forty — English to French

How English forty is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: forty in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: forties (39), forty (70 750). By style: everyday 107 · literary 35 · biblical 147 · parliamentary 419 · legal and administrative 92 · UN documents 69 989.

quarante

Used about 38 369 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 144 · parliamentary ≈ 269 · legal and administrative ≈ 79 · UN documents ≈ 37 757).

• I'm forty years old.

  J'ai quarante ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Eldad · checked, community translation · #1045540 #1045539

• “That makes forty francs.”

  --Cela fait quarante francs.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4082

• The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.

  les fils de Bani, six cent quarante-deux;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 2:10

• Are there forty colleagues who will stand up?

  Y a-t-il quarante collègues qui se lèvent?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1117914

• PL: Foreign participation is limited to forty nine percent.

  PL: La participation étrangère est limitée à quarante-neuf pour cent.

  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 377954

ans

Used about 8 340 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 8 288).

• He must be about forty.

  Il doit avoir environ 40 ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · #288559 #130622

• Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.

  Thénardier venait de dépasser ses cinquante ans; madame Thénardier touchait à la quarantaine, qui est la cinquantaine de la femme; de façon qu'il y avait équilibre d'âge entre la femme et le mari.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8052

• Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.

  Saül était âgé de… ans, lorsqu’il devint roi, et il avait déjà régné deux ans sur Israël.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 13:1

• It has all been said before. One hundred and forty-six ships have gone to the bottom in ten years.

  Nous l' avons déjà dit : 146 navires ont fait naufrage en dix ans.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151968

• The ensuing decommissioning period can last forty years, with funds to be set aside for the shutdown of the installation.

  La période de déclassement qui s'ensuit peut durer 40 ans, des fonds devant être mis de côté pour la fermeture de l'installation.

  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 3485134

session

Used about 6 446 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 6 446).

• for the one-hundred-and-forty-seventh session of the World Forum,

  de la cent quaranteseptième session du Forum mondial, qui s ' ouvrira

  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 19152632

• I. Provisional agenda for the forty-eighth session of the Trade and

  I. Ordre du jour provisoire de la quarantehuitième session du Conseil du commerce

  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 8423617

• PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR THE FORTY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD

  ORDRE DU JOUR PROVISOIRE DE LA QUARANTEHUITIÈME SESSION DU CONSEIL DU COMMERCE ET DU DÉVELOPPEMENT

  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 8423796

• At its forty-first session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted the following decision

  At its forty-first session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted the following decision

  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 21179331

• The Council will have before it the report of the Commission for Social Development on its forty-first session (New York, 10-21 February 2003).

  Le Conseil sera saisi du rapport de la Commission du développement social sur les travaux de sa quarantième et unième session (New York, 10-21 février 2003).

  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 10580457

sa

Used about 921 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 921).

• An Israeli civilian, a man in his forties, was killed after a mortar shell hit his home in Kibbutz Kfar Aaza.

  Un civil israélien quadragénaire a été tué après qu ' un obus de mortier eut atteint sa maison dans le kibboutz Kfar Aaza.

  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 17966109

More sentences

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

• This class consists of forty pupils.

  Cette classe comprend 40 élèves.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and qdii · checked, community translation · #61184 #598468

• He is past forty.

  Il a passé la quarantaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lugal · checked, community translation · #288563 #130623

• Forty euros for a scarf? You don't have anything cheaper?

  40 euros pour une écharpe ? Vous n'avez rien de moins cher ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and qdii · checked, community translation · #960765 #587008

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