four — English to French

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

What it means: four in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: four (158 482), fours (101). By style: everyday 504 · literary 153 · biblical 277 · parliamentary 7 790 · legal and administrative 12 311 · UN documents 137 548.

quatre

Used about 88 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 476 · literary ≈ 153 · biblical ≈ 261 · parliamentary ≈ 6 721 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 917 · UN documents ≈ 70 207).

• She has four of them.

  Elle en a quatre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #3272694 #3272695

• “And there are four of you?”

  --Et vous êtes quatre?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2864

• The LORD showed me four craftsmen.

  L’Éternel me fit voir quatre forgerons.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 1:20

• I should like to mention four.

  J' en nommerai quatre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 191924

• Four-lined girdled lizard

  Zonosaure à quatre bandes

  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 4251108

fours

Used about 45 113 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 697 · UN documents ≈ 44 417).

• Cap Sicie — Six Fours

  Cap Sicie - Six Fours

  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 1973818

• n Autres fours

  n Fours par voie sèche

  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 7230757

• Cap Sicie — Six Fours

  Cap Sicie – Six Fours

  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 2228301

• n Batteries de fours à coke;

  n Batteries de fours à coke;

  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 7230661

• furnace/oven/kiln manufacturer (“constructeur de fours”),

  constructeur de fours,

  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 1323115

ans

Used about 3 171 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 305 · UN documents ≈ 2 866).

• Europe is creating jobs – 6.5 million over the past four years.

  L’Europe crée des emplois: 6,5 millions en 4 ans.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 663662

• (a) Pre-school (under-fours) for the school year 2006/07:

  i) Le préscolaire (4 à 5 ans) : année scolaire 2006-2007 :

  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 16963384

• A lot has been accomplished since the European Parliament's approval of the report by the late Alexander Langer a little over four years ago.

  Nous avons fait beaucoup de chemin depuis 4 ans, depuis que le Parlement européen a approuvé le rapport de notre regretté collègue, Alexander Langer.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1867162

• The National Wawa Wasi Programme (PNWW) provides integrated services for young children and seeks to meet the need for day care for under-fours, in particular those at risk and living in poverty or extreme poverty.

  Le Programme national des Wawa s ' occupe pleinement de la petite enfance, répondant ainsi aux besoins de prise en charge diurne des enfants âgés de moins de 4 ans, en particulier de ceux en situation de risque et vivant dans la pauvreté ou l ' extrême pauvreté.

  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 13589559

trois

Used about 153 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 153).

• All this can be summed up nowadays in four simple words: the need to learn.

  Je dirais qu' à l' époque actuelle, tout cela peut être résumé en trois mots simples : je dois apprendre, et encore apprendre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291584

More sentences

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

• He will come back at four.

  Il sera de retour à 4 heures.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nrms · checked, community translation · #297100 #1583958

• A cat can carry up to four pounds of spy equipment.

  Un chat peut transporter jusqu'à deux kilogrammes d'équipement d'espionnage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · #12927261 #6461092

• The organization has seventy-four members.

  L'organisation a soixante-quatorze membres.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14032708 #14032709

Grammar

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