difference — English to French

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

What it means: difference in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: difference (31 797), differences (42 211). By style: everyday 328 · literary 11 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 7 456 · legal and administrative 14 132 · UN documents 52 078.

différence

Used about 51 527 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 308 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 5 204 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 746 · UN documents ≈ 35 261). Forms: différence, différences.

• That's the difference.

  C'est la différence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2251265 #6318319

• There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the tenderness of a mother.

  Là du reste était la différence entre sa tendresse et la tendresse d'une mère.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19400

• They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  Ils enseigneront à mon peuple à distinguer ce qui est saint de ce qui est profane, ils lui feront connaître la différence entre ce qui est impur et ce qui est pur.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 44:23

• That is the difference.

  C’est la différence.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 511347

• Difference in constant 2004 prices

  Différence à prix constants de 2004

  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 2478178

entre

Used about 2 352 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 233 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 030 · UN documents ≈ 1 085).

• There is a world of difference between, "somehow being understood" and "using correct English."

  Il y a un monde entre « se faire comprendre » et « avoir un anglais correct. »

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Aiji · checked, community translation · #328473 #136347

• As regards the path towards that aim, however, there is a difference of opinion between the Council and Parliament.

  Mais on observe une divergence d'opinions entre le Conseil et le Parlement quant à la voie à suivre pour atteindre cet objectif.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 480146

• a difference in transverse braking pressures on any axle:

  un écart entre les prescriptions de freinage des extrémités de tout essieu:

  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 5472128

• We are discouraged by the fact that it is on this core element that substantive differences among the delegations still remain.

  Malheureusement, c ' est justement sur ce point essentiel que des divergences fondamentales entre délégations persistent.

  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 4612363

• The only difference of opinion between the Council and the Committee on Transport and Tourism concerns seat arrangements.

  La seule divergence d’opinion entre le Conseil et la commission des transports et du tourisme concerne la manière dont les sièges sont disposés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 681521

More sentences

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

• I know I can make a difference.

  Je sais que je peux changer les choses.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #7520299 #11732943

• What's the difference between snails and slugs?

  Comment différencier l'escargot de la limace ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and BilalBouy · checked, community translation · #12258307 #9726431

• We have our differences.

  Nous avons nos divergences.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #2545693 #3968079

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