hand — English to French

How English hand is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: hand in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: hand (73 505), hands (17 578). By style: everyday 1 456 · literary 411 · biblical 1 545 · parliamentary 15 917 · legal and administrative 10 521 · UN documents 61 233.

mains

Used about 28 749 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 168 · literary ≈ 355 · biblical ≈ 1 191 · parliamentary ≈ 6 632 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 370 · UN documents ≈ 14 033). Forms: main, mains.

• He raised his hands.

  Il leva les mains.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #513534 #6465507

• He loosed her hands.

  Il dégagea ses mains.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30932

• For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

  Il fait la plaie, et il la bande; Il blesse, et sa main guérit.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 5:18

• We all have the future in our hands.

  Notre avenir est entre nos mains.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1771604

• Access steps and hand-holds;

  marchepieds et mains courantes;

  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 5540210

autre

Used about 5 946 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 2 487 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 3 189).

• Raise your hands if you need another copy.

  Faites signe si vous avez besoin d'une autre copie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13974250 #13974252

• On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume.

  D'un côté des miasmes, de l'autre un ineffable parfum.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12550

• Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

  Avec lui furent crucifiés deux brigands, l’un à sa droite, et l’autre à sa gauche.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 27:38

• On the other hand, they must not (all) be left to go bankrupt, either.

  D'un autre côté, il ne faut pas non plus (toutes) les laisser aller à la faillite.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1233718

• When a company assumes a risk, it should be able, on the one hand, to control the risks [169] and, on the other hand, to financially assume such a risk [170].

  Lorsqu'une entreprise prend un risque, elle doit d'une part pouvoir contrôler les risques [169] et, d'autre part, pouvoir assumer financièrement un tel risque [170].

  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 4160285

More sentences

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

• What you're saying is interesting but hardly germane to the topic at hand.

  Ce que tu dis est intéressant mais se rapporte à peine au sujet dont il est question.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1127428 #1128973

• Second-hand smoke can cause fatal lung cancer and heart disease among people who have never themselves smoked.

  Le fumée secondaire peut provoquer un cancer du poumon et des maladies du cœur mortels chez les personnes qui n’ont jamais fumé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · #13478961 #13478960

• No, it's second hand.

  Non, il est d'occasion.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #36318 #919219

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