either — English to French

How English either is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: either in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: either (112 300). By style: everyday 348 · literary 28 · biblical 33 · parliamentary 8 395 · legal and administrative 25 422 · UN documents 78 074.

ou

Used about 57 137 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 2 099 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 300 · UN documents ≈ 40 664).

• Either emperor, or nothing.

  Ou empereur, ou rien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · #11763001 #11762997

• In either case, good fire or good bed, that straw pallet is a gift from heaven.

  Dans les deux cas, bon feu ou bon lit, la paillasse est un présent du ciel.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1133

• Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

  Or, tous les Athéniens et les étrangers demeurant à Athènes ne passaient leur temps qu’à dire ou à écouter des nouvelles.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 17:21

• Either a standard is safe or it is not.

  Une norme est sûre ou elle ne l'est pas.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 145675

• have either a constant or fluctuating NAV.

  ils ont une VNI constante ou fluctuante.

  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 2427412

soit

Used about 24 873 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 525 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 767 · UN documents ≈ 19 519).

• He's either crazy or on drugs.

  Il est soit fou, soit drogué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2753329 #4995235

• In the morning he meditated for an hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own house.

  Le matin il se recueillait pendant une heure, puis il disait sa messe, soit à la cathédrale, soit dans son oratoire.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 272

• “Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

  Demande en ta faveur un signe à l’Éternel, ton Dieu; demande-le, soit dans les lieux bas, soit dans les lieux élevés.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 7:11

• Either you are very famous or your correspondents feel very strongly about the matter on which they write.

  Soit on est très célèbre, soit l'objet de la correspondance est très important.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 71639

• either [with 55 °C for 2 278 seconds.]

  soit [à 55 °C pendant 2 278 secondes,]

  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 5009608

peut

Used about 5 864 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 4 237 · UN documents ≈ 1 627).

• The authority may then either:

  Ce service peut alors:

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• The department may then either:

  Ce service peut alors:

  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 24789101

• At the manufacturer's choice the test may be performed as, either

  Au choix du constructeur, l'essai peut prendre l'une des formes suivantes:

  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 5537228

• The appeal fee shall only be reimbursed by order of either of the following:

  Le remboursement de la taxe de recours ne peut être ordonné que par l'une des instances suivantes:

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• Either the Union or Iceland may terminate this Agreement by notifying the other Party of its decision.

  L'Union ou l'Islande peut dénoncer le présent accord en notifiant sa décision à l'autre partie.

  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 296694

ni

Used about 5 444 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 525 · UN documents ≈ 4 880).

• I don't drink either coffee or tea.

  Je ne bois ni café ni thé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #6825676 #8913722

• "Nor you either, Axel," he added.

  —Ni toi, non plus, Axel, reprit-il.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 179

• God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

  Mais Dieu apparut la nuit en songe à Laban, l’Araméen, et lui dit: Garde-toi de parler à Jacob ni en bien ni en mal!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 31:24

• The Council had good intentions on the part of the Swedish Presidency, but it was not possible either legally or technically.

  Le Conseil avait de bonnes intentions de la part de la Présidence suédoise, mais elles n'étaient possibles ni légalement, ni techniquement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1329298

• " does not fully represent either the character or the needs of our globalized world " . (A/52/2000, para. 44)

  < < sa composition ne correspond plus exactement aux caractéristiques ni aux besoins de notre monde planétaire > > (A/54/2000, par. 44).

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ne

Used about 5 060 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 102 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 798 · legal and administrative ≈ 530 · UN documents ≈ 1 627).

• You didn't know either.

  Tu ne savais pas non plus.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Josephlingo and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · #12886077 #12019313

• “In good faith,” responded Gringoire, “I don’t know either.”

  --En bonne foi, répondit Gringoire, je ne sais pas non plus.»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1595

• They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

  Ils revinrent l’annoncer aux autres, qui ne les crurent pas non plus.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 16:13

• The European Union, however, is not entirely in the clear either.

  Mais l'Union européenne ne se dédouane pas pour autant.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 487112

• In addition, one of the groups of companies did not fulfil criterion 3 either.

  De surcroît, l’un des groupes de sociétés ne remplissait pas non plus le troisième critère.

  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 1504115

More sentences

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

• You're no saint, either.

  Tu n’es pas non plus une sainte.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ_Saidez and felix63 · checked, community translation · #9632999 #9671054

• I do not like either of them.

  Je n'aime aucun des deux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and qdii · checked, community translation · #325745 #621383

• Tom says we can park on either side of the street.

  Tom a dit que nous pouvons garer notre voiture sur l'un des deux côtés de la rue.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and tras · checked, community translation · #1024204 #7640425

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