half — English to French

How English half is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: half in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: half (61 738). By style: everyday 462 · literary 131 · biblical 114 · parliamentary 5 894 · legal and administrative 4 867 · UN documents 50 270.

moitié

Used about 28 167 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 202 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 2 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 535 · UN documents ≈ 23 040).

• That's your half.

  C'est votre moitié.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3723662 #5945497

• Half of progress, quasi-right.

  Moitié de progrès; quasi-droit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18099

• and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,

  Derrière ce chœur marchaient Hosée et la moitié des chefs de Juda,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 12:32

• About half my country lies below sea level.

  Pratiquement la moitié des Pays-Bas est située en-dessous du niveau de la mer.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1685180

• 3 More than half the days

  Plus de la moitié du temps

  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 2878649

demi

Used about 14 616 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 183 · literary ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 59 · parliamentary ≈ 2 087 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 724 · UN documents ≈ 10 473). Forms: demi, demie.

• It's half past two.

  Il est deux heures et demie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ergulis and gillux · checked, community translation · #8793074 #8968748

• My pulse beat half-seconds.

  Mon pouls battait des demi-secondes.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3677

• Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

  Alors Josué appela les Rubénites, les Gadites et la demi-tribu de Manassé.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 22:1

• Reportedly no less than four and a half million out of six million inhabitants voted.

  Sur six millions d' habitants, pas moins de quatre millions et demi auraient en effet voté.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 208387

• Carcases and half-carcases

  Carcasses ou demi-carcasses

  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 4386711

moins

Used about 19 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19).

• I can do it in half the time.

  Je peux le faire en deux fois moins de temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #249657 #1347139

• Gas cookers consume half the amount of energy as electric cookers.

  Les cuisinières à gaz consomment deux fois moins d'énergie que les cuisinières électriques.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gulliver and Cocorico · checked, community translation · #2313834 #2313551

More sentences

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

• Tom ran outside half-naked.

  Tom courut dehors torse nu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and tras · checked, community translation · #7117358 #7242681

• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Rien, à part une bataille perdue, ne peut être aussi mélancolique qu’une bataille gagnée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Rovo · checked, community translation · #13057609 #13057611

• Cut it in half.

  Coupe-le en deux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #41774 #12431

Grammar

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