figure — English to French

How English figure is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: figure in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: figure (63 165), figures (42 478). By style: everyday 228 · literary 32 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 6 237 · legal and administrative 13 051 · UN documents 86 088.

chiffres

Used about 37 616 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 56 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 638 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 118 · UN documents ≈ 27 799). Forms: chiffre, chiffres.

• These figures are inaccurate.

  Ces chiffres sont erronés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6862493 #6861030

• "Yes, or figures are of no use."

  —Oui, ou les chiffres ne sont plus les chiffres!»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1621

• These are horrific figures.

  Ces chiffres sont effroyables.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 771457

• Report figure from C 72.00; r230; c040.

  Indiquer le chiffre de la cellule C 72.00; r230; c040.

  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 5174462

• a Figures apply to the European part of the country.

  a Les chiffres concernent la partie européenne du pays.

  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 26290059

figure

Used about 30 378 times in the texts (literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 65 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 399 · UN documents ≈ 26 903).

• This figure was coming towards him.

  Cette figure venait de son côté.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8920

• lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  de peur que vous ne vous corrompiez et que vous ne vous fassiez une image taillée, une représentation de quelque idole, la figure d’un homme ou d’une femme,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 4:16

• Why does a former hero of a nation, the father figure of a struggle for independence, now allow the use of violence simply to underpin his own authority?

  Pourquoi l'ancien héros du peuple, la figure emblématique de la lutte pour l'indépendance, permet-il maintenant le recours à la violence uniquement pour renforcer son propre pouvoir ?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 69937

• Figure 23: Full flow opacimeter

  Figure 23 - Opacimètre à flux total LS CL LD CL EP OPL

  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 5422900

• Figure 11, the note, amend to read:

  Figure 11, note, modifier comme suit:

  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 24791037

More sentences

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

• I just can't figure it out.

  Je n'arrive simplement pas à le comprendre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1553468 #1804506

• Tom is a very controversial figure.

  Tom est un personnage très controversé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #9670268 #9671498

• I can't figure out what he means.

  Je n'arrive pas à comprendre ce qu'il veut dire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #38379 #10900962

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