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

• History is more complex than you think.

  L'Histoire est plus compliquée que vous ne pensez.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1815734 #1816002

• The truth is too simple, one can only go there by way of the complex.

  Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #885370 #885369

• The savage life is so simple, and our societies are such complex machinery!

  La vie sauvage est si simple, et nos sociétés sont des machines si compliquées !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #870192 #865606

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