head — English to French

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

What it means: head in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: head (84 001), heads (56 560). By style: everyday 642 · literary 307 · biblical 487 · parliamentary 5 894 · legal and administrative 15 334 · UN documents 117 897.

chef

Used about 75 066 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 137 · parliamentary ≈ 2 579 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 792 · UN documents ≈ 67 545). Forms: chef, chefs.

• He is at the head of the class.

  C'est le chef de classe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #291107 #138879

• Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.

  Jeuts, Schocja et Mirma. Ce sont là ses fils, chefs de famille.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:10

• I cannot remember who gave the example of the head cook.

  J'ignore qui a utilisé l'exemple du chef-coq.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1691224

• Head of unit or equivalent

  Chef d'unité ou équivalent

  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 3024526

• Head of Supreme Court

  Chef de la Cour suprême

  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 8973496

tête

Used about 12 235 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 388 · literary ≈ 289 · biblical ≈ 269 · parliamentary ≈ 737 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 868 · UN documents ≈ 3 684). Forms: tête, têtes.

• I have a sore head.

  J'ai mal à la tête.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sctld and Pharamp · checked, community translation · #757368 #129589

• Axel! a human head!"

  Axel! une tête humaine!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3360

• But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

  Et même les cheveux de votre tête sont tous comptés.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:30

• We cannot pursue this head-in-the-sand policy.

  Nous ne pouvons poursuivre cette politique de la tête dans le sable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1027253

• Amount (EUR) per head

  Montant en euros par tête

  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 462269

état

Used about 123 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 123).

• The head of state of Canada is Her Majesty the Queen, who is also the head of state of Australia.

  Le chef d' État du Canada est Sa Majesté la Reine qui est également chef d' État de l' Australie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 62133

• This is pure hypocrisy and is aimed at ushering in a new 'superstate' over the heads of the peoples.

  Ceci n'est que pure hypocrisie et a pour objectif d'introduire un nouveau "super-État" sur le dos des gens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037932

gouvernement

Used about 61 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 61).

• Moreover, I hope that the newly appointed head of the transitional government in Libya will soon be visiting us here in Europe.

  De plus, j'espère que le nouveau chef du gouvernement transitoire en Libye nous rendra bientôt visite ici en Europe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1521115

More sentences

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

• He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found the head and source of all your son’s distemper.

  Il prétend, ma chère Gertrude, avoir trouvé le principe et la source du dérangement de votre fils.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #1172028 #1172030

• I cooled the patient's head with ice.

  J'ai rafraîchi le patient avec de la glace.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Swift · checked, community translation · #318476 #15756

• He often says whatever comes into his head.

  Il parle souvent à tort et à travers.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Ankio · checked, community translation · #13807333 #3367574

Grammar

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