floor — English to French

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

What it means: floor in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: floor (42 048), floors (2 010). By style: everyday 379 · literary 51 · biblical 45 · parliamentary 3 480 · legal and administrative 4 736 · UN documents 35 367.

parole

Used about 13 458 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 2 026 · UN documents ≈ 11 421).

• I give you the floor.

  Je te donne la parole.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #9550644 #9549199

• Mr Rübig has the floor.

  La parole est à M. Rübig.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 14145

• I give the floor to the representative of Finland.

  Je donne la parole à la représentante de la Finlande.

  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 16040036

• I give you the floor.

  Je vous donne la parole.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #9550644 #9549197

• Mrs Jackson has the floor.

  La parole est à Mme Jackson.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2048074

étage

Used about 12 546 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 181 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 416 · legal and administrative ≈ 148 · UN documents ≈ 11 789). Forms: étage, étages.

• What floor am I on?

  À quel étage suis-je ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rockaround · checked, community translation · #3413074 #8724910

• On arriving at the first floor, he paused.

  Parvenu au premier étage, il fit une pause.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28363

• He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.

  Il donna cinq coudées de hauteur à chacun des étages qui entouraient toute la maison, et il les lia à la maison par des bois de cèdre.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 6:10

• Those on the first and second floors are affected, but the ones above do have a view.

  Les bureaux situés au premier étage, au deuxième étage et au-dessus ont une vue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1615603

• In the case of standing receptions, the space can accommodate about 300-350 people over the two floors.

  Lors de réceptions en configuration debout, Björtuloft peut recevoir de 300 à 350 personnes réparties sur les deux étages.

  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 5660560

sol

Used about 4 812 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 111 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 312 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 171 · UN documents ≈ 2 210). Forms: sol, sols.

• The floor is uneven.

  Le sol est irrégulier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #4494876 #10779625

• A row of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing could pass under it.

  Un cordon de grosses pierres fixait tout autour ce treillage sur le sol, de manière à ne rien laisser passer.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20847

• He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.

  Il couvrit d’or le sol de la maison, à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 6:30

• We are talking about linoleum floors with these effects.

  Nous parlons ici de sols en linoléum présentant ces effets.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 698093

• Other, for mosaic floors

  autres, pour sols mosaïques

  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 4062362

donne

Used about 368 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 368).

• The distinguished Ambassador of Turkey has the floor.

  Je la donne à l ' Ambassadeur de Turquie.

  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 10377971

je

Used about 173 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 156).

• I'd rather sit on the floor.

  Je préfère m'asseoir par terre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by anthrax26 and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6392563 #6392630

• “Croix-Dieu!” resumed Coppenole, thoroughly unhappy at being obliged to lower his voice thus, “I should like to sit down on the floor, with my legs crossed, like a hosier, as I do in my shop.”

  «Croix-Dieu! reprenait Coppenole tout malheureux d'être obligé de baisser ainsi la voix, l'envie me démange de m'asseoir à terre, jambes croisées, en chaussetier, comme je fais dans ma boutique.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7339

• He said, “If the LORD doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

  Il répondit: Si l’Éternel ne te sauve pas, avec quoi te sauverais-je? Avec le produit de l’aire ou du pressoir?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 6:27

• Madam President, I am very much obliged to Mr Spencer for giving me the floor.

  , président en exercice du Conseil. (NL) Madame le Président, je suis très reconnaissant à Monsieur Spencer de bien vouloir me céder sa place.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728985

• I prefer hardwood floors to carpet.

  Je préfère les parquets à la moquette.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #253306 #11227167

More sentences

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

• Her footsteps fell ponderously on the wooden floor.

  Ses pas tombèrent lourdement sur le plancher de bois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2024729 #2024734

• The floor has to be scrubbed.

  Il faut laver le plancher.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #2268136 #3259245

• The plate slipped from her hand and crashed to the floor.

  L'assiette lui a échappé des mains et s'est écrasée par terre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #244965 #11931962

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