express — English to French

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

What it means: express in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: express (56 401), expresses (38 107). By style: everyday 113 · literary 14 · parliamentary 9 583 · legal and administrative 2 721 · UN documents 82 077.

exprime

Used about 29 553 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 5 091 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 304 · UN documents ≈ 23 084). Forms: exprime, exprimer.

• Express your idea clearly.

  Exprime ton idée clairement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #17169 #9017

• The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world.

  Le gamin exprime Paris, et Paris exprime le monde.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12793

• The modelling of the CFSP expresses that reality very well.

  Le modelage de la PESC exprime bien cette réalité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728996

• Express the result as a percentage of the sample.

  Exprimer le résultat sous forme de pourcentage de l'échantillon.

  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 1802234

• The council expresses the pupils ' views and raises matters for discussion.

  Le conseil exprime les vues des élèves et soulève des questions aux fins de discussion.

  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 4949335

je

Used about 4 823 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 398 · UN documents ≈ 3 420).

• I didn't know how to express myself.

  Je fus à court de mots.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Cocorico · checked, community translation · #257291 #6563

• I made a movement intended to express resignation.

  Je fis le geste d'un homme résigné à tout.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3325

• I think Amendment No 53 expresses this very appropriately.

  Je pense que l'amendement 53 est une formulation très appropriée à ce sujet.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 425081

• I had not planned to speak today, but I would like to express a few points.

  Je n ' avais pas l ' intention de prendre la parole aujourd ' hui mais je voudrais faire quelques observations.

  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 20492161

• I don't know how to express my thanks.

  Je ne sais pas comment vous remercier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #21049 #9379

express

Used about 3 164 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 100 · legal and administrative ≈ 482 · UN documents ≈ 2 565).

• Are there any express trains?

  Y a-t-il des trains express ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #19607 #575040

• Not even the Orient Express has room to manoeuvre in there.

  Pas même l’Orient Express n’a de place pour manœuvrer à l’intérieur de ce tunnel.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 629446

• A Postal and express consignments

  A Envois postaux et express

  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 1066503

• This nevertheless raised the question of why there was no express option regarding evacuation by the security forces.

  This nevertheless raised the question of why there was no express option regarding evacuation by the security forces.

  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 9331171

• Please send it by express mail.

  S'il te plaît, envoie-le par courrier express.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · #274520 #2058844

More sentences

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

• The two poems express human suffering.

  Les deux poèmes expriment la souffrance humaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #556757 #459949

• Express yourself as clearly as possible.

  Exprimez-vous le plus clairement possible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cindrogriza and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #817970 #12686

• New technologies are being developed that will be able to control how genes express themselves.

  De nouvelles technologies sont développées qui permettront de contrôler la manière dont les gènes s'expriment.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #956236 #956282

Grammar

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