gentlemen — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: gentlemen (29 417). By style: everyday 29 · literary 22 · parliamentary 29 066 · legal and administrative 9 · UN documents 291.

messieurs

Used about 19 425 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 19 377 · UN documents ≈ 6).

• Gentlemen, start your engines.

  Messieurs, démarrez vos moteurs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and Clavain · checked, community translation · #431628 #431629

• “That cannot be, gentlemen.”

  --Messieurs, cela ne se peut pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24192

• Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes the votes.

  Mesdames et Messieurs, l'heure des votes est close.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 423121

• Let us show these peoples that the diplomats of 1997 are not a club of ladies and gentlemen with little work who wander through the halls of this building.

  Montrons à nos peuples que les diplomates de 1997 ne sont pas un club de dames et de messieurs peu occupés, qui errent dans les couloirs de cet édifice.

  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 3532493

• Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

  Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fanty and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1597893 #1598006

chers

Used about 9 695 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 9 689 · UN documents ≈ 6).

• Ladies and gentlemen, the survival of European fisheries is non-negotiable.

  Mes chers collègues, la survie de la pêche européenne n'est pas négociable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1404078

• My dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, today is 2 July 2009.

  Chers collègues, nous sommes aujourd ' hui le 2 juillet 2009.

  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 20497195

• Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first let me turn to the positive aspects.

  Monsieur le Président, Madame le Commissaire, chers collègues, je veux mettre en avant le côté positif des choses.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1995556

• Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Schnellhardt, I think that you are all wrong.

  Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, mes chers collègues, Monsieur Schnellhardt, je crois que vous avez tout faux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1961875

• My second point is that in Recital B, read it ladies and gentlemen, Western forces are forces of occupation.

  Le deuxième point: dans le considérant B, lisez-le mes chers collègues, les forces occidentales sont des forces d'occupation.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1462977

mesdames

Used about 164 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 164).

• Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

  Merci, Mesdames et Messieurs.

  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 233121

• Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,

  Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs,

  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 23171071

• Ladies and Gentlemen Presiding Officers,

  Mesdames, Messieurs les membres des bureaux,

  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 18734833

• No, do not be afraid, ladies and gentlemen.

  Non, ne craignez rien, Mesdames et Messieurs.

  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 2314516

• Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen,

  Excellences Mesdames et Messieurs les Ambassadeurs,

  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 12552588

monsieur

Used about 1 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1).

• He is a gentleman among gentlemen.

  C'est un monsieur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1276667 #1278286

More sentences

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

• Please be seated, ladies and gentlemen.

  Que tout le monde s'assoie, je vous prie !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #38531 #12818

• We're gentlemen.

  Nous sommes des gentilshommes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2240991 #4543046

• Gentlemen first.

  Priorité au gentilshommes !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #269710 #8602994

Grammar

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