fifth — English to French

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

What it means: fifth in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fifth (135 507), fifths (669). By style: everyday 52 · literary 11 · biblical 54 · parliamentary 1 672 · legal and administrative 2 304 · UN documents 132 083.

cinquième

Used about 116 273 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 41 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 54 · parliamentary ≈ 1 428 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 920 · UN documents ≈ 112 821). Forms: cinquième, cinquièmes.

• He came fifth in the race.

  Il est arrivé cinquième de la course.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11205412 #12437731

• The fifth man was saved.

  Le cinquième homme était sauvé.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25743

• Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

  Nocha le quatrième, et Rapha le cinquième.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:2

• That was the motive behind the four fifths.

  C’était cela le motif à l’origine du concept des quatre cinquièmes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 819349

• ≤ two fifths of the ML

  ≤ deux cinquièmes de la TM

  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 3973911

quatre

Used about 2 752 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 752).

• Four claimants in the twenty-fifth instalment submitted claims for other losses aggregating KWD 57,737 (approximately USD 199,782).

  66. Quatre requérants de la vingtcinquième tranche ont demandé à être indemnisés d ' autres pertes, pour un montant total de KWD 57 737 (environ USD 199 782).

  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 11060507

• The Department of teacher education continues to attract a four-fifths majority female enrollment, and a 20-23% percentage of male enrollments.

  Le département de pédagogie continue d ' attirer une majorité de jeunes femmes (quatre étudiantes sur cinq), les inscriptions masculines représentant de 20 à 23 %.

  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 11943628

plus

Used about 1 377 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 376).

• In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty.

  En 1815, nous croyons l'avoir dit, il atteignit soixante-quinze ans, mais il n'en paraissait pas avoir plus de soixante.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1155

• There are 28 activities reported under this programme area, about three fifths of which are collaborative, or at least being synchronized with the programmes of other agencies.

  On compte 28 activités dans ce domaine, dont plus de la moitié menées en collaboration avec d ' autres organismes ou tout au moins synchronisées avec leurs programmes.

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commission

Used about 1 376 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 376).

• According to a 1998 report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, four fifths

  According to a 1998 report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, four fifths

  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 10740926

majorité

Used about 76 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 52 · legal and administrative ≈ 24).

• Tomorrow the Czech Senate will vote on the Treaty, with a three-fifths majority required.

  Demain, le sénat tchèque procèdera au vote sur le traité, à la majorité des trois quarts.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1263240

• Parliament shall act by a majority of its component Members and three-fifths of the votes cast.

  Le Parlement statue à la majorité des membres qui le composent et des 3/5 des suffrages exprimés.

  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 625362

• This means that we reach an agreement on the basis of the last sentence of Article 203(9) of the EC Treaty, which states, in connection with the maximum rate of increase, that 'another rate may be fixed by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, and the European Parliament, acting by a majority of its members and three-fifths of the votes cast'.

  Cela signifie que nous nous mettons d'accord selon l'article 203, paragraphe 9, dernier alinéa. Je cite: «le Conseil, statuant à la majorité qualifiée, et le Parlement européen, statuant à la majorité des membres qui le composent» et ce, en rapport avec la question du taux maximal.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998461

• However, in this particular context and situation, it goes without saying, Commissioner, that if any wrong signal is sent out, it could have very serious consequences for the security of the European Union, especially when the governing party does not have the three-fifths majority it needs in parliament in order to modify the constitution; such a signal could seriously give rise to alarming turmoil in an already unstable country that is a strategic partner for the West, in the context of the Atlantic Alliance.

  Dans ce contexte particulier cependant, il va sans dire, Monsieur le Commissaire, que si nous envoyons un mauvais signal, ce signal pourrait avoir des conséquences très graves pour la sécurité de l'Union européenne, surtout lorsque le parti au gouvernement ne dispose pas de la majorité de 60 % dont il a besoin au parlement pour pouvoir modifier la Constitution. Ce signal risquerait de perturber dangereusement un pays déjà instable qui est un partenaire stratégique de l'Occident dans le cadre de l'Alliance atlantique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1338645

More sentences

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

• Today is the fifth of March.

  Aujourd'hui, nous sommes le cinq mars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by maizewen and Petrus · checked, community translation · #4466777 #4470930

• Take the lift to the fifth floor.

  Prenez l'ascenseur jusqu'au 5e étage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and dominiko · checked, community translation · #12758090 #10094

• Christmas is celebrated on December twenty-fifth.

  Noël est célébré le vingt-cinq décembre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9373487 #9497399

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