distance — English to French

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

What it means: distance in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: distance (26 192), distances (3 691). By style: everyday 159 · literary 39 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 1 578 · legal and administrative 7 347 · UN documents 20 746.

distance

Used about 24 475 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 78 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 342 · UN documents ≈ 16 856). Forms: distance, distances.

• Love overcomes any distance.

  L'amour vainc toute distance.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by helloroto and Rovo · checked, community translation · #9772397 #1472408

• It seemed to him that he was already at an immense distance from life.

  Il lui semblait qu'il était déjà à une distance immense de la vie.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24664

• As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

  Comme il entrait dans un village, dix lépreux vinrent à sa rencontre. Se tenant à distance, ils élevèrent la voix, et dirent:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 17:12

• In many regions, there are long distances to be travelled.

  Dans de nombreuses régions, il faut parcourir de longues distances.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 811321

• visibility and sight distances;

  visibilité et distances de visibilité;

  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 4873044

loin

Used about 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 5 · UN documents ≈ 648).

• He watched from a distance.

  Il regarda de loin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #294123 #131652

• “Have you come from a great distance?” went on the man.

  --Venez-vous de loin? reprit le garçon.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5414

• They seized him and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

  Après avoir saisi Jésus, ils l’emmenèrent, et le conduisirent dans la maison du souverain sacrificateur. Pierre suivait de loin.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:54

• They had travelled long distances, both literally and figuratively, to reach the present session.

  Elles sont venues de loin, au propre comme au figuré, pour être présente à cette session.

  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 24376602

• He stared into the distance.

  Il regarda au loin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and martin9 · checked, community translation · #2301562 #1499562

longues

Used about 216 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 216).

• Women often have to walk long distances to fetch water in communities where access to clean water is lacking.

  Dans les communautés dépourvues de tout accès à une eau salubre, les femmes doivent souvent effectuer de longues heures de marche pour aller chercher de l ' eau.

  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 20292023

More sentences

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

• We can see the island in the distance.

  Nous pouvons voir l'île dans le lointain.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #25800 #1450317

• I live within spitting distance of the underground station.

  J’habite à deux pas du métro.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jismith1989 and gillux · checked, community translation · #3549085 #3543806

• I live within walking distance of school.

  D'où j'habite, on peut se rendre à pied à l'école.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #21599 #951678

Grammar

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