equal — English to French

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

What it means: equal in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: equal (138 794), equals (2 220). By style: everyday 133 · literary 12 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 8 664 · legal and administrative 16 614 · UN documents 115 579.

égal

Used about 66 982 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 4 783 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 961 · UN documents ≈ 54 178). Forms: égal, égale, égalité.

• It's perfectly equal!

  C'est parfaitement égal !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by steve and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1521769 #1157549

• The boat scudded thus northward during the whole day, borne on by monstrous waves, preserving always, fortunately, a speed equal to theirs.

  Pendant toute la journée, l'embarcation courut ainsi vers le nord, emportée par les lames monstrueuses, en conservant heureusement une rapidité égale à la leur.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1714

• The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.

  La topaze d’Éthiopie n’est point son égale, Et l’or pur n’entre pas en balance avec elle.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 28:19

• First of all, a partnership of equals.

  D'abord un partenariat d'égal à égal.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1007718

• Equals total (2) in Table 17

  Égal au total (2) du tableau 17

  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 5382349

égaux

Used about 12 395 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 1 354 · legal and administrative ≈ 173 · UN documents ≈ 10 836).

• We're all equal here.

  Nous sommes tous égaux ici.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #6874262 #12096249

• This must take place through a dialogue between equals.

  Cela passe par un dialogue entre égaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411905

• Straight line amortisation: repayment of principal in equal instalments is equivalent to one risk mitigant.

  Un amortissement linéaire: le remboursement du principal en versements égaux équivaut à un facteur d’atténuation des risques.

  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 2972941

• Article 14, paragraph 2, stipulates that all are equal before the law.

  Le paragraphe 2 de l ' article 14 dispose que tous sont égaux devant la loi.

  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 20386155

• All men are created equal.

  Tous les hommes naissent égaux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #51724 #128679

tous

Used about 1 661 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 451 · UN documents ≈ 1 204).

• In a democracy, all citizens have equal rights.

  En démocratie, tous les citoyens ont les mêmes droits.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #322685 #824653

• The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, after all, who will have their turn later on.—“I exist,” murmurs that some one whose name is All.

  La génération qui a actuellement son tour de passage sur la terre n'est pas forcée de l'abréger pour les générations, ses égales après tout, qui auront leur tour plus tard.--J'existe, murmure ce quelqu'un qui se nomme Tous.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26855

• Finally, the EU countries must be placed on an equal footing.

  Il faut enfin veiller à offrir des conditions égales à tous les États de l'Union européenne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 462219

• Every citizen shall have the right of equal access to the public service of his country. "

  Tous les citoyens ont également le droit d ' accéder aux fonctions publiques de leur pays > > . Droit de vote

  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 11756159

• We all grew up believing that everyone is entitled to their opinion, however, some now believe that all opinions are equal.

  Nous avons tous grandi dans la croyance que chacun a droit a son opinion, cependant, certains croient désormais que toutes les opinions se valent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #546830 #563711

More sentences

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

• He is equal to the job.

  Il est à la hauteur de la tâche.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Petro1 · checked, community translation · #290857 #9011

• My boss doesn't think I am equal to the job.

  Mon patron ne pense pas que je sois de taille à faire ce travail.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and lbdx · checked, community translation · #268323 #12196411

• You may write in any language you want. On Tatoeba, all languages are equal.

  Tu es libre d'écrire dans la langue que tu préfères. Sur Tatoeba, toutes les langues sont égales.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #785667 #13565317

Grammar

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