eight — English to French

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

What it means: eight in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: eight (47 482), eights (11). By style: everyday 260 · literary 49 · biblical 77 · parliamentary 2 177 · legal and administrative 2 777 · UN documents 42 153.

huit

Used about 37 804 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 239 · literary ≈ 48 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 1 905 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 256 · UN documents ≈ 33 279).

• I have eight brothers.

  J'ai huit frères.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ferka and rafael8243 · checked, community translation · #2775712 #2029177

• It was eight in the evening.

  Il était huit heures du soir.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1902

• The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-eight.

  les fils de Bébaï, six cent vingt-huit;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:16

• There were eight mullahs.

  Les mollahs étaient huit.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755272

• have two, four, six or eight poles;

  ont deux, quatre, six ou huit pôles;

  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 5017281

More sentences

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

• The English lesson started at half past eight.

  Le cours d'anglais commença à 8 h 30.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Archibald · checked, community translation · #12374103 #12081

• He always leaves for work at eight in the morning.

  Il part tout le temps au travail à 8 heures.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · #11994447 #7063868

• By summit, do you mean the Group of Eight?

  Par sommet, voulez-vous dire le G8 ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and verogc · checked, community translation · #328427 #798163

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